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The lost draft has been found! I was recently revamping how I backup my data and randomly ran across a text file in a weird place. It was the draft of part two of my series on migrating from Wordpress to Jekyll! The first post in this series talked about backing up the old Wordpress site, exporting the site data for Jekyll, installing Jekyll an...

Unfortunately, I’m not going to finish my planned series on migrating from Wordpress to Jekyll. I apologize and hope the first article is helpful to someone. About a month ago, the logic board on my personal computer bit the dust while I was in the middle of drafting the next article in the series. I didn’t realize how serious my computer’s pro...

It took me two months, but the migration of my website from Wordpress to Jekyll is finally done. Things look different now, but virtually all of my content made it through unscathed. I wanted to talk about what the process was like, problems I faced, and lessons I learned. There are several other places on the Wide, Wide World o’ Web that provi...

Goodbye, WordPress. I’ve been using WordPress for many years, but I’m ditching it in favor of a static site generator. This is a huge change. You can expect my entire site to look different. Things may go missing. Links may break. If you’ve subscribed to my site at all, you’ll no longer get updates (please send me a message if you want to keep g...

If you want to know about medieval plate armor, you need to watch this video from a curator of the Department of Arms and Armor at The Met. I started this post several years ago and never finished it. It languished in my drafts folder until today. I figured I’d quickly post my rough notes from the above video, for those who are disinclined to...

Why does English have both C and K that make the same sound? My 11 and 12 year old daughters asked me this question today. I have researched it before, but couldn’t remember. So here’s a little explanation. Maybe it will stick in my head this time. Back in the day, the Greeks adapted the Phoenician alphabet for themselves, and it ended up being...

I just learned that Neil Peart, drummer and lyricist for the band Rush, died from brain cancer this week. The depth to which his death has affected me was surprising at first. But as I thought about it, I realized I’ve probably listened to thousands of hours of his lyrics and music throughout my life. Rush was the first band I fell in love with...

I haven’t posted for over two months, and my Minecraft modding plans have changed quite a bit. I had gotten very stuck on the world gen features I was planning for Primalcraft, and couldn’t find a way around or through the problems. I realized I’d been working on this monstrous mod for over two years, and it was likely I would never be able to f...