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1 # This is my last post
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3 29 september, 2021
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5 … here.
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7 ## Everything comes to an end
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9 It's been 5 years since my last post here. I think we can safely
10 assume that I will never post anything on here again.
11
12 ## Shed a tear, fellow internet stranger
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14 This was my very first blog, and I love it. I cannot imagine taking it
15 down, because I have so many good memories associated with it.
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17 The loud-ass fan running 24/7 under my desk, preventing a good night
18 sleep, but necessary to reach 99.999999999% uptime between to electrical
19 outages…
20
21 <s>Spending</s> Wasting time typing posts in HTML, tweaking the CSS,
22 then markdown, tweaking the CSS, reinstalling the OS, building a makefile for it, tweaking
23 the CSS, starring at it, tweaking the CSS, …
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25 Forcing myself into learning a topic because I HAVE TO WRITE A FUCKING
26 POST PER MONTH.
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28 [Planning updates][0], [Recovering from hardware issue][1], [Recovering
29 from stupidity issue][2], [Acting like I was doing backups correctly][3],
30 …
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32 Man these were funky times!
33
34 ## Monochromatic is dead, long live whatever!
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36 But I grew up. I changed, and so did my interests. This blog's "engine"
37 is fairly static after all, and after carrying it over the years,
38 I need something different.
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40 I'm more of a sysadmin than a programmer, and as such, I like building and
41 automating things. As I get older, I tend to be lazier than enthusiastic
42 about blogging, and the process I forced myself into with this blog
43 doesn't cut it anymore, and isn't "portable":
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45 - pull out the repo
46 - `mkdir -p $(date "+%Y/%m")`
47 - write the article in markdown
48 - run `make` to generate the tarball
49 - realise I forgot to list the file in `config.mk`
50 - `make` again
51 - commit post in `git`
52 - [push it][4] and hope for the git hook to work (it never does)
53 - deploy the website manually from a tarball
54 - read the post online, and pick a typo…
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56 This feels so painful now.
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58 I still like to write about stuff, but I need a simpler way to do
59 it. I've tried a few times to change the way I blog there, but in the
60 end, it would mean changing all the URLs, changing the way I generate
61 the HTML, and totally recreate this blog from scratch, just keeping
62 the old articles. And as I said, this blog is full of good memories,
63 and being a nostalgic person here, I don't want to change it!
64
65 ## So what's next ?
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67 One thing's for sure: I'm not stopping my activity on the internet.
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69 This blog will remain up, but will not receive further updates after
70 this post.
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72 My main website (https://z3bra.org) will remain up, because I now use
73 it to promote the tools I write, so I'll keep updating that at least.
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75 I brought back my gopher hole: [gopher://z3bra.org][5] ([http][6]), and hacked
76 together a [gopher proxy][6] to make it easier to read. It's far from
77 perfect, and rather fragile, but does the job.
78 At some point I'll put a relayd(8) in front of it and call it "finished".
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80 I also started blogging over gopher, using [scribo][7]. The phlog is
81 currently hosted at [gopher://phlog.z3bra.org][8] ([http][9]).
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83 This workflow suits me for now, and I like the simplicity of gopher. I
84 might look into [gemini][10] at some point…
85
86 ## Closing thoughs
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88 Running this blog was a great experience. Now it's time for me to move
89 on to something new and more refreshing. At this time, it means
90 [gopher][5], but this might (will!) change as time goes by.
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92 If you've been following this blog, thank you, from the bottom of my
93 heart. I hope you've enjoyed reading me as much as I loved posting here!
94
95 **Gros bisoux les copains, et à trés vite !**
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97 [0]: https://blog.z3bra.org/2014/07/planning-downtime.html
98 [1]: https://blog.z3bra.org/2014/08/im-back-up.html
99 [2]: https://blog.z3bra.org/2015/04/the-wrong-sysadmin.html
100 [3]: https://blog.z3bra.org/2014/09/backup-someone.html
101 [4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olgn9sXNdl0
102 [5]: gopher://z3bra.org
103 [6]: http://phroxy.z3bra.org
104 [7]: http://z3bra.org/scribo
105 [8]: gopher://phlog.z3bra.org
106 [9]: http://phroxy.z3bra.org/phlog.z3bra.org
107 [10]: https://gemini.circumlunar.space