One thing I was mulling over while I was in Wales was alternatives to WordPress for this journal. Typing raw HTML is liberating, but man, it gives me a good excuse to put off updating this thing.

"Cameron, you already had the Scratchpad and you gave that up because it was too much work. Why are you going back to blogging software?"

Well, pointed question asker, I like to fiddle with shit is why. But really, part of the reason I gave up the Scratchpad was also the reason proper alternatives have escaped me until now: WordPress isn't blogging software to most people anymore. It's a CMS. I don't need a CMS, but when you look up "wordpress alternatives", Google thinks you want a CMS, so it recommends you Joomla and Drupal and, astoundingly, stuff like Wix and Squarespace, which is completely out of the scope of cammy.somnol. Fuck Squarespace and Wix.

Meanwhile, if you look up "php blogging software", you get more fitting options. I stumbled across a really lightweight, customizable one called HTMLy, which is a noSQL blogging platform that's meant to be really simple, fast, and low-overhead. You can of course write custom themes for it as well, it's pretty similar to WordPress in that regard.

I'll be testing it on the beta version of the site hosted on my home network. If you don't have access to that, there's a good chance you'll never see anything about HTMLy ever again. I'll see how it goes and what I like about it, and if its post writer works on older browsers too. This should mean nothing to you outside of possibly quicker and more frequent journal updates at some point in the future.