A few years ago, I re-started my old habit of blogging. A bunch. I got into the habit of having three blogs per week. One on an old domain focused on a passion of mine: sustainability, not choking humanity out with fumes and technology around it. I also had one on another random passion I've had, video games and their intersection both with technology broadly as well as society. And a more personal one.

It got a bit too much, so I suddenly stopped posting to the sustainability one and allowed the domain to expire. And as much as I love games, I don't love writing about them. I'm not reviewing them, nor do I even play that much to warrant a regularly scheduled post about them or the tech around them.

My more personal one, hosted on this very domain, actually had decent traction. But a few months ago I got a new laptop and the self-built Gatsby site hosted on Netlify broke, because everything on the new laptop was new, while the site was regularly running on slightly older repositories or libraries. And it was running into a myriad of GraphQL errors, which I have neither the patience nor experience to want to fix.

Moreover, the old one was wholly reliant on my using Obsidian on my laptop. If I were traveling or without my personal laptop for any period of time, the site was going to be update-less. Which is why I switched from weekly to monthly posts at certain times.

And so I've given up. The old site will site on old.kd.ie, still available as a sort-of archive (though at the time of writing, I need to update the URL structure in the yaml). I've now embraced Ghost CMS as a platform. Not only because it's not self-hosted, and thus someone else's problem if something goes wrong. But it's also just sitting ethereally online. I can login on many devices. Manage things when not at home. And I can pull every post or update the theme in my own way because it's developer-friendly.

So, we are so back.

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