Publishing

My first real computer was an Atari 600XL. I usually tell people it was an 800, so I don’t have to explain the difference between models. With the 600XL I got a whopping 16 KB of RAM, a Centipede cartridge, and a previous-generation Atari 410 tape drive. That tape drive was the bane of my childhood. It ate tapes, the sort of low-quality cassettes that a 10-year-old boy could afford, always purchased in 10-packs at Radio Shack. The most devastating loss was when the drive destroyed my last copy of a horizontal scroller I’d written, along with every sprite I’d drawn for it. From those experiences, I learned to save each program I wrote several times, on multiple tapes when I had spares. It was never enough....

This is the 42nd version of my personal website and weblog, once again self-hosted at Dreamhost. I use the site as a forcing function; a way to learn various languages and tools, and a kick to get back into the habit of writing and publishing. This year I ported the content from Write.as to a self-hosted Hugo setup, which took about a day. Everything about Hugo has been better than expected, and the only hiccup was on the hosting side (SSL setup was broken for a few hours)....

This is the 40th evolution of warpedvisions.org. It’s now running on WriteFreely, hosted by Write.as. WriteFreely is a minimalist writing platform built on Go, LESS, and plain old vanilla Javascript. It’s a speedy platform that feels nice to write in. This is also the 40th Warped theme. Not all 40 versions made the light of day, mind you, but I’ve hacked together all of these themes as a sort of playground of tech and design approaches. The process of building out a theme for a platform tells you a lot about the platform....