If you don't care about how websites are built, this is going to be a very boring read, so feel free to stop reading right here.
It's been a long time coming, and today it finally happened: This blog is no longer powered by WordPress, the famous CMS originally made for blogs and since used for all kinds of websites.
Instead, brimborium.net is now powered by Zola, a "static site generator" that's written in Rust and thus is a single binary - it could just as well been any other static site generator, but since I am familiar with Zola thanks to another project well suited to it and another one where it may not have been the perfect choice, but works well enough, I went with it again, given that blogs work great in Zola. What's different, is the hosting (simple, cheap netcup VPS instead of framagit or uberspace, where brimborium.net was hosted before for all of its previous life), and the theme - a customization of the very bare-bones and simple no style, please!.
This change makes the site lighter for server and clients (and thus more climate-friendly), improves my control over "issues" like me not wanting my site to load random code from external resources (which is a common problem with WordPress themes and plugins, that change over time - so, all in all, it's really very much up my alley.
All that's still lacking is new content. But I have had many ideas in the last two years that this change has been on my mind and - on-and-off - in the works, and all the manual work and partial content review that was necessary to make this re-launch feel 'safe' to do, was also inspiring. Let's hope I can find the time to follow through.