This website has existed since 2004 as sspaeti.com. This page illustrates the journey in a filmstrip, taken from the Wayback Machine.
It all started with a hand-written HTML, CSS, and PHP page, added a Forum, went to WordPress