I can think of few less important things to do in 2026 than reviving a 20 year old blog, but I’ve been thinking a lot about blogging lately and here we are. Keeping a public journal made me actively think about the shape of days. I liked that. I miss that.

For years after I stopped blogging, I would check in on my vintage Moveable Type 3 CMS software that powered the blog installing shims to keep going , but eventually it gave up and I gave up, and slowly the blog started falling apart like a rusty car left in the woods. 

Maybe because my kids are in college now, I felt the pull of having an easy way to throw thoughts into the ether on a platform that wasn’t controlled by companies I no longer trust. I wondered, “Could I vibe code a Mac native CMS into existance?" After a few false starts it took me about a week to build a shambolic, but totally workable CMS that does a bunch of things I’ve always wanted.

1. I have a a local version properly versioned site that lives in a folder on my computer.

2. I can edit in WYSIWYG / HTML / Markdown.

3. I can drag in or paste in pictures.

4. I can sync (or not) to the web whever I want. 

5. I can easily choose from various style templates of my own design. 

6. I can generate the whole thing as static files. 

7. I can automatically use a local model to analyze images, add alt text, and to handle grammar (Dsylexia is a curse). I’m so far resisting the urge to correct old posts, but I might. 

8. I’ve made a phone client that will allow me to post on the go.

9. I can manage a text blog and a photoblog in the same place.

10. etc.

What do I want to do next? I still have a lot of cleanup on the old blog content, and lots of unpublished stories that I want to get up. I also have multiple photoblogs to bring into this century. 

My hope is this will go quickly and I can just start to get into the rhythm of posting again. I’m enjoying it. Here’s to lost causes.