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+date = "2016-04-02T00:00:00+01:00"
+title = "Website update"
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+Last week-end I updated the Nine Nines website.
+
+I switched to http://gohugo.io/[Hugo]. The site is
+now built from http://asciidoc.org/[Asciidoc]
+documents. You probably saw me switch to Asciidoc
+for documentation this past year. This is the
+natural conclusion to that story. The great thing
+is that with a little bit of Makefile magic I can
+just copy the documentation files into Hugo and
+poof, they appear on the website.
+
+I am very happy with that new setup. I can now
+post my thoughts again. Woo! Expect regular posts
+from now on. I will try to replace my long series
+of tweets with posts.
+
+The sections have been rearranged. There used to
+be a separate training section; now 
+link:/services[all my services] are described in
+one page. I have also clarified my areas of
+expertise. There used to be confusion in the past,
+so now it should be clearer that I am not a
+distributed systems expert.
+
+On that note, if you are looking for my
+services right now, I'm not available. I'll have
+to work 7 days a week for a while. Try again in a
+couple months. More on that in a future post.
+
+The link:/docs[documentation] becomes a first class
+citizen. Bullet and Cowlib don't have proper
+documentation... yet. I have started working on the
+Cowlib documentation, and Bullet shouldn't take too
+long. All these projects will be documented when
+Cowboy gets to 2.0, and will all be supported
+equally. Note that the Cowboy 1.0 documentation
+still has the old website templates and links.
+Don't worry about it.
+
+The mailing lists link has been removed. I did
+announce a few months back that mailing lists were
+going to go. They're still up right now, but not
+for long. I am planning to put the archives
+read-only, link to them from a future post and
+be done with it. If you have a question, open a
+ticket on Github. Then I can just decide to leave
+the ticket open if I want to do improvements based
+on your feedback.
+
+I have replaced most of the "we" by "I". I am
+a one-man company right now. Have been for a while.
+Doesn't make sense to keep a facade. I want to be
+close to users, not put a barrier between us.
+
+The RSS changed. The old link doesn't work anymore.
+The new link is at link:/index.xml[/index.xml], 
+or link:/articles/index.xml[/articles/index.xml]
+if you only care about my posts. I guess that's the
+one most people want.
+
+I still have some tweaks to do, but it will take a
+while. My long term plan is to remove Bootstrap, use
+vanilla CSS and as little JS as possible. The reason
+for that is that it's cheaper than upgrading libraries
+every few years. Life is too short to spend it
+upgrading JS libraries.