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Summary: In an effort to reduce complexity and lessen the technical debt we've developed our content management system (CMS), which now has some rudimentary support for images and file uploads

THIS weekend has been somewhat of an exception in the sense that it was mostly about organisation and maintenance (upgrades, backups, development). We've made further strides towards taking the sites "static", serving requests from prepared files rather than querying the databases. It'll be a long journey given the sizes of the sites in question (about a quarter million pages in total), but that needs to be done to secure the sites' future and lower the complexity of maintaining them.

"Some of us just want to deliver text to people without all this unnecessary overhead."The summer months are generally slower (less news, a lot fewer announcements are made), so we're hoping to be finished with the lion's share of migration by the end of August. European Patent Office (EPO) affairs are of strategic importance to us (tacking software patents in Europe and EPO corruption in general), but also have two series about Microsoft running at the moment. We've paced them down for improved if not maximal impact.

The video above explains what we've been up to so far this weekend and then resorts to the typical rants about the World Wide Web and the state of Web browsers. The bloat is a mutual relationship between Web 'standards' (like DRM), Web sites, and Web browsers. Bloat in the CMS sense contributes to this too. Some of us just want to deliver text to people without all this unnecessary overhead. The operating system we're moving to is Alpine. It should be absolutely fine for most sites, Git repositories, IRC networks and so on. It's minimalist and reliable. ⬆