Modernizing McFilter

Hello! It’s been a bit quiet round here this year, partly because I’ve been busy, but there’s usually still the occasional Interesting Things on the Internet post even then and it’s been almost six months.

That’s because a friend pointed out that the site wasn’t loading on their phone because, shock horror!, it was http rather than https. I fixed that by turning on a certificate on the old hosting account it’s been hosted on forever; but that actually broke the back end for writing new posts. Doh.

Rather than dig around in that to update the assorted hard-coded http URLs, that was the final push to get on with something I’ve been meaning to do for years.

So now, rather than running a ridiculously ancient blogging engine of Movable Type(!?!), I’ve migrated it all to Jekyll. mcqn.com went through that move (from Drupal, in that instance) ten years ago, so it’s a long time coming.

I’ve got an off-the-shelf theme at the moment, just to get things started (he says, before it then takes another decade or something to replace that). Hopefully I’ve not broken too much (and please, shout if you spot anything!) and have rewrite rules in place because cool URLs don’t break.

Moving to Ruby will let me play around with things more easily. It’d be nice to bring back the microformats for the event and the blog all dog-eared pages entries, for example. And pull in more of the IndieWeb stuff. Let’s see how quickly that happens.