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This is SIGUSR2. SIGUSR2 is the blog and other stuff of Andrew Gwozdziewycz, and the name of a Signal in the POSIX specification. Not surprisingly, there is a SIGUSR1 as well.

Content is written in a lighter weight variant of markdown and published using foldr, a static site generator written in a single C file that supports templating and a basic markdown like authoring language. Why? See this post.

All content on this site, including this page, and any others, unless specifically stated, is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0, which means you are free to repurpose the site for your own use provided you share your changes, and provide attribution back to the author, me, Andrew Gwozdziewycz.

SIGUSR2 has undergone many transformations in the past, and has served as a test bed for various static blog engines, including some not written by me. In 2008, the blog received it‘s first major refresh, and its current name. It had previously been called “23 Excuses.” Select posts from “23 Excuses” were kept and republished–the rest were burned.

The refresh lasted until about 2014, when I decided to center it, change its color scheme, and rewrite all but the content. While the original modest, the name of the static blog tool I had created, used HTML, I was determined to use something more friendly, such as Markdown. I used html2text.py to get things mostly back in shape, but laziness means that there are still some entries that are broken, which I fix when I encounter them and have time to do so.

The previous iteration was put together using ssg and lowdown, and I was fairly happy with that approach. It’s, unfortunately, just a bit too primitive.

Under the hood, we‘re still served with httpd(8), on top of OpenBSD.