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one cms to rule them all

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2023.03.15

I've just noticed that I have continuous recordings of edits to this website's page dating back to this time in 2008. That's fifteen years with a stable CMS. The first pages date to a decade before that, and the journal itself a year or two earlier than that. But the content management system (CMS) has been more or less as is for a long time indeed. I've never named it. Because that would imply that it's a product. And then I'd have to rewrite it.

Which is not to say that I haven't been tinkering with it this whole time. I'm slowly moving back to Perl if you can believe it. Because PHP is becoming somehow worse than it was twenty years ago and Perl is still Perl sweet Perl.

rand()m quote

In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.

—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009