John DeTreville
John DeTreville

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This blog is hosted at GitHub Pages and constructed using Publii.

GitHub Pages is dead-simple and free for personal blogs.

This blog is a static website. All pages are served straight from GitHub Pages, with no other server-side processing.

I started an old blog a few years ago using Jekyll, but I grew tired of wondering whether Jekyll would be maintained very far into the future. I've finally switched to Publii instead; it seems a little more modern. We'll see!

When I publish a post, I intend not to update it. If an existing post needs updates, I'll mark up the post to show what has been changed.

This article was updated on June 19, 2022

A Computer Scientist and general systems guy from WAY back. “BORN: Isle of Wight, September 15, 1807. Shipped as a cabin boy on the Florence J. Marble, 1815. Arrested for bigamy and murder in Port Said, 1817. Released 1820. Wrote A Tale of Two Cities. Married Princess Anastasia of Portugal, 1831… Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1850… Began Les Misérables, 1870, finished by Victor Hugo Died 1871. Buried in Westminster Abbey.”—Robert Benchley