I’ve come to understand that this project I can never truly finish comes with creative freedom on a whim. Projects like this are rare in that they demand nothing, yet give you everything. You owe them to nobody but yourself, and I think I’ve finally learned to embrace that.
This site has been here in some form or other for ten years, most of them as a blog, and seven of those running WordPress. But from time to time you just have to tear it up and start again. Here then begins an adventure in Jekyll-powered, git-stored, version-controlled blogging. Not that it will ever end.
In stripping everything back and starting the blog anew, I’ve been able to cherry pick what’s really important to me in terms of metadata and display, and try to present new posts in a way that I think is best for content on the web. Categories, timestamps, locations, timezones and more have all been considered.