First post!

TL;DR: WordPress is gone. Replaced with Zola and an automation pipeline that has no business being as complicated as it is. No regrets.

Maintaining a WordPress site I never actually used was starting to feel like paying rent on an apartment I only visited to check the mail. So I did what any reasonable person does — I torched it and rebuilt everything as a static site.

Zola handles the heavy lifting. Fast, sane, written in Rust, and it doesn’t require a plugin ecosystem held together with duct tape and backwards compatibility. While I was at it, I brushed up the resume and picked a theme worth keeping. I’ll extend it over time and hopefully get a photography section up at some point.

Baby steps. The WordPress server, however, is dead. Long may it stay that way.