Archive: 2018

budts.be v5: Pelican

It's been 5 years since I wrote my last blogpost. Until today.

The past years my interest in blogging declined. Combined with the regular burden of Drupal security updates, I seriously considered to simply scrap everything and replace the website with a simple one-pager. Although a lot of my older blog-posts are not very useful (to say the least) or are very out of date, some of these bring memories of long gone times. Needles to say I didn't like the idea of deleting everything from these past 15 years.

Meanwhile I also have the feeling that social networks, Facebook in particular, have too much control over the content we create. This gave me the idea to start using this blog again. By writing content on my own blog, I can take control back and still easily post it to Facebook, Twitter and so on. A few days later Dries wrote a post about his very similar plans. Apparently this idea even has a name: The IndieWeb movement.

I decided …