Toby's Log - Toby Mackenzie's Site

Goodbye, Rackspace

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:14:17 -0400

We at Cogneato have finally shut down our servers and other paid services with Rackspace. It is definitely a relief to be done with that. It was a six year operation, but a sudden large increase in costs pushed us to get it finished.

#4878

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:47:47 -0400

I think I've got the issues with my wiki-blog's publishing to git fixed.

wiki-blog post publishing

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:19:59 -0400

I switched my blog away from WordPress and to my own wiki-blog software a little over a week ago. I did so even without an easy way to publish posts, as I had to create the date based folder structure, increment an id, enter formatted dates and other meta-data, and run a rebuild of my static list pages, all manually. After a fair amount of work, I now have an automated way to do most of this via CLI.

WordPress no longer running this blog

Tue, 26 May 2026 23:47:00 -0400

As of last night, this blog is no longer running on WordPress, as it had since 2003. I have removed it and related code, switching to my own wiki-blog software. It builds a blog from a directory structure of markdown files. I've been working towards simplifying my site for some time, managing content with files kept in a git repo, using less complicated setups, and being static generator capable. Removing WordPress was in the plans for a while, but it was complicated to migrate. I've been pushing hard towards it for the last month or so and finally decided to make the switch even though things aren't perfect and some things aren't implemented with wiki-blog.

#4875

Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:39 -0400

Yesterday I got a letter from the IRS, a form CP5071. It said I had to verify my identity with them for them to continue processing my tax return.

#4872

Mon, 11 May 2026 16:58:25 -0400

I'm glad to see that MacVim 183, released on April 8th, contains the fix for the…

#4864

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:01:23 -0400

I won two art pieces from my Uncle Tom's estate auction. They will go on my walls along with my Uncle Joe's and other art.

#4860

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:50:12 -0400

Another of my uncles, Tom, passed away, and they're now having the first auction…

Project: WP To Markdown

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:49:40 -0400

I've been working for some time towards moving my blog off of WordPress, towards a simpler and static friendly setup. In that interest, I have made a PHP script to copy the site data to a Markdown directory structure and copy the media files, called WP to Markdown. The file and folder structure is largely based on the URL path structure of a WordPress site using the default permalink structure. This will help me to reproduce a similar structure with the software that replaces WordPress, which I am in the process of writing.

#4852

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:36:35 -0400

Done with another tax year. I was hoping to get it done a little earlier, but at least it wasn't right up to the wire like it has been sometimes.

CSS Naked Day

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:25:55 -0400

I have decided to participate in CSS Naked Day this year.

#4804

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:54:35 -0400

We got quite a bit of rain the last couple days. I went by the Cuyahoga River today and it was really flowing. There was also lots of ponding all over the place, in yards in in the park.