You may have noticed some changes to the site! At least I hope you have… Here’s a quick guide to the various rationales:
- I shortened the site name to Linux Rig. The My quickly began to feel a little personal, like it was about my Linux setup, rather than everyone‘s. I was able to buy the domain a few years ago and I’ve been waiting to use it. I’m sure I overthought it a bit, but a shorter URL usually doesn’t hurt.
- Linux Rig now has a logo! Interviewing Elio got me thinking about the importance of design in everything. I worked with a great designer who managed to get that cool logo out of the idea of penguins and computers…
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I’m off Tumblr. I love(d) Tumblr. The community is great and the backend is super easy to use. But I’ve been nervous about depending upon them ever since Yahoo! bought them. Yahoo! getting sold didn’t make me feel any better. So now I’m on hosted WordPress. The migration was pretty smooth and the hosted support has been great. I’m curious about Ghost, but it’s pretty pricey.
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I also decided to migrate the site after Dropbox killed its public folder which I used to host my images (Tumblr’s image hosting could be a bit wonky). If I was going to manually change a ton of image links, I figured I should just do it in a new CMS.
It’s interesting to note that despite all of my writing about the dangers of closed, proprietary systems, I found myself trapped in two (Tumblr and Dropbox). It’s also interesting to note that the closed, proprietary systems ultimately created a lot of work for me! But in the end, I’m glad to be in a new CMS with a new look. And it was interesting going through so many old posts. This site began as a simple, public journal about learning to use Xubuntu and it’s evolved into something much bigger (like a book!).
Feel free to let me know about any issues, thoughts, or suggestions! Or to let me interview you about your Linux setup.
Steven, I think getting off of Tumblr and Dropbox is a good idea. Hosted WordPress.com is a pretty good platform — you don’t have to worry about server upgrades or bandwidth costs. And you could always download it and use it on a self-hosted WordPress.org system. And you can use the new JavaScript-powered Dashboard alternative. “Innovation” comes to WordPress.com before WordPress.org. But you do have to pay for it, though you have to pay for hosting anyway if you run your own.
I’m not sure how well Ghost is doing these days, but I’m more excited about static-site generators like Hugo and Jekyll than I am about Ghost. Here’s my experimental Hugo site: http://stevenrosenberg.net/hugo/.
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I forgot to mention that my personal site (http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog) is built with Ode (http://ode.io).
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The new dashboard looks nicer but the old one had a lot of functionality. I often have to go back to the old dashboard to do things like…approve comments!
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