I switched servers. Again. And this time it’s the last one.

Before anyone panics, no, I didn’t lose the posts. For once, the internet didn’t eat my homework. Every post made it across alive. Small miracles still happen.

What didn’t survive was my subscriber list. Apparently when you move servers, subscribers don’t follow. They just vanish into the digital cornfield like extras in a bad apocalypse movie. No forwarding address. No goodbye. Just gone.

So if you’re reading this, congratulations. You either found your way back or you never left. Either way, welcome to the restart nobody asked for.

You might have to subscribe again. You might not. I honestly don’t know yet. I’m figuring this out in real time with the enthusiasm of someone assembling IKEA furniture without instructions. If the button is there, click it. If it isn’t, refresh and swear quietly.

The big change is I’m done with self-hosting. No more babysitting servers. No more mysterious errors at 2 a.m. No more pretending I enjoy troubleshooting instead of writing. I moved everything to WordPress because I want the platform to work while I do the writing part.

That’s it. That’s the grand announcement. No rebrand. No pivot. No “exciting new chapter.” Same voice. Same attitude. Same refusal to pretend this is anything other than what it is.

Starting over, technically. Still here, absolutely. The archive lives. The posts live. I live. The rest will catch up or it won’t.

Now all I have to do is post. Regularly. Loudly. Without fighting my own website.

Progress.

If you want updates the old-fashioned way, there’s still RSS. Ancient technology. Still works. Unlike most things.

Eric Foltin

Ordained Pastafarian minister. Spy vs. Spy fiend. Tech-tinkering, people-dodging geocacher with punk roots and hard-earned dev chops. Runs Mad Cow Social Labs.

I make my own writing prompts because WordPress and Jetpack keep recycling the same tired questions. I pull mine from real life, irritation, and whatever won’t shut up in my head. If it’s boring, it’s dead. The results end up here:

ericfoltin.com