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+title: "New year, new site"
+author: Tamas Nagy
+layout: post
+tags: [blog, design]
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+---
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+Ever since my (now former) hosting provider,
+[Greenqloud](https://www.greenqloud.com/), changed directions back last
+September and shutdown its public cloud offering, my site has been in a
+state of limbo. My lack of any posts for over a year didn't help the
+matter either. So I did what any rational person would(n't) do. I yanked
+the cord, brushed up on my Ruby and Liquid, and rebuilt the whole thing
+from scratch. 
+
+That's what you are seeing right now. A new site for a new year. Is it any
+better? Probably not. It's different though, I'll let you decide:
+
+![One of the earliest versions. Had a nifty time-to-read indicator. Pretty
+boring otherwise.](/assets/images/blog_really_old.png)
+
+![Previous version. It was heavily inspired by Trevor Bedford's
+[site](http://bedford.io). Spot the
+resemblance?](/assets/images/blog_old.png)
+
+Best features of the new site? I really like that I now have the following
+things:
+
+- A dedicated photos section. I like having everything self-hosted and in
+  one place.
+
+- The about page has the version information for the software used to
+  build the site.
+
+- Both the HTML and PDF versions of my CV are perfectly synced up thanks
+  to [Pandoc](http://pandoc.org).
+
+- The revision history of a post is extracted from git and shown under
+  each one. Why? Because I can.
+
+I'm also changing the focus of content on this website. I intend to use it
+as a running list of interesting software tweaks and solutions that I've
+found useful and I want to keep track of. I would also like to have more
+exploratory posts where I dive into interesting problems.
+
+Most importantly, everyone's favorite hypotrochoid is still featured on
+the site. New year, new site, same hypotrochoid.