The demise of my old personal website

I used to have a personal website with .org domain but then due to some e-mail misconfiguration managed to miss its renewal reminders some years ago. When it expired, it was immediately snatched up by someone with address in Russian-occupied part of Ukraine and turned into a generic parked website with content revolving between fishy ads and porn. I guess squatted domains are being bought and sold, and these days according to Whois it belongs to an entity in Seyschelles. The new owner currently (fishily) advertises casinos on it.

The new personal website

So, this is the new personal website! Of all free similar domains, .live was the one that looks most legit. (I learned that you don’t really want to host an .xyz domain unless you are deliberately going for a shady look.) I’m also hosting it on Cloudflare Pages, and using a static site generator for it. We’ve come far from the original days of using a Secure Copy Protocol client and manually crafting HTML! Cloudflare is also my domain registrar now with an autorenew option, so fingers crossed I don’t lose at least this one!

What’s going to be here?

Mostly a blog. Maybe something more over time.