Posts now simulcast at GitHub

I’ve copied and pasted most of the stuff I’ve published here into Markdown files that are published in the GitHub directory for this site. As noted in the README over there, I’ve used a few tricks to capture most of the information that I’m using in the background here at Tumblr, in case I move to another service (which I’m almost guaranteed to do eventually). I should figure out a way to record publishing time — right now only the day is saved, so things would restore out-of-order. I don’t know if any of this stuff that I’m writing or pushing or whatever will be useful to anyone other than me, but if you want it, here it is.

The footer tells about how everything here is licensed with Creative Commons, and includes a link to the site’s repository. CC doesn’t require that I publish everything as source; I don’t know if even the GFDL requires that. Like I said, though, it gives me an option for the future to move or restore from backups; it also happens to make it easier to share my work. Benefits for everybody!

written 9 January, 02009 Comments