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I've been talking about rewriting this site since at least 2019, and I finally got around to it. What you're looking at is no longer WordPress; it's a .NET 10 Blazor application I wrote from scratch, sitting on Postgres, running in Docker behind nginx. I said back then that I might redo it in Laravel if I ever found the motivation, but I write C# all day at work, so Blazor made a lot more sense than writing in PHP.

I also moved the site to a more powerful VPS over at OVH, which gives me a lot more wiggle room to run Minecraft servers and whatever else I feel like hosting.

There's a new developer tools section as well, and a light and dark theme selector. I also built the traffic stats directly into the site instead of relying on Google Analytics.

I'm going to try to write some new tutorials and put up some better snippets. Anyway, hopefully this isn't my only post this year and I can get some more updates out.

I decided to look around for a more affordable VPS providers with better specs for the money, and found Hetzner. Now I’ve gone from a 2 core, 2 GB, 40 GB instance to a 4 core, 8 GB, 160 GB server for a little more than I’m paying now at DigitalOcean. I’m hoping this new service won’t let me down. I was also kind of disappointed with DigitalOcean, they don’t have the type of droplet I originally had for $12.

In other news I’ve been doing a little bit more web development in my spare time, so that motivated me to possibly start working on my personal website again. I’ve also finally started looking into container technology like docker. I’m not sure what I want to containerize, but I’m sure I’ll find a project.