Something I’ve been meaning to do for years, finally done: my old Blogger blogs are moving in here, one by one.

Before this blog, and running alongside it for years without me really thinking of them as related, I kept separate Blogger sites for whatever I was into at the time — fractal art, tech links, photography. They mostly went dormant, but they never got deleted, and every so often I’d think “I should really pull that lot into 0x32 someday.” Google Takeout finally made “someday” easy: it exports a Blogger blog as an Atom feed with every post’s original title, HTML body, labels, and publish timestamp intact, so nothing needs backdating by hand. A Claude Code session parsed each export, converted the posts into Hugo front matter with their real dates, and mapped Blogger’s labels onto tags — three separate imports, one per blog.

The first post on this blog went up on the 8th of August 2020, two sentences long:

Welcome to my new blog 0x32 started as I reach the age of 50.

That was six years ago. I genuinely had to check the git log twice, because it doesn’t feel like six years — it feels like I set this thing up a couple of years back at most. Where did the time go.

One positive thing that’s come out of the COVID-19 situation is that I’ve had more time to read than before.

So much so I’ve already smashed my GoodReads reading challenge for this year.

0x32 (50) years old

So it’s happened, 50 years, where did they go.

I don’t feel any different (mentally) that when I was younger, maybe a bit more grumpy and opinionated, but that’s the benefit of getting old surely?

My First Post

Welcome to my new blog 0x32 started as I reach the age of 50.