Welcome to Blog v11
Adam Scheinberg, April 1, 2025 (2 days ago)
Welcome to version 11 of my weblog.
It's March 2025. The last post on this blog was 9 years ago, in February 2016. For years, I wrote PHP software and taught myself using this blog. Each version was a new piece of software: tubeCode, Small Axe, Flip, Flip Lite, &c. Not just that - the URL changed too. It started with firsttube.com in the year 2000, which became blog.adamscheinberg.com and finally sethadam1.com.
Version after version was an improved PHP engine, until version 10, where I finally surrendered. I decided it wasn't worth all the work and in August 2008, I imported the history into Wordpress. This site ran Wordpress for nearly 17 years.
But the world has changed. First of all, I'm not a huge fan of Wordpress for my personal site anymore. It's still a great CMS, but I'm not a fan, personally, of the guy running things. Combine that with the fact that maintaining and securing Wordpress requires some effort and it started to weigh on me: it's not an actively used blog, could I update it without much effort?
The AI toolchain is so incredibly helpful now that rewriting this "blog" only took a few hours. I had ChatGPT write up the style based on a few prompts. It also helped me write the truncation functions, the regex parser, and the data cleanup routines. Then I had Gemini write the RSS parser. I used my own pre-existing framework and libraries to get a database interface, let VSCode autocomplete tons of the glue between them, and - bingo bango - the new blog was up and running.
For those that didn't catch that - this blog was written about fifty-fifty, human and AI.
For any stragglers still connected to this RSS feed: no, I don't plan to start posting to my blog again much, but at least now I have a very minimal, far more secure, archive for my posts.