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That said if you’d like to hang around a while and see what’s here, feel free. But be warned, I’m pretty damn good at wasting other people’s time as well as my own. Also, without the burden of an editor, I take far too many words to describe anything at all. | That said if you’d like to hang around a while and see what’s here, feel free. But be warned, I’m pretty damn good at wasting other people’s time as well as my own. Also, without the burden of an editor, I take far too many words to describe anything at all. | ||
As this is, at least, the 27<sup>th</sup> version of a personal website for me. Several years ago I gave up writing the website by had and switched to using [[mediawikiwiki:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]]. It's the underlying engine for [https://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] and proves a sufficiently robust [[wikipedia:Content_management_system|content management system]] for my needs. It's not perfect, for instance hierarchical content is more difficult than it might be, but it's good enough and require nearly zero maintenance on my part since my hosting service automatically upgrades the core software and PHP as stable versions are released. they also back up the MySQL database daily which is nice. Not that I rest on that. I do a full backup myself and store it locally vaguely once a month or when I have added a lot of content. | |||
This particular instance is a restart (begun Feb 2020) of the last attempt to use [[wikipedia:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] that imploded when my host updated PHP in some weird way that broke the site. It's original goal was to provide an online presence for my [[Woodworking|woodworking projects]] and my research into [[Hand Tool Research|pre-industrial woodworking tools]] and furniture. And, it still does that but I've expanded the scope to hold more of my research material, web scrapings and other stuff. | |||
[[File:HeddaAndRigoSnow.jpg|350px|right|Hedda & Rigo (Jan 2016)]] | |||
I' | It's a pain to maintain several different repositories of information and I used to keep everything in [https://evernote.com/ Evernote] and Word and just use the site for "publishing", but I'm on the site everyday anyway (there are non-public pages), so why not move all that to here? Making it more accessible and available. Evernote recently (Dec 2020) released a completely new client and it sucks bad. Which is unfortunate since I've been a premium member for 10 years. It was one of the first services I thought was worth going premium and while it had it's warts, it's been fine. But now I am moving off of it. The new client doesn't have some features I find critical and unlike other features that are getting rebuilt in the new framework, my stuff won't be. So, Good Stuff, material that's stood the test of time will get moved here and the stuff I am actively researching or is low stakes is going into [https://www.onenote.com/ OneNote]. It also have a few idiosyncrasies, but we use it at work and I have it via my home Office 365 and it allows me to work on notebooks from both accounts at the same time which is very nice.[[File:HeddaAndRigoSnow.jpg|350px|right|Hedda & Rigo (Jan 2016)]]You may recognize the site's mascot in the logo area. That's Hedda, my Siberian Husky, and constant companion. I have probably 1000s of pictures of her and our other dogs Sasha and Rigo. You'll see more of them scattered about. She's a great dog and is quick to alert me when my blood sugar needs looking after before I choke some fool that needs choking. | ||
I've added some writing projects as I complete them or migrate them. I used to have a daily(ish) blog, but who has time for that crap anymore? Plus I don't have something interesting to say every day. Some would say hardly ever. Some of my articles are short and I had been posting them on Facebook. But some are rather long for that short attention span theater. So I will dump them here, I have a lot of disk space. | |||
I used to have the sort of job that left me lots of time to craft webpages in the name of "research". Alas, no more. A wiki isn't the best content management system, but it's fast and easy (for me). | I used to have the sort of job that left me lots of time to craft webpages in the name of "research". Alas, no more. A wiki isn't the best content management system, but it's fast and easy (for me). | ||
Revision as of 08:45, 8 January 2021
If you’re here, you must be seriously lost. I’m sorry for your misfortune.
That said if you’d like to hang around a while and see what’s here, feel free. But be warned, I’m pretty damn good at wasting other people’s time as well as my own. Also, without the burden of an editor, I take far too many words to describe anything at all.
As this is, at least, the 27th version of a personal website for me. Several years ago I gave up writing the website by had and switched to using MediaWiki. It's the underlying engine for Wikipedia and proves a sufficiently robust content management system for my needs. It's not perfect, for instance hierarchical content is more difficult than it might be, but it's good enough and require nearly zero maintenance on my part since my hosting service automatically upgrades the core software and PHP as stable versions are released. they also back up the MySQL database daily which is nice. Not that I rest on that. I do a full backup myself and store it locally vaguely once a month or when I have added a lot of content.
This particular instance is a restart (begun Feb 2020) of the last attempt to use MediaWiki that imploded when my host updated PHP in some weird way that broke the site. It's original goal was to provide an online presence for my woodworking projects and my research into pre-industrial woodworking tools and furniture. And, it still does that but I've expanded the scope to hold more of my research material, web scrapings and other stuff.
It's a pain to maintain several different repositories of information and I used to keep everything in Evernote and Word and just use the site for "publishing", but I'm on the site everyday anyway (there are non-public pages), so why not move all that to here? Making it more accessible and available. Evernote recently (Dec 2020) released a completely new client and it sucks bad. Which is unfortunate since I've been a premium member for 10 years. It was one of the first services I thought was worth going premium and while it had it's warts, it's been fine. But now I am moving off of it. The new client doesn't have some features I find critical and unlike other features that are getting rebuilt in the new framework, my stuff won't be. So, Good Stuff, material that's stood the test of time will get moved here and the stuff I am actively researching or is low stakes is going into OneNote. It also have a few idiosyncrasies, but we use it at work and I have it via my home Office 365 and it allows me to work on notebooks from both accounts at the same time which is very nice.
You may recognize the site's mascot in the logo area. That's Hedda, my Siberian Husky, and constant companion. I have probably 1000s of pictures of her and our other dogs Sasha and Rigo. You'll see more of them scattered about. She's a great dog and is quick to alert me when my blood sugar needs looking after before I choke some fool that needs choking.
I've added some writing projects as I complete them or migrate them. I used to have a daily(ish) blog, but who has time for that crap anymore? Plus I don't have something interesting to say every day. Some would say hardly ever. Some of my articles are short and I had been posting them on Facebook. But some are rather long for that short attention span theater. So I will dump them here, I have a lot of disk space.
I used to have the sort of job that left me lots of time to craft webpages in the name of "research". Alas, no more. A wiki isn't the best content management system, but it's fast and easy (for me).
