Textux Reloaded

After a bit of doing, I have the vast majority of old content from multiple iterations of textux - the original content back in the early 2000’s, the fever dream CoVid days, and the more modern subdued developer notebook. The reconstruction took a lot of data sources - old backups, database dumps, a few captures from archive.org, and a lot of manual sorting. I’m not certain I’ve got EVERYTHING - that will require continuing to sort through old backups.

I’ve tried my best to leave old stuff ‘as-is’. I fixed a couple compatibility issues with modern Linux in the SDL tutorial series and revamped the ancient CSS to handle mobile and high-DPI displays. Hopefully. I also finally retired the wordpress server and revamped hosting of the old Covid-cast.

Since the site is now statically rendered, backups are EASY. I’ve switched over to a simply git repo with a handful of scripts to do the leg work of updating. A bit of work left to do in improving browser caching. Nothing the refresh button won’t quickly solve though.

Sometimes the old ways are best.