THOK.ORG finally ground to a halt - the last post here that wasn't
either part of the clawback of my blogspot blog or meta-bloggery about
blog tool making was in 2010 (a rant that coined the term
career_limiting_memcpy which sadly failed to catch on.) It's not
that I haven't had time to write, or things to write (I churned out two
other tumblr blogs in between, for a while, solely because I could
write in markdown and post from my phone both of which were far
less friction than the state I'd gotten stuck in with my own code.)
All of this finally came to a head in October 2013, which I christened
"ThokTober" with the intent of spending a month picking up some
existing blogging tool and running with it. As integration projects
are wont to do, this dragged on to early December, at which point I
settled on ikiwiki (and I do mean "settled" - I really though I'd
end up with nikola what with python vs. perl, vastly more plugins
and features, and bigger dev community... and I may yet go back to it,
but ikiwiki ended up with far less friction in terms of actually
getting sites up and "good enough".)
There will be some loose ends for a while (part of the transition involves semi-automatically converting my ad-hoc markup to proper Markdown, and I still don't really know what I'm going to do with the existing RSS) but if I get one new non-meta post up before Christmas I'll finally declare victory :)