IT'S OVER 9000!!!!!
(I only get to do this once.)
(Vanity update 10/31/22:
I don't think I've tried very hard over the past 2-and-something years for karma but here we are.)
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Blog rewrite notes - postponement?
As mentioned in the first post, this blog was running on some pretty ancient infrastructure... well over the past couple of nights I finally decided to do something about it.The first thing to go was the old Ubuntu 14. Instead of creating a new image on say Ubuntu 20, though, I went with my favorite OS (and the one I use for my PC): Gentoo. Some time ago I remember trying to build my own Gentoo on EC2 with some tooling, but it didn't work. In the end this time I went with an unofficial image.
As usual be careful of your trust tolerances -- I don't know anything about this group other than they've been around offering this thing for years. I spun up a new instance and poked around, it really is quite minimal (excellent!) and nothing crazy jumped out.
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Blog rewrite notes - serving the front-end
Last time I wrapped up the actions that the server needs to support. This time I want to write a bit about how I ultimately want to render the front-end...Starting with how it currently renders, it's done in a rather classic server-side rendering way. I have several "template" files that organize the site content, and each request is handled by applying some template to the dynamic content and sending down the HTML with no further interactions needed.
I'd like to keep everything as noscript friendly as it is. I really dislike the direction modern sites have gone of needing JS for everything, even if there are advantages depending on the tradeoffs you want to make. (Headless CMS is increasingly popular for instance.)
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Signs of Fear Driven Development
Note this is sort of a draft/WIP post... I intend to update this sporadically as I notice or re-notice new signs and perhaps rewrite in a more organized manner one day. If you're skimming, the signs are in bold text.I've written a bit about FDD before but it's probably worth calling out separately and compiling a list of signs you, your team, or your company may be suffering from it. And possibly some suggestions for ways out.
Today's trigger for the post was actually another software evolutionary branch that got cut off with the demise of the Lisp machines. Take a look at this tweet and its replies:
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