Some housekeeping.
Hosting. I have two sites hosted on GitHub Pages - baki.cc and bryanbyun.org, so that was the obvious choice for this one, but, I wanted to see what the cool kids were using these days. Turns out it's Cloudfare.
Oh yeah. Did I mention I was only looking for free hosting?
I used to use Dreamhost all the time. Still like it, but free is extra neat.
So . . . Cloudfare. There's Cloudfare Pages which is completely free. Nifty. I set it up but discovered that every time I would update the site I'd have to delete the old site then re-upload the entire site - it's like Star Trek transporters, the original is completely destroyed and replaced with a copy. That's fine for simple sites that aren't updated often (to be fair, Cloudfare Pages tell you that's what they're for up front) but it just seemed uncool, yo. So uncool.
So I considered doing a third site on GitHub Pages, but then I thought, what if I wanted to do some non- HTML/CSS type stuff . . . a little PHP here, a dash of SQL there . . . and I remembered Nuzzle House (love that groovy 90s look) uses Nearly Free Speech and has been happy with it. Buuuuuuut . . . even 1 cent a day isn't free and then I found this article on how to use Cloudfare R2 - some kind of bucket thing? I don't know, yo, all these buckets and instances and dockers . . . my aching brain! - to set up a free site and not have to Star Trek transporter the files each time I updated it . . . buuuuuuut I had to give them a credit card and it's possible I might have to eventually pay, sooooo . . .
GitHub Pages it was. There's no server-side stuff available, but I know how to use it and my site is hecka simple.
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Comments. I thought of trying to add comments to the site. Never had them (except for when I used WordPress back in the day). Disqus is a hot mess of ads and privacy issues. Blech. But it is ubiquitous. And free. Found RemarkBox to maybe kinda be a possibility . . . perhaps? Or GraphComment? It seems like a big headache for something that will get minuscule use, and, if someone really wants to reach out, they can do it via email or text.
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Accessibility. Looking into making the site pretty gosh darned accessible. Looks like W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is the place to be for that. Gonna have to start learning how to use main, header, and footer tags, and proper title tags. And aria-labels? So much to learn.
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Old stuff. I'll probably bring over some of the stuff from baki.cc - archive and stories eventually. Or maybe not?
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All in all it feels good to be back in the bakiwop.com digs. I actually kinda like the baki.cc domain name a bit more - seems new and fresh and "with it" and "hip" - but bakiwop.com was where it all started . . . well . . . mostly started . . . I did have school tilde server space back in the mid-90s, one of those .edu tilde sites, but bakiwop.com was my first domain name and it's nice to have it back after a quarter of a century or so.
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Also? I seem to be using an absurd amount of ellipses in this post . . . what the gosh darn heck?
It's been nearly a quarter century since i owned the bakiwop.com domain. Tonight? Tonight I couldn't fall asleep so I went downstairs, fired up the pc, and, for some reason, checked to see if it was available (I'd checked on and off over the years to no avail, natch) . . . and there it was, just waiting for me, looking all pretty and shiny on the domain registrar shelf. How cool is that?
caveat lector