My blog is older than most of the tools I use to run it. The oldest posts started life on LiveJournal sometime in the early 2000s, got dragged through a WordPress import at some point in the mid-2000s, spent the better part of a decade as a Hugo site, and, about a week ago, moved into an Astro 5 site that reproduces every one of those old URLs byte for byte. That's 2,630 posts spanning 2001 to 2020, frozen exactly where they landed.
At the same time, my speaking site (106 talks going back to 2012) moved off Notist and onto something I actually own. And the tool that syncs my dev.to drafts with git finally works the way it was supposed to the whole time, instead of the way it actually did for a while.
All three of those used to be separate repos. As of earlier today, they're one monorepo, with the real git history from all three preserved, not squashed into "initial commit" and called a day. Here's the tour: how the two sites work, how dev.to fits into either of them, and a couple of things that broke in interesting ways along the trip.
The shape of it today
Three systems, one person, now one repo:
