added categories and a great deal of edits to get things sorted for the new system

README.md

@@ -12,10 +12,8 @@ From scratch:
   - install git and python 3 if they aren't already
   - `pip install "pelican[markdown]"`
   - `pip install pelican-render-math`
-  - somewhere else, `git clone https://github.com/fle/pelican-sober.git`
-    - in `static/images/icons`, put an akkoma icon
-      - first time I did this, I used `curl -o akkoma-18px.png 'https://joinfediverse.wiki/thumb.php?f=Akkoma.svg&width=18'`
-    - in `static/css/main.css`, add the line `.social a[href*='tinylad.social'] + i:before {content: url('../images/icons/akkoma-18px.png'); }` in an appropriate spot
+  - `pip install markdown-captions`
+  - somewhere else, `git clone git@github.com:jmelesky/pelican-sober.git`
   - put the path to that repo in `THEME` in `pelicanconf.py` in this repo
 
 ## Running locally

content/blog/2016-08-25-different-distances.md

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 title: Different Measures of Distance
 tags: geometry
 description: A few different ways of calculating distance in noncontinuous 2d spaces
+category: math
 ---
 
 How far is it from one place to another? How does that change if
@@ -300,7 +301,7 @@ using the un-floored numbers produce a more coherent image.
     might keep track of *whether* a certain word shows up in a
     document, rather than *how many times* it shows up. When those two
     situations coincide, Hamming distance becomes more palatable and
-    tractable than Euclidean distance.]
+    tractable than Euclidean distance.
 
 
 

content/blog/2016-08-29-distances-redux.md

@@ -2,10 +2,13 @@
 title: Distance Measures Redux -- Unifying and Tweaking
 tags: geometry
 description: Revisiting discrete distance measures and tweaking them
+category: math
+date: 2016-08-29
+modified: 2023-09-20
 ---
 
 After [talking about distance
-calculations](/posts/2016-08-25-different-distances.html) the other
+calculations](/2016/08/25/different-measures-of-distance.html) the other
 day, I was thinking about how we could generalize the measures.
 
 Looking back on the D&D distance calculation, I think it can encompass
@@ -51,7 +54,7 @@ $$d = \max(x_d, y_d) - \min(x_d, y_d) + 1 \times (\min(x_d, y_d))$$
 
 Those $\min$'s cancel out completely:
 
-$$d = \max(x_d, y_d)
+$$d = \max(x_d, y_d)$$
 
 ... which is, again, exactly how we calculate Civ distance. Excellent,
 well done!

content/blog/2016-09-01-trail-series-injury.md

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 title: The Trail Run in which I Injure Myself
 tags: running, portland trail series
 description: I finished, and didn't die, but limped most of the last half after pulling something
+category: life
 ---
 
 As some of you know, this summer I ran in the [Portland Trail

content/blog/2016-09-09-resurrecting-zombies.md

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 title: Resurrecting Zombies
 tags: haxe, games, zombie protagonist
 description: Digging up and dusting off some decade-old code to see if it works with a months-old compiler.
+category: coding
 ---
 
 About ten years ago, I decided to write [a flash

content/blog/2016-09-10-resurrecting-zombies-part-2.md

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 title: Resurrecting Zombies, Part 2
 tags: coding, haxe, games, zombie protagonist
 description: Going through a bunch of compiler errors to get the old code at least a bit closer to working.
+category: coding
 ---
 
 ### `Actor should be Void`

content/blog/2016-10-05-union-all-views.md

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 title: Partitioning Without Partitions
 tags: SQL
 description: I look at an old SQL hack for partitioning called "UNION ALL views".
+category: coding
 ---
 
 One of the common modern features of relational databases is the ability to partition tables. "Partition" can mean a few different things, but in this case, I'm talking about the common use-case of 1- taking a large table, 2- splitting it up into smaller tables, but 3- still accessing those tables as if they were a single table. There are some benefits to partitioning, particularly around maintenance tasks. Smaller tables mean swifter table scans, faster table operations, and faster histogram generation, not to mention the opportunity for more widely varied histograms for your data.

content/blog/2016-10-07-union-view-tricks.md

@@ -2,9 +2,12 @@
 title: Uses for UNION ALL and Views
 tags: SQL
 description: A few things you can pull off with some SQL that are not hacks to get partitioning
+category: coding
+date: 2016-10-07
+modified: 2023-09-20
 ---
 
-Right, so [yesterday](/posts/2016-10-05-union-all-views.html)[^yesterday], I talked about one of the cooler historical SQL hacks out there. Turns out you can (perhaps somewhat incompletely) replicate useful features purely with pure SQL99 (and pure SQL92[^sqlold]). There are, in fact, several additional fun ways to use the `UNION` operator in conjunction with views, and I'd like to talk about them.
+Right, so [yesterday](/2016/10/05/partitioning-without-partitions.html)[^yesterday], I talked about one of the cooler historical SQL hacks out there. Turns out you can (perhaps somewhat incompletely) replicate useful features purely with pure SQL99 (and pure SQL92[^sqlold]). There are, in fact, several additional fun ways to use the `UNION` operator in conjunction with views, and I'd like to talk about them.
 
 ### The Now Partition
 

content/blog/2017-07-31-why-learn-rust.md

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 title: Why Am I Learning Rust?
 tags: rustlang
 description: A short note about skills and practice
+category: coding
 ---
 
 Professionally speaking, I'm no longer a software developer, and haven't been for a few years[^DBA]. Indeed, my time on the operations side of the aisle has done nothing but increase my preference towards proven, off-the-shelf solutions. Not Invented Here? Great, sign me up!

content/pages/about.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Title: About
 Date: 2016-08-28
 Modified: 2023-09-20
 Author: john melesky
+category: about
 ---
 Hello, I'm John.
 
@@ -25,12 +26,12 @@ animation that would later make a decent GIF.
 Enchanted, rather than deterred, by those early programming
 experiences, I've tinkered with software ever since, most of that time
 in some professional capacity. Let me know if you're [interested in
-working with me](/work.html), or for that matter if you're [interested
-in some small things I've built](/stuff.html). I've also been known to
-[speak at conferences](/talks.html), if that's your thing.
+working with me](/work.html), or for that matter if you're interested
+in some small things I've built. I've also been known to speak at
+conferences, if that's your thing.
 
 If you wish to get in touch with me, then you can email me at an
-address comprised of the word "site", an at sign (@), and the domain
+address comprised of my first name, an at sign (@), and the domain
 name this site is hosted on (a ".org" domain named after a longtime
 pseudonym, "phaedrusdeinus"). I don't have a strong history of
 correspondence, but I will try to get back to you.
@@ -51,6 +52,6 @@ Pelican uses
 and I'm using several included plugins plus
 [markdown-captions](https://github.com/evidlo/markdown_captions).
 
-I use emacs, git, [the gimp](https://www.gimp.org/), and
+I use emacs, git, [gimp](https://www.gimp.org/), and
 [gogs](http://gogs.io/) in the construction and maintenance of the
 site.

content/pages/work.md

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 title: Me, Professionally
 date: 2016-07-26
 modified: 2023-09-20
+category: about
 ---
 
 I've been in the industry since before the dot-com boom of the late