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Author: Shimmy Xu <shimmy.xu@shimmy1996.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 22:44:04 -0600
New post: Staring at Yesterday in One Eye
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+title = "Staring at Yesterday in One Eye"
+date = 2020-01-06
+slug = "staring-at-yesterday-in-one-eye"
+draft = false
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+
+The dead speak! The galaxy has heard a mysterious broadcast, a record of **THE PAST** in the familiar yet distant tone of **MY OLD SELF**.
+
+
+## A Link to the Past {#a-link-to-the-past}
+
+Alright, that's enough puns and _The Rise of Skywalker_ jokes from me. As mentioned before, my blog was originally using WordPress and switched to Hugo in 2017-09-01. To be more specific, I actually had two WordPress blogs: one named Pandora (because of Borderlands 2, but this is such an cliche name that I'm sure there's a million other imaginary planets using this name) hosted with WordPress.com, and another being Library of Trantor (because of Isaac Asimov's _Foundation_ series) hosted on Bluehost, with the former written in English and latter in Chinese. Since I kept archives of both before taking them down, I was able to revive all those old posts from the grave using [this tool](https://github.com/SchumacherFM/wordpress-to-hugo-exporter) and some elbow grease.
+
+Handling images is tricky and my old posts made quite liberal uses of them unfortunately: I opted for the simplest way out and just kept the originals without any kind of fancy compression or styling. I still need to figure out a more efficient way to both store and serve those images. Even with Git LFS available, I was reluctant to add all 300+ Megabytes of images to my blog repository (so they are currently in untracked-land), and now my blog could definitely benefit from a CDN setup unless I find an efficient way to compress all of them (maybe do what Jupyter notebooks do: encode images in base64 to get a single HTML file).
+
+Through out the years, I've used WordPress, Disqus, Duoshuo (now defunct), and Isso as my comment systems. Now, my [Hyperskip](https://git.shimmy1996.com/shimmy1996/hugo-hyperskip) has superseded them all: it's the one true static comment system to end all comment systems! Taking inspiration from [Staticman](https://staticman.net/), I also store all the comments as a TOML file, but opted to use email as submission method, making the process much easier. Gone are the days of databases, queries, and external scripts, and I get to version control all the comments in the same Git repository as my blog. The ongoing search for the ideal commenting system is finally over for me (until it starts again).
+
+I refrained myself from leaving out any of the old posts, as the main motivation of this effort is really just to be able to easily see and be reminded of my older self. It's a strange yet familiar experience reading those old writings: I can see parts of me that has changed and parts that are still distinctively `shimmy1996`.
+
+
+## The Other Old Friend {#the-other-old-friend}
+
+One week into the New Year and I have already switched color scheme of the website five times, with another twenty sitting in my folder (totally not because of how unsightly these RGB color codes are). Much like how I'm a bit burned out from trying to [get fonts right for everything](/en/posts/2019-12-01-fun-with-fonts-on-the-web/), I have decided to remove all custom color choices from the website: no syntax highlighting, no fancy buttons, and no dark modes.
+
+Tags and categories are gone, too. As long as there are little knobs that I can play around with, I always find myself distracted and spending way too much time worrying about the most insignificant choice of words, colors, or spacing (as you can tell by how much of I blog about the blog). The only cure I found is to simply remove the opportunities of making those choices altogether, and stick with the default.
+
+Completely contrast to how the saying normally goes, I hardly ever find myself missing the things I cut away. More often than not, I sympathize with the elephant that finally broke free from the rope, rather than feeling the emptiness for losing something cherished. What if maintaining all those babbling by my past self is just another such rope holding me back that I just haven't realized yet? Well, I could always use a spare coil of paracord and an old friend on the road.
diff --git a/org/2020.org b/org/2020.org
@@ -96,3 +96,33 @@ Here's to the end of Skywalker saga, and whatever comes after generation Z!
