New website

Last week we were once again startled by a string of panicking media reports claiming that internet Armageddon had broken out because of a PHP vulnerability. Well, it turned out not to be quite that bad, but this website also ran on WordPress and PHP. Two technologies that are looking a bit shabby and are due for replacement.

Since this site is really 99% one-way traffic from me to you, it can easily be done differently. It’s now a very simple website again, to which I can still easily add pages with a few clever tools.

For the enthusiasts: the pages are converted from MD to HTML with Hugo, there’s a home-made Rust program to mail the newsletter to all 80 readers, and a small container for the comments.

The whole tracking page was already static, so that already worked.

The translations are now generated automatically, once, by running them through the Claude API, instead of at the moment you read them. I’ve limited the languages to the ones where I think the readers come from; anyone else will just have to read English.