Site Updates

2023

26 octobre

Complex Recursion has an updated look using some very spiffy fonts from the DaFont repository:

The website is still built on the hand-coded XHTML and CSS work I did all the way back in high school. It doesn't have the fancy features of a dynamically generated content management system, but it's absolutely standards compliant and thus highly robust across browsers and platforms.

12 octobre

Complex Recursion is now updating via Microsoft Visual Studio Code and ForkLift 4 on my handy new (used) Mac Mini, suppplanting Notepad++ and WinSCP on my Windows desktop.

9 juillet

Complex Recursion's virtual server has been updated to Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish) and also upgraded to the next hardware tier in order to have sufficient space to host my increasingly large photo galleries.

6 avril

Complex Recursion now has its very own domain name and web address, and is also now being served over secure HTTPS thanks to Let's Encrypt and certbot. Needless to say, I totally endorse both of these free and open services.

2 avril

It appears that the old Caltech UGCS web server finally crossed into the digital beyond sometime around mid-2021. This was a student-run Unix computing cluster whose official role in supporting undergraduate CS courses was already fading into quasi-official when I was there, and which appears to have had no new student admins in almost a decade. It was thus something of a zombie legacy which lasted until campus facilities happened to repurpose the long abandoned physical space where the hardware was located. It is quite certainly not coming back, which is actually rather sad as it dated all the way back to the prehistoric computing days of the 1989 "CS10 Lab" class.

Since my interest in running my own web server just because I can has long since run its course, I've settled on a virtual server on Digital Ocean as an inexpensive and straightforward option for resurrecting and continuing my website.