除了技术性的之外，我已经有一段时间没有阅读任何书籍了，至少没有任何足以被称为文学作品的书籍。我想在 2020 年改变这种状况。
为天行者系列的终结以及我很好奇会被如何命名的 Z 世代之后出现的一代干杯！
+
+* TODO Staring at Yesterday in One Eye
+:PROPERTIES:
+:EXPORT_DATE: 2020-01-06
+:EXPORT_HUGO_SLUG: staring-at-yesterday-in-one-eye
+:END:
+
+** DONE en
+:PROPERTIES:
+:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: 2020-01-06-staring-at-yesterday-in-one-eye.en.md
+:EXPORT_TITLE: Staring at Yesterday in One Eye
+:END:
+
+The dead speak! The galaxy has heard a mysterious broadcast, a record of *THE PAST* in the familiar yet distant tone of *MY OLD SELF*.
+
+*** A Link to the Past
+Alright, that's enough puns and /The Rise of Skywalker/ jokes from me. As mentioned before, my blog was originally using WordPress and switched to Hugo in 2017-09-01. To be more specific, I actually had two WordPress blogs: one named Pandora (because of Borderlands 2, but this is such an cliche name that I'm sure there's a million other imaginary planets using this name) hosted with WordPress.com, and another being Library of Trantor (because of Isaac Asimov's /Foundation/ series) hosted on Bluehost, with the former written in English and latter in Chinese. Since I kept archives of both before taking them down, I was able to revive all those old posts from the grave using [[https://github.com/SchumacherFM/wordpress-to-hugo-exporter][this tool]] and some elbow grease.
+
+Handling images is tricky and my old posts made quite liberal uses of them unfortunately: I opted for the simplest way out and just kept the originals without any kind of fancy compression or styling. I still need to figure out a more efficient way to both store and serve those images. Even with Git LFS available, I was reluctant to add all 300+ Megabytes of images to my blog repository (so they are currently in untracked-land), and now my blog could definitely benefit from a CDN setup unless I find an efficient way to compress all of them (maybe do what Jupyter notebooks do: encode images in base64 to get a single HTML file).
+
+Through out the years, I've used WordPress, Disqus, Duoshuo (now defunct), and Isso as my comment systems. Now, my [[https://git.shimmy1996.com/shimmy1996/hugo-hyperskip][Hyperskip]] has superseded them all: it's the one true static comment system to end all comment systems! Taking inspiration from [[https://staticman.net/][Staticman]], I also store all the comments as a TOML file, but opted to use email as submission method, making the process much easier. Gone are the days of databases, queries, and external scripts, and I get to version control all the comments in the same Git repository as my blog. The ongoing search for the ideal commenting system is finally over for me (until it starts again).
+
+I refrained myself from leaving out any of the old posts, as the main motivation of this effort is really just to be able to easily see and be reminded of my older self. It's a strange yet familiar experience reading those old writings: I can see parts of me that has changed and parts that are still distinctively =shimmy1996=.
+
+*** The Other Old Friend
+One week into the New Year and I have already switched color scheme of the website five times, with another twenty sitting in my folder (totally not because of how unsightly these RGB color codes are). Much like how I'm a bit burned out from trying to [[/en/posts/2019-12-01-fun-with-fonts-on-the-web/][get fonts right for everything]], I have decided to remove all custom color choices from the website: no syntax highlighting, no fancy buttons, and no dark modes.
+
+Tags and categories are gone, too. As long as there are little knobs that I can play around with, I always find myself distracted and spending way too much time worrying about the most insignificant choice of words, colors, or spacing (as you can tell by how much of I blog about the blog). The only cure I found is to simply remove the opportunities of making those choices altogether, and stick with the default.
+
+Completely contrast to how the saying normally goes, I hardly ever find myself missing the things I cut away. More often than not, I sympathize with the elephant that finally broke free from the rope, rather than feeling the emptiness for losing something cherished. What if maintaining all those babbling by my past self is just another such rope holding me back that I just haven't realized yet? Well, I could always use a spare coil of paracord and an old friend on the road.