Recently, a simple ugprade wreaked havoc on my old blog.

I didn't even notice, to be honest- until I did a trivial search for my ebtables writeup from 2017, and the search looped back upon itself until it recused to the point of exhaustion.

Stef Dawson, a grea developer with TextPattern, hopped right in to help, wherein I discovered that the themes had changed so drastically between 4.7.3 and 4.9.1, that it would be easier to blow it out and import the database - like I did back in 2018 (coinicidentally, the same date as the 4.7.3 theme).

After a bit of introspection, I had to question why I was still running my own nameservers and a full LAMP stack for something that rarely gets any traffic, and mostly exists just to chronical what was, not what is.

I spun up a RamHost TinyKVM, and began my foray into exporting my data. Long story short, I finally used my RSS export tool since it's still an incredibly reliable format between different tools, parsed it into Markdown, and wrote out into Grav-styled directory/item files.

Other than fighting the Form/Email system for far too long (It's working now, but ugly), it didn't take all that long- although Grav's template system did have me question my sanity. Got the 3 domains that matter moved over, and I'll drop back to the registrar nameserves because I'm the only one who even notices vanity nameservers in 2026 (if you want to keep workgroups.win alive - drop me a note).