I burned yesterday and redesigned my web sites. What was www.michaelwlucas.com, blather.michaelwlucas.com, www.michaelwarrenlucas.com, and mwl.io have been consolidated in a single site, mwl.io. Fiction, nonfiction, FAQ, and blog, all coexisting as one happy family.
Happy families are the ones most likely to stab each other in their sleep. But anyway.
I have a whole slew of redirects on the old sites, so my incoming links should work. My Tiny RSS reader even caught my test post, so I’m pretty sure blog subscribers will continue to get my posts.
Spending a couple days working on this mess wasn’t fun but maintaining four sites, the correlated interdependencies, and all the trivial little difference was eating up too much time. I’ll make back this time in a year. I also took the chance to fine-tune my web server’s TLS configuration, as 2012’s iffy algorithms are downright dubious today.
Also, I’d like to thank Let’s Encrypt for making TLS everywhere a reality. This integration would never have happened without an infinite supply of web site certificates. If you’re not using them, you should.
Your old site used top have the full posts in the RSS feed. The new one seems to be truncated, forcing me to leave the safety of my feed reader and venture to the dark underbelly of the internet (ok not so dark) to read the what you write.
Is this intentional? Or is it a side effect of all the burning?
It’s a side effect of the theme. Trying to figure out a workaround.
The old WP theme was no longer maintained, and increasingly troublesome.