I’ve been slow to post these last few days, due to some technical issues here; the WordPress back-end stopped loading the ‘new post’ page, leaving me unable to add entries from a web browser. Fortunately, the mobile app still worked, though I was sorely limited by my old man thumb-typing skills. And, this afternoon, I managed to temporarily fix the web version, by rolling back from WordPress’ Gutenberg block editor to the older Classic editor instead.

Still, it’s a clear sign that this whole site is in need of a reboot. The WordPress install is crufty with two decades of my poorly-coded tweaks, and the front-end design is even worse – increasingly dated, an HTML/CSS validation disaster, and unresponsive enough to be semi-unusable on mobile devices.

At the same time, as I’ve previously discussed, I’m currently doing my best to ruthlessly cull my daily to-do list, so I can focus in on the small number of projects and goals and habits that matter to me most. And while that does include aiming to post here something close to daily, it certainly doesn’t include rebuilding this entire site from scratch. Having done it several times before in the past, I know how deep that rabbit hole goes, and I just can’t justify the days (or, plausibly, weeks) of work it would require.

So, for the moment, I’m just hobbling ahead with the site as is, and hoping it continues to at least sort of work. Fingers crossed.