At the beginning of this week I had the idea to try chriserin.blog in the browser and found a gigalixir error page. This page gave me the cli command to restart the app that had been shutdown due to inactivity. So I do have a blog! I just need to restart it! Luckily I still have the computer from when I last worked on this blog, and even luckier, the gigalixir cli was still authenticated. I ran the command gigalixir ps:start -a chriserin-blog.

The site came up, and it was … cringe. The design was cringe. The writing was cringe. The whole thing. It needed a redesign and some fresh content, so here we are. What you see now is a more mature, stately design becoming of a software developer as aged as myself. I have the opportunity to also think about what else I could host here, and I now have a site nav where you can learn about me, my projects, what I’m doing right now, and my home. Or maybe home just takes you to the root page of this website. Stately. Mature.

I also took the opportunity to create a TIL page in the style popularized by Josh Branchaud and Jake Worth. I can now write about something I learned in a markdown file, commit it, push it and it shows up when you click the TIL link in the navbar. Every TIL is a victory, every victory is worth celebrating, and surely I’ll be celebrating often. I have much to learn.