I checked my blog: the last entry was from 2024, and, before that, 2021. There are a two big reasons for that.
First off, COVID. That was depressing enough that I focussed on other things. I was also busy with those other things that I didn’t think about writing on here at the time. (It can be rough, because it is sometimes difficult to concentrate for the long periods of time necessary to write.)
Secondly, there were serious problems with the back end of the website, and I didn’t want to take the time to investigate them. When I finally cataloged the big bookcase, stuffed full and then some, holding most of The Collection, I selected several to write short pieces about over on BlueSky, but there were some that were too involved for that short format, so, one night, I delved into the error logs. Mainly, the problems were with a couple of the plugins, one of which was mine. That one was easily dealt with: it was a mistake I corrected elsewhere, and neglected to do here. The other problems were with another plugin: the coder used some very out-of-date conventions in string handling and some ‘fancy’ coding using trinary expressions that should have been handled with straight-forward if/then/else structures. I also took the time to clean up some of the corrupted characters: somewhere along the way, some of the left and right double quote marks got changed to weird characters, so I went through some of the posts to clean them up. Sometimes, just the thought of fixing everything was enough to turn me away: not sure what happened, but I am glad it did happen.
I still need to go through the broken links and clean them up and look at using a better theme, so if things look a little wonky at times, its just the outward signs of the back end construction.
