New Personal Website And Blog
Jun. 24th, 2025 12:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nemorathwaldI made a new personal website, matt-arnold.com. I have now completely migrated 21 years of blog posts from here to the blog section of that site, with improved full-text search and filtering. Let me know if you find formatting issues from the migration process!
I've set up a commenting system, although comments here won't transfer over to comments there and vice-versa. I'd appreciate if you'd test it! I know I can count on Sarah Elkins to do so. :)
For several years, every site I've built has used a static site generator, and this one is no exception. It's all focused on Javascript, Markdown files, and YAML flat files, which means I don't set up my own server or database. Instead I use Netlify for the back end (contact page, blog comments, forms, automatically-triggered events, and so on). For this site, I used Github Copilot AI to radically accelerate the development process.
The site also has some galleries of my projects and illustrations, as well as a page of my podcasts, and one collecting my talks and other videos, and links to external websites about board games I've made and events I run.
Expect much more content as time goes on. The Updates page will automatically build a changelog of all content updates, so that you don't have to wonder if you missed some.
The process of testing the blog migration has re-exposed me to an enormous amount of my own past, so I've been quite contemplative about it lately. I might blog about that soon.
I've set up a commenting system, although comments here won't transfer over to comments there and vice-versa. I'd appreciate if you'd test it! I know I can count on Sarah Elkins to do so. :)
For several years, every site I've built has used a static site generator, and this one is no exception. It's all focused on Javascript, Markdown files, and YAML flat files, which means I don't set up my own server or database. Instead I use Netlify for the back end (contact page, blog comments, forms, automatically-triggered events, and so on). For this site, I used Github Copilot AI to radically accelerate the development process.
The site also has some galleries of my projects and illustrations, as well as a page of my podcasts, and one collecting my talks and other videos, and links to external websites about board games I've made and events I run.
Expect much more content as time goes on. The Updates page will automatically build a changelog of all content updates, so that you don't have to wonder if you missed some.
The process of testing the blog migration has re-exposed me to an enormous amount of my own past, so I've been quite contemplative about it lately. I might blog about that soon.
