This weekend I converted my old blog c0t0d0s0.org and blog.moellenkamp.org into a Jekyll-based version. The nice thing about Jekyll is that you create a fully static version of your website. So no MySQL, no PHP, no scripts. This should allow me to keep the content of both blogs online without much maintenance.
Why do I still invest time in that and didn’t just put the site down? The content is still accessed on a frequent schedule as many things are still useful and current in regard to Solaris. As I didn’t want to go through 7000 articles, I just brought everything online again that wasn’t in draft (which I used to remove some stuff from visibility which is from a different time). So a lot of old stuff got republished as well. In the end, essentially it’s the same content that was on c0t0d0s0.org since 2010.
A few points of order:
- I’m aware that my approach to migrate probably broke a lot of links out there, but today content is just a Google search away. Perhaps I will restore that as soon as I find a low-maintenance way to do it.
- The process to migrate everything into Markdown was done by a script. I checked some files but at over 7000 entries I can’t check all of them. So if a page is absolutely unreadable, please drop me a line. My mail address for this is migrationsnafus@joerg.moellenkamp.org
- The layout may change in the coming weeks. Probably not.
- blog.moellenkamp.org is now deprecated, but the domain will work. The content of blog.moellenkamp.org has been folded into c0t0d0s0.org.
- I would like to thank sys_adm_ama and isotopp for their discussion about a new blog framework. The idea to use Jekyll is from their Twitter discussion.