Self-hosted comments, built to be mine.
Goodbye, Dr. Jekyll ended with giscus winning the comments boss fight. It turns out the boss got back up. This is the comment system I built to replace it: self-hosted, on the edge, mine down to the boards, and a blast to build.
Three lives of a blog, and one comfortable old villain.
This blog has died twice. Pelican in 2015, Jekyll in 2018, then eight years of cobwebs. This is the story of its third life: the friction that killed the first two, the monsters in the rebuild, and the comfortable old villain who kept whispering I should come back to him.
