Hello again, world! For the last several months, this blog was offline simply because I neglected to renew the VPS that I was hosting it on, and I didn't bother to rectify the situation since this blog was always a hobby project to begin with. I finally scrounged up some spare time over the winter holidays to do just that.

Several years back I migrated from Wordpress to Pelican for a variety of reasons, one of them being the reduced maintenance burden at a much lower cost. At the time I thought hosting a static blog on my own self-maintained …