This blog is finally back.
A Domain History of Nearly Two Decades
This domain has been active since 2008. Back then, blogging was all the rage, WordPress was the mainstream, and I followed the trend to set up my own tech blog. Over the past decade or so, servers have changed one after another—shared hosting, VPS, cloud servers, domestic and overseas, cheap and stable. I’ve lost count of the providers I’ve switched.
The result: data was lost, again and again.
Some because the server expired and wasn’t renewed, some because the provider went out of business, and some because I accidentally deleted things myself. In short, over a decade of records, and now almost nothing remains. Those technical notes, troubleshooting records, and insights written late into the night slipped through my fingers like sand.
From WordPress to Hugo
WordPress was the first platform I used—powerful and rich in plugins, but also troublesome to maintain: database backups, PHP upgrades, plugin updates, and protection against hackers. Later, static blogging rose to prominence, with Hugo, Hexo, Jekyll, and others appearing, and I considered migrating.
But migration is never easy. Data gets exported, formats don’t match; themes are changed one after another, never quite satisfactory. After all the tinkering, the blog was left idle for longer and longer, until I couldn’t even be bothered to renew the server.
In the blink of an eye, nearly twenty years have passed.
The Meaning of Tech Blogging Has Changed
I used to write blogs because I genuinely wanted to record what I learned. A bug that took all night to fix? Write about it immediately. Learned a new tool? Write a tutorial right away. Back then, there were no short videos, no paid knowledge—tech sharing relied entirely on blogs and forums.
But things are different now. AI can write code, write documentation, summarize knowledge points. Many problems that used to require searching blogs can now be solved by simply asking AI. The value of tech blogs seems to have been diluted imperceptibly.
Sometimes I wonder: why do I still blog now? Traffic? I stopped caring about that long ago. Fame? Even less relevant. Probably it’s just a simple obsession—some things are still worth keeping, for myself to see.
Can’t Write as Much, But the Habit Remains
I have to admit, age is indeed a factor.
In my twenties, I was full of energy. After an all-nighter of coding, I’d be alive and kicking the next day. Now it’s different—work, family, health each take a piece of my energy, leaving less and less time for the blog. I used to write two or three posts a week; now one a month is good.
But the habit of recording has never been lost. Only the method has changed—before, I typed every word myself; now I let AI help. It’s not laziness, but a way to continue. I organize my ideas, materials, and what I want to express, and AI polishes them into articles, which I then review, edit, and finalize. This is probably a new model of human-AI collaboration.
Just a Memorial
This time, the blog is rebuilt with Hugo + Stack theme—lightweight, simple, and stable. No database, no plugins, pure static files, sitting behind Nginx, clean and neat.
The data may never be recovered, but the domain is still here, and the habit of recording is still here. Just think of it as a memorial—a memorial to the youth spent in tech forums, to the nights spent fixing a single bug, to the young man who was once so passionate about technology.
I’ll keep writing articles. Some will be my own thoughts, some with the help of AI. Either way, this blog will continue to be updated.
I’m back, and I’m not leaving.