I've heard that I have the ability to write well, at times. When it flows, it flows. I decided to start blogging in 2013 on Blogger. I started a company and joined BizPark with the Microsoft Azure allotment. I created a WordPress blog and did a migration at some point. A lot happened in the time after that migration but I stopped coding and changed cities during tumultuous times that taught me many lessons concerning mental health and productivity. I eventually graduated from BizSpark and outgrew the credit allotment. That killed the WordPress blog.
I blogged about writing again on the existing Blogger blog but it didn't feel right. I looked at a few options where I wouldn't have to worry about hosting cost indefinitely and Jekyll stood out with GitHub Pages. The Importer was fairly straightforward for the existing blog posts.
Todo
- Set up redirects for all posts on blogger. The URI format is different so a complete redirect wouldn't work. Although, there may be something in @{Jekyll}|tool:1114| that could manage the redirects. I did notice the old URLs were stored in the front matter. I'm working on a command-line @{Ruby}|tool:989| gem for the current plan.
- I did find some of the lost @{WordPress}|tool:250| posts on archive.org that I downloaded with the wayback_machine_downloader. I think I might write an importer for that.
- I still have a few @{Disqus}|tool:29| comment threads to map
