---
title: "It's been a while"
url: 'https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/its-been-a-while'
markdown: 'https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/its-been-a-while.md'
date: '2012-12-30'
description: 'Many months have passed since my last post, and a lot has happened. And, by now, you have probably noticed one big change — this site is not running gasp or drupal (or wordpress for that matter). I was playing around with gasp, in hopes of modifying it to work in a database-less (XML) mode. First, …'
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    - Journal
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    - gasp
    - wordpress
---

# It's been a while

## [It's been a while](https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/its-been-a-while)

    30th Dec 2012   [drupal](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:drupal#body-wrapper) [gasp](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:gasp#body-wrapper) [wordpress](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:wordpress#body-wrapper)  

Many months have passed since my last post, and a lot has happened.

And, by now, you have probably noticed one big change — this site is not running gasp or drupal (or wordpress for that matter).

I was playing around with gasp, in hopes of modifying it to work in a database-less ([XML](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML "XML")) mode. First, I messed with [sqLite](https://sqlite.org/ "SQLite"), then I moved onto pure file-based solutions.

That was when I stumbled upon [Get Simple CMS](https://get-simple.info). It had already implemented a lot of what I was trying to achieve.

And, the features that GS is missing (like integration with [audio.js](https://kolber.github.com/audiojs/)), I can easily implement in plugins to share with the community.

Aside from the change in cms, you are probably seeing a change in [URL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_locator "Uniform resource locator"): stevenjaycohen.com has become sjc.sdf.org

I recently migrated my site over to [sdf.org](https://sdf.org), a Public Access [Unix](https://www.unix.org "Unix") system that has been online since 1987. I like supporting groups like SDF, in part, because they keep the original spirit of the internet alive.

And, owning my own domain, started to feel like overkill (or maybe hubris — I’m not exactly certain). I just didn’t need it anymore.

I’m still figuring everything out here at SDF, but expect things to evolve over here as I continue to explore and learn.

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