Hey, bagaag.com is back! I’ve just moved my fledgling site to WordPress. The old site was essentially just a test bed for a hobby programming project. It was a CMS written first in PHP and then in Python to manage a Hugo site hosted on IPFS. I got it working nicely and then promptly lost interest. As often happens with my hobby coding projects, the fun part was over. I decided if I want to actually focus on content, I should just use WordPress. It’s easy. I know it. Customization is fairly straightforward. And if I feel like geeking out, there really are no limits to what can be done.

So this site is now hosted on an old ThinkPad E430 that I use as a home Linux server for a handful of sites and some self-hosted apps. They all use a Cloudflare tunnel to expose an otherwise network-isolated nginx server to the Internet. This is a fantastic free service that let’s anyone host public Internet endpoints from a device not directly exposed to the Internet.

I found this Blocksy theme, which allows me to do Twitter-style posts — no title with content fully displayed in the post list — alongside traditional posts with a title and “more” line. It took a few tweaks to get things working as I like them, but so far not a line of code has been written. I expect I’ll get my hands in there and customize this with a child theme at some point. But for now, I can focus on content, which was the whole point. I’ll keep the About page updated with technical details around the site implementation.