Long time no see
Why are the posts scattered across so many years?
The very first version of this blog was written in the early 90s. On a wikiwiki. Moved to a PHP CMS called imaginatively webphpcms, as far as I can recall. It continued at some point in a French fork (or sincere imitation) of the O'Reilly wiki, SPIP(1). Then another one, then a botched attempt to port to TYPO3, yet another web content management system (CMS) written in PHP. Followed 3 versions of websites written from scratch (non-CMS), using diverse languages and technos... a wordpress blog... and a few frameworks.
- SPIP @ wikipedia and its repo
Backups, inexistant or unfit for purpose, providers suddenly going bust, catastrophic software failures, tapes sensitive to heat and EM fields, personal upheavals, and more, means most of the historical content is gone. Not many are going to mourn it. This explains however why there is a scattering of documents with wildly spread dates. For most older docs, the year is generally correct, month and day might be educated guesses.
More might appear in the past, as rescue efforts are ongoing.
Info
This post was originally written in Oct, 2025, but the only practical way to pin it is changing the creation date as part of the CI pipeline. It also appear in some otherwise empty categories prepared for future content
PS: not found anything yet older than 2004, but there are still many Zip, Jaz and hard-drives, as well as a few tapes that might not be corrupted.
Changes βfor humans
2025127 Updated link to timeline in leaflet to point directly to the canvas.
Added series of post L2L: myths debunked for second language learning.
Added post with Faillery's gyst publications.
Fixed a number of typos, and minor style warts.
20251120 Added pages: About, Compendium, link to leaflet.pub timeline.
20251113 First throw: structure, blog, mirror of newthai posts.