It was broken. Really broken. Like an old, rusty cargo ship that may sink any moment, this website was full of patches and quick fixes. I was not proud of it. The database leaked, the engine was vulnerable, and support for the system had ran out years ago. While code does not get rusty, it becomes obsolete as the environment in which it runs evolves. And just like in real life, the best thing that can happen is a regular crisis that wakes us up from the dream that pretends that everything can remain the same forever. A few weeks ago, that (code) crisis finally came and the running system that never had been touched, stopped running. After this hiatus, welcome back to a shiny upgraded site with new blog smell :)

Rusty chains at Völklinger Hütte, a UNESCO world heritage site in Saarland