Goodbye Wordpress.com, hello Jekyll! | Andrew Whitby
A brief personal history of blogging and why I moved from Wordpress.com to Jekyll.| andrewwhitby.com
Coming back to edit and publish this post, I had to check the original file creation date: October 26, for what it’s worth. On that date effective altruism (EA) was a movement in the ascendent, with a charismatic leader fresh off a well-funded (hmm) book tour. Today it is the Do-Gooder Movement that Shielded Sam Bankman-Fried from Scrutiny while the EA-adjacent are rapidly distancing themselves.| Andrew Whitby
B24-E Liberator bombers under production at Ford’s Willow Run plant, Michigan Photo credit: Howard R. Hollem via LOC| Andrew Whitby
| Andrew Whitby
A digital image sold for $69 million using “non-fungible token” technology. What does this all mean?| Andrew Whitby
The First “Computer Bug,” a moth “found trapped between points at Relay #70, Panel F, of the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator while it was being tested at Harvard University, 9 September 1945.” Photo credit: Naval History and Heritage Command NH 96566-KN| Andrew Whitby
I have come very late to the Borgen phenomenon, with the Netflix crowd. Still, I’m enjoying this Scandinavian West Wing with its occasional flashes of Frank Underwood ruthlessness.| Andrew Whitby
If you’re storing countries in a database, you should use codes of some kind. Country names might seem okay, but they:| Andrew Whitby
tl;dr It’s unclear. There’s a clear English-language lineage, but there really are similar African proverbs and it’s hard to rule out cross-pollination.| Andrew Whitby
| Andrew Whitby
A brief personal history of blogging and why I moved from Wordpress.com to Jekyll.| andrewwhitby.com
