http://www.moop.org.uk/2017-02-06T20:57:00+00:002017-02-06T20:57:00+00:002017-02-06T20:57:00+00:00mooptag:www.moop.org.uk,2017-02-06:/new-site.html

<p>You may noticee that this site now looks completely different.</p> <p>I decided that I was bored of paying for an AWS instance to host WordPress, and restarting PHP when it crashed, and so on. I also got tired of the massive stall when my tiny AWS instance struggled to create …</p>

<p>You may noticee that this site now looks completely different.</p> <p>I decided that I was bored of paying for an AWS instance to host WordPress, and restarting PHP when it crashed, and so on. I also got tired of the massive stall when my tiny AWS instance struggled to create a new post.</p> <p>I've been thinking about writing my own static site generator for a while, but I didn't want to commit the time to it when there are more interesting projects and it's something that's been done before.</p> <p>After a bit of research I decided I'd try out Pelican. I'm a fan of Python anyway so I'm right at home editing the config files and I know what I'm doing if I need to make any tweaks. I've played with reStructuredText when writing documentation at work so I know the appropriate syntax for writing content too.</p> <p>Even better it supports importing from WordPress. I did have to make a few tweaks to remove some markup that didn't convert correctly. Fortunately that was a one off job and it became trivial with the aid of some simple vim macros.</p> <p>There are probably a few more issues I need to sort out but I'm happy enough with the current state of the site that I've switched it over to the Pelican version.</p> <p>There's no commenting supported yet. I might bring over the archived comments at some point by appending them to the appropriate posts. If I decide to enable comments again I'll probably try out Disqus unless I find a better alternative.</p> <p>I'm currently hosting this on GitHub pages. We'll see how that pans out, but I like git and it's free, so seems like a winner so far!</p> <p>I realise that I've namechecked a bunch of marmite software that will make some developers howl with joy and others with rage. Maybe it's for the best that there is no comment system yet!</p> 2012-12-22T19:01:00+00:002012-12-22T19:01:00+00:00mooptag:www.moop.org.uk,2012-12-22:/about.html<p>Hi, I'm moop and I have a habit of making things.</p> <p>Hopefully this will turn into a place to write about them, instead of resigning them to the back of a cupboard.</p>