The museum
Every version of this website since 2014, restored and served exactly as it was: original markup, original stylesheets, original JavaScript, no modern chrome injected. Each one replaced the one before it for reasons that felt compelling at the time.
These are real pages, not screenshots - click around inside them. The only edits: dead trackers removed, one phone number redacted, and links rewired to point here instead of at domains I stopped paying for.
wmmclarke.com
2014 · rails 4 · heroku · jquery"Hola. This is my groovy site." A full Ruby on Rails app deployed to serve one homepage: animated skill percentages, an Isotope grid of interests (axolotls, pangolins, Hadoop), a life timeline, and a contact form with a captcha that accepted "seven". Restored from an October 2014 Wayback Machine capture, with images recovered from the repo. The Google Map died when Google started charging for maps; consider it a ruin within a ruin.
blog.wmmclarke.com
2014 · jekyll · lanyonThe vim-and-unix blog, on the Lanyon theme like everyone else's vim-and-unix blog. Rebuilt from source with Jekyll. Contains "My CV... in Pure Ruby", where the CV obsession started, and a tags page that modern Jekyll silently inflated to 39 MB before it was talked down.
the nyan era
2020 · org-mode · hugo · s3Blog posts written in one giant org-mode file, exported through Hugo, deployed to S3. Best remembered for the commit "only adding a bloody NYAN CAT" and its clarifying follow-up, "Rocket ships are ESPECIALLY important to me". The nyan cat still works. Sound on.
the ssssg era
2021-2023 · 150 lines of sh · pandocThe whole site generated by ssssg, a shell script whose final commit reads "this script has somehow grown 😱". Terminal-styled, monospaced, rocket-ship favicon. Includes the full posts archive back to 2014 and the short stories. This is the era today's site is quietly still built on.
Missing exhibits: the 2024 era was the ssssg site again, but served from a Dockerised nginx, so it looked identical - the only artefact is a Dockerfile. And choosetwo.org, a separate site whose domain lapsed, lives on as a project rather than a fossil.