Once upon a time I had a very dynamic site running here. Apache at first, Nginx later. PHP at some times. Wordspress at some point because I thought blogging was what sites were about.
But then, maintaing wordpress is a hassle. And one day when I was upgrading my hosted machine, I completely fucked it up, lost the backups, destroyed what was there and decided I couldn’t be bothered fixing it for a long time. I put up a few simple pages, sirious.net was gone, and I put up a page that just said: deal with it.
But here we are, 2026. I had a SQL backup of the wordpress site and we have the wayback machine. And we have agentic AI. And… I had a few 100 spare tokens to use on Air, the Agentic AI tool from the Jetbrains people.
So I wondered how much I could restore in a day. Well, turns out, a lot. I first had it trudge through the database dumps I regularly made to restore the pages. Then we used the wayback machine to find the lost images for those posts.
So, any post on this site you find that was from before 2026… it’s restored from a SQL dump file and augmented with images from the wayback machine by some claude sonnet model in Jetbrains Air. And if you don’t like it, I guess you just have to deal with it ;-)
What this is
A personal site. I’m using Hugo so it will be static and we all know… static is hard to hack.
What this isn’t
- A business
- A brand
- A community
- Your mother (I hope)
The technical bit
The site is 100% static HTML. No database, no login, no sessions, no PHP, no Node.js, no server-side anything. The files sitting on the server are exactly the files your browser downloads. This keeps it:
- Simple — nothing to maintain, update, or patch
- Fast — a CDN can cache every page
- Secure — there is no attack surface; you cannot SQL-inject a flat file
Anyway, as usual, if you don’t like it: Deal with it.