{"id":5682,"date":"2026-08-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/2026\/blog\/about\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:00:00","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/timothycomeau.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"archive-home about-content\">\n<h1>About the blog<\/h1>\n<p>Like many at the turn of the century, I began blogging in the early 2000s, maintaining a steady output between 2002 and 2014. Some posts dating back to the 1990s were retroactive additions from my old notebooks and school papers. By 2015, I felt a pull toward digital privacy and decided to take the archives offline.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, I considered returning to it and posted a few pieces, but it didn&#8217;t go anywhere. Posts later from 2019 have been adapted from my journals.<\/p>\n<p>Recent advances in AI-assisted coding allowed me to parse the legacy backups into this flat-file system. This setup keeps the archive browsable, searchable, and preserved while providing a streamlined home for new content. This latest iteration was coded in February and March 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Comeau<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/timothycomeau.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/timothycomeau.com<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the blog Like many at the turn of the century, I began blogging in the early 2000s, maintaining a steady output between 2002 and 2014. Some posts dating back to the 1990s were retroactive additions from my old notebooks and school papers. By 2015, I felt a pull toward digital privacy and decided to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5682","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timothycomeau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timothycomeau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timothycomeau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timothycomeau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timothycomeau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timothycomeau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timothycomeau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}