Revamping the Blog... In Progress (2013)
Archival repost — originally published on my old blog on April 6, 2013, already in English (this was the post announcing the blog would go English-only going forward). Lightly cleaned up for dev.to. Pagodabox shut down in 2015, and Cloud9 IDE was acquired by AWS and rebuilt into something very different, so neither is usable the way described here — Lectroid, the Node.js blog engine, still exists…
In 2013, a blog post announced the transition of the blog from English-only to English-only. The author, who is not a native English speaker, found it easier to write in the language of Shakespeare. The blog had been running on a full LAMP stack with WordPress on a dedicated server, but the author found this setup to be an overkill. The author had wanted a personal blog system, not a full CMS engine.
To address this, the author developed a lightweight Node.js-based blog engine called Lectroid. This engine required no database and stored posts as markdown files. The author also aimed to simplify the development process and decided to try a Platform as a Service (PaaS). After trying a few options, the author settled on Pagodabox.
The author will now be using Cloud9 IDE for versioning and deploying to Pagodabox. Despite Pagodabox shutting down in 2015 and Cloud9 IDE being acquired by AWS and rebuilt, Lectroid, the Node.js blog engine, still exists as historical software. The author assured their readers that they would keep them updated on the progress of the blog revamp.
Written by urgent.news from Dev.to's reporting — not their text. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.
