Recently, the owner of WordPress.com and the WordPress foundation went batshit insane. That deserves its own post, but the final result is that I decided to take the plunge and move this blog away from WordPress and into something else (Pelican or 11ty, I haven’t made my mind yet).

Today, after spending way too much time updating all the things (something else that deserves its own post), I tried to use the WP export tool, just to realize that my blog has a lot of draft posts, and that would cause a lot of problems when migrating!

Why my blog has a lot of draft posts… eh, at some point I decided that I wanted to make sure that all published things were things I really felt comfortable saying, and I hid all the posts in this blog. Honestly, I don’t quite remember the details.

So now I decided to go through the old posts and un-drafting them. I think I went through about 100 old posts today? The vast majority of them are just fine. Two of them I deleted because they were just a dead link, and only one of them was actually something too awkward that I decided did not need to see the light of day again.

And since I was going through these old posts, I decided to fix their tags and categories, because if we’re going to shave that Yak, we might as well do a complete job, right?

Which brings me to the title of the blog — so. many. dead. links. I think more than 2/3rds of the link in those old posts don’t work anymore. It’s really sad. The posts themselves were nice, most of them reminded me of good old days when I was finishing my PhD and starting a new job, but every now and then there was a “by the way, I saw this really cool thing on the internet today”, and the cool thing was just a dead link now.

I started tagging those posts “link rot”, but I almost named the tag “Ganondorf”…

Anyway, let’s hope I finish the migration to a SSG soon!