I’ve been working on importing more than twenty-six years of writing back into this website. A thousand+ articles from multiple platforms from different eras of my life and from different variants of me.
The positive news is that the text made the journey but the negative news is that the images did not.
Every photograph, every illustration, every scanned memory that once lived beside those words now has to be reconnected manually. I cannot write a script that solves this issue. I’ll need to open old articles, find the original image, upload it and move on to the next.
This is digital archaeology.
Oddly enough, I don’t mind because there’s something satisfying about revisiting work that spans more than a quarter century. Some posts deserve to remain exactly as they were. A few make me wonder what on earth I was thinking of but I’ll just remind myself that it seemed important at the time.
Every single time I make a decision to improve this site, I end up breaking something. Then the task becomes to daunting in the moment and I’ll ignore it for a few months. Maybe I was figuring out all the variables before I could solve the equation?
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