I had a half-day free yesterday and sorted through a bunch of obfuscated, ancient projects on maxfenton.com — rearranging everything so they all run on/through/beside a lovely little CMS called Stacey.
There’s no new database and no new pages, but I rewrote some small server-side scripts in Javascript, worked through some funny mod_rewrite puzzles, and cleaned up some problematic PHP (from ~10 years ago). Without breaking any of those pages, I cleaned up around the edges so I can feel a little safer to re-surface them.
The point of bringing a new database-less CMS into the mix wasn’t to change the way any of those project function, but to make it cleaner and easier to add new experiments.
Most of all, it was fun to look at code I wrote before, oh, 2005, and remember writing it. Each of those things was originally an experiment, a sandbox to learn something off to the side of some client’s project.
These days, I’m writing some kind of code at least a few days a week, and I hope this little rearrangement will make it more likely to keep adding little things that might also grow cobwebs for a decade or two.
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