4 or 5 years ago, i was doing contract stuff and scavenging around for some extra work, and somebody in an open-source centric community i'm in said hey, i need a website and a forum and a mailing list and such for a project. sure thing, i said, i can just spin you up a little digitalocean box with a static site on it, install discourse, so on and so forth. we'll use mostly open source stuff, keep it simple.

fast forward a bit and i've realized that i'm going to stay in a pit of escalating debt for the rest of my life if i don't just find a salary-and-benefits kind of job, so i nominally hand off this project to someone else who's been working on it.

of no course no aspect of the handoff really works. jekyll is a disaster to tell anybody how to use. discourse is a giant blob of god knows what running in containers on a VM that no one knows how to upgrade. so on and so forth.