{"id":20,"date":"2005-04-18T00:02:13","date_gmt":"2005-04-17T15:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-04-18\/20"},"modified":"2005-04-18T00:09:37","modified_gmt":"2005-04-17T15:09:37","slug":"ive-moved-my-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-04-18\/20","title":{"rendered":"I’ve Moved My Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

I've moved my blog to: https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n\n

Yahoo!360<\/a> was sufficiently well done\n(and sufficiently easy to get started with) that it got me to start the\nblog I'd been wanting for ages. But once Y<\/span>!360 got me hooked on the drug\nthat is blogging, it didn't follow through with enough features to satiate\nmy needs. I realize<\/span> that it's a beta<\/span> product, of course, but a blog<\/span> is a\nvery,<\/span> very sticky, all-or-nothing thing, and if it doesn't have enough\nfeatures, well, it doesn't have enough features<\/i>.<\/p>\n\n

The most unforgivable lack is that of view statistics. Have 1,000 people\nseen my latest bit of written inspiration? Or 100,000? Or even 1<\/span>? I have no<\/span>\nidea — Y!360 doesn't tell me.<\/p>\n\n

It's also fairly unforgivable that there is no notification (e.g.\nemail\/IM) when someone comments on a post.<\/span> If you've got 10 or 100 or 1,000\nposts and want to see what comments are left, you must inspect each post\nfor them.<\/p>\n \n\n

More forgivable, but still exceedingly annoying, is that you can't put\nimages inline with a post.<\/span> You can only<\/span> upload images from your local\nmachine (you can't upload from a url<\/span>), and at most one per post, which\nappears at the top. I can imagine<\/span> various security \/ implementation reasons\nwhy they chose this limitation, at least for the first round. It wouldn't\nsurprise me if they lift this restriction in the future (but then, by then,\nit'll be too late for me).<\/p>\n\n

When deciding to host the blog on my own server, I had to<\/span> decide what\nsoftware to use. It seems<\/span> that the two main contenders are Movable Type<\/a> (MT<\/b>) and WordPress<\/a> (WP<\/b>). MT was the<\/span> name I\nknew,<\/span> but WP was recommended to me, and a perusal<\/span> of various commentary\narticles indicated that WP had more features. So, I went with<\/span> it.<\/p>\n\n

WordPress was easy enough to get set up and start working with, but the\nmore I looked<\/span> at it, the more I couldn't<\/span> believe how poorly engineered it\nis. (Well, it's written in PHP, so what should I expect<\/span>?). I\nseriously<\/i> considered bailing on it and just writing my own blogging\nsoftware, but unless I want<\/span> to get serious about it and release it as a\nreal<\/span> project, it's probably just better to try to diddle things as\nminimally as possible and spend my time elsewhere (like writing, or playing\nwith Anthony, or doing the dishes, etc.)<\/p>\n\n

I mean, these people (who develop WordPress) don't even know how to keep\ntrack of time. It has a<\/span> nice feature where you can use different themes (I\nwrote<\/span> my own, so the style, or lack thereof, of my blog is my own fault),\nand the default theme has some commented-out code for displaying a “2\nhours ago” type message along with a blog's<\/span> post date. It's commented<\/span> out because it doesn't work unless you happen to be in the same timezone as\nthe guy who wrote it. Actually, let me be more specific in that it's not\nthe writer<\/i> that has to be there, but the server hosting your blog\n(which may be halfway around the world from where you are, as is the case\nwith me). It's simply<\/span> moronic. At least<\/span> it was commented out.<\/p>\n\n

Some day soon I'll write a blog entry about how to keep track of time\nand temporal events like blog posts. Maybe the WordPress people will see\nit.<\/p>\n\n

Of course, WordPress is free and likewise, I'm free to<\/span> not use it. I understand<\/span> that. But that doesn<\/span>'t mean I can't<\/span> complain \ud83d\ude42<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I've moved my blog to: https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/<\/b><\/p>

Yahoo!360 was sufficiently well done (and sufficiently easy to get started with) that it got me to start the blog I'd been wanting for ages. But once Y!360 got me hooked on the drug that is blogging, it didn't follow through with enough features to satiate my needs. I realize that it's a beta product, of course, but a blog is a very, very sticky, all-or-nothing thing, and if it doesn't have enough features, well, it doesn't have enough features.<\/p>

The most unforgivable lack is that of view statistics. Have 1,000 people seen my [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}