I’ve decided to try another Retrochallenge! This October, I plan to attempt migrating my blogging activities, however sparse, to a DEC Rainbow 100 permanently. The blog will be generated by a static site generator written in GW-BASIC and served using uIP/FOSSIL, originally ported during the 2009 Retrochallenge Winter Warm Up.
Using WordPress has become somewhat unpleasant. Yes, I’m currently typing into a WordPress blog, but it isn’t a fun experience. Lately, for work, I’ve transitioned a number of websites to static sites generated via Cactus. I think moving to a static generator for my blog could be delightful.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been writing some GW-BASIC subroutines to support this endeavor. A nice deadline, though, should really get things moving.
I plan on providing some delightful details of the hardware involved of getting a DEC Rainbow 100 permanently serving pages. I also plan on completing the static blog generator in GW-BASIC, and hopefully someone else might actually find it useful or, at the very least, amusing. With a DEC Rainbow serving a blog, I think I might perhaps become a bit more prolific.