This is a new website. I have been sans-website for a few years now, my last site being a custom theme built on a very early alpha build of Ghost. I really like Ghost, but I wouldn’t recommend using it like I did.
There’s an excellent lesson in there, as the tech stack was undergoing updates faster than I wanted (or could) keep up with in my free time outside of work. Eventually, I ended up with a well built site with decent content that was in a theme standard that had diverged enough, and instead of updating it, I just left it on an old version when the software updated. Oops!
Recently, I decided to exit Meta (facebook and Instagram) with regards to social media. Of course, I ran at this with a glorious plan- organize my various projects and document them (they’re interesting to me, so they might be to others!), join the Fediverse – I appear to be sipping that Kool Aid, federate myself (maybe).
For this website, I chose a return to WordPress despite all the drama. I’ve been doing some work with SvelteKit professionally, and I thought that WordPress as a headless CMS with a SvelteKit frontend (all custom look and feel of course), incorporating the ActivityPub extension so that I can publish my longer-form content to the fediverse and receive comments. Well, of course, scoping is never fun for personal projects- sometimes it’s fun to just dive in and do a thing, and Mistakes are just Learning Opportunities.
These plans sort of fell apart, as once I was into the tech stack more, I realized that making wordpress headless would break a lot of the ActivityPub protocol. I’m still learning quite a bit, and it also seems clear that I’ll know significantly more as I progress. I did learn that I think I still need separate Fediverse accounts in the respective applications – I was hoping to sort of federate myself and have one handle for all platforms.
In any case, this explains why I’ve got this stock themed website with silly links to a shop (I don’t intend to sell anything), nor do I have events, or offer patterns – unless that pattern is a healthy dose of Dunning-Kruger.
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