About
What would a blog be without the obligatory 'about' page telling you stuff? Ok, so this blog is basically a place for my ramblings about things, be they radio, railway or electronics related. It's nothing special.
I toyed for ages with a place to write things, first on my valve pages, then a blog elsewhere, then here, and finally I put all my radio 'about' information on my QRZ page which made sense at the time.
This blog is created using Publii which is a static site generator. Previously I used Wordpress but for a small blog like this it was a rather large a complex beast. I had to use plugins to remove Google fonts and such because the basic Wordpress themes used them, plus there are constant attacks making it particularly vital to keep the code patched. I ran that version of the blog on a VPS rented from Heart Internet but once we got broadband by FTTP (fibre direct to the house) it made more sense to run the blog on my own server. The cost of that broadband package was less than the annual rental for the VPS. But having Wordpress running on a server actually in the house was a non-starter and so after a search for options I chose Publii.
One disadvantage is that there is no search facility. I am investigating what to do there but search engines do seem to be picking the pages up so that may provide a way to find stuff here. I will not be integrating Google (etc.) into the site - you get to chose whatever search you use, rather than me selecting one that ends up with you receiving cookies and ads or otherwise being tracked due to me.