Tinkering is a great advantage, and a great disadvantage. The nature of my mind is to tinker: to push at boundaries, to play with the component parts, to experiment. But the nature of my mind is to also procrastinate: to attach onto easier, more immediate and interesting tasks rather than those more complicated—and perhaps more meaningful—endeavors.

Actual writing is one of them.

I can fiddle endlessly with the backend. A small change here, a quick fix there, and six months have passed where I did nothing but make behind-the-scenes changes that are, ultimately, unimportant compared to the purpose of a blog.

And so I’ve moved to Tumblr.

Tumblr is a hosted system. Beyond modifying the front-end code and design of the blog, I have limited-to-no control of how the backend functions. This does have drawbacks, but the benefits are obvious: content, content, content.

So here goes.

Legacy Content

There’s a large amount existing content, and Tumblr did not provide an easy or immediately obvious way of redirecting to existing content. It is intent on taking over an entire (sub)domain. As such, I’ve made this blog occupy the blog subdomain, leaving the main domain for legacy content.

This should mean that those older posts which are directly linked—like the Inconsolata-dz post—will continue to function as normal.