There have been changes. I’ve alluded to some, but I don’t think I’ve fully described others. So here’s the breakdown of how this shitpile is currently being handled.

I’ve moved away from Jekyll since the number of posts and my template had bogged down site generation to the point of being virtually impossible to update any longer. The limitations of the Ruby language become painfully evident with maintaining a reasonably sized Jekyll blog. The stop after that was Hugo. A static site generator similar to Jekyll but written in the quite-quick language “Go”. So far it’s been an excellent utility. There have been some growing pains having migrated to Hugo relatively early in the Hugo development process. There have been broken things that have required bandages along the way. I still have no regrets.

I know I’m really bad for claiming I’m going to do things and then not following through with actually creating the content and posting it up here. This goddamn blog has been around since 2007 in various forms, and 90% of the shit I write winds up being broken promises. I realize this. I get it. But this time I’m going to make a claim and I’m going to do what I need to in order to back it up, because I feel pretty strongly about it.

I do far less with this damn thing than I either expected or wanted to do with it, and my work/life balance is really one of the largest contributors. Even beyond that I frequently find myself choosing to vegetate with Disgaea 5 on the switch, grinding away at maxing out character classes and beefing up stats rather than writing a thoughtful post or describing some tech hurdle I’ve recently overcome. It’s whatever. At some point I’m sure I’ll have a day or two off where I find myself saying, “This is a perfect opportunity to draft up {x} thing I’ve been wanting to document”. Or maybe try something new. I dunno. It’s whatever. I complain about my work/life balance, but I also don’t do anything to change it. I’m not slowing down by picking a less intensive career path or low-energy job.

This is more of a ping than anything. Not that I really need to ping anyone or anything. Figured I’d let you know I still breathe. I’m still around, I’m still cooking up things to contribute, despite my complete lack of available time in which to do it. I have kids, I have gainful employment, and I have a significant other, so don’t expect much in the way of me contributing to this blog. Not that I’ve ever continually contributed to this damn thing at any point- I’ve mostly excised bits of my brain and shat them into text, all for you to analyze and use as needed.