me.micahrl.com

This very website

I live here, online.

Primary goal: permanence

The primary goal of this site is to be my main presence online in the long term. I want my contact information and my writing to be findable here.

I want to avoid components of this site that might require ongoing maintenance. This site stayed up throughout some brutal battles with rsi in part because there was nothing that could go wrong and require me to step in and keep it up.

Other sites I have operate under less severe requirements. For instance, Interpersonal allows me to use this site as login for IndieAuth, and it has server-side logic components. However, if the worst happened and Interpersonal was found to be insecure and need to be taken offline until maintenance could be performed, or the server I’m running its logic on were to go down, my main site would stay up.

For this reason I also don’t host my own mail, though I am tempted to do it sometimes to gain more control. Instead, I use (and endorse) Fastmail.

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Changelog

  • 2023-09-08: Migrate from GitHub to Sourcehut for repository hosting, to use builds.sr.ht CI to automatically publish the onion site
  • 2023-08-13: Add webmentions with webmention.io
  • 2023-08-11: Add comments with remark42
  • 2022-10-25: Add Onion-Location headers, so visiting the site in Tor Browser will show an .onion available banner, see also the update on the Sacred Ground post
  • 2022-10-11: Add a section for webgardens
  • 2022-04-12: Add tweet archive
  • 2022-04-11: Start tracking this changelog (older entries will be spotty)
  • 2022-04-09: Add dark mode
  • 2022-04-09: Support inline tweets
  • 2022-04-03: Update site design
  • 2021-06-25: Add quicklinks
  • 2021-06-23: Add Formulae Technica
  • 2021-03-10: Style the RSS feed
  • 2021-03-05: Add the technologies taxonomy for blog posts and projects
  • 2020-07-23: Add the secret control panel
  • 2020-07-07: Add Fathom Analytics
  • 2020-02-18: Switch from GitHub Pages to Netlify (precise date is uncertain)
  • 2017-03-22: Switch from Jekyll to Hugo
  • 2016-05-08: Change domain from www.micahrl.com to me.micahrl.com (the subdomain was mandatory at the time for GitHub Pages)
  • 2014-04-30: Switch from ikiwiki to Jekyll, and from a repository and webserver hosted on my own VM to GitHub and GitHub Pages