Moving house
If you are reading this, you are reading it at space-baguette.com, which as of this week is the only address this notebook has.
For years it lived on a free hosted blogging platform under a subdomain. That was fine for a long time. Then the platform started putting adverts into my posts, between paragraphs, sometimes in the middle of a recipe, and the adverts were for things I would never recommend, including at one point a bread machine. The editor also changed twice in a year, each time in a way that made it harder to write a table of baker's percentages without it falling apart. I spent one evening fixing the same table four times and decided that was enough.
So I bought the domain in November and moved everything across. Practical notes:
- Old posts are here with their original dates. Everything was imported, so the archive goes back as far as it ever did. If a link from somewhere else points to the old address, the post is still here under the same title.
- Some photos did not survive. A few early posts lost their pictures in the move, and the originals were on a laptop that has since died. Those posts are now text only. They read better than I expected, which may say something about the photos.
- The feed has moved. It now lives at /rss.xml on this domain. If you were following the old one, you will need to add the new address. I am sorry about that; there was no way to forward it.
- Comments are gone. The old comments could not be exported in any form I could use, and I have decided not to add a comment system here. If you want to tell me something, correct my astronomy or tell me why your loaf collapsed, email is on the contact page and I do read it, a few times a week.
- No adverts, no tracking. There is nothing on this site that is not the post you came for.
The most recent things written before the move, such as the explanation of baker's percentages and a year of counting stars from the back step, came across intact, tables and all. That alone made it worth doing.
It has been cloudy all week, which is the only reason any of this got done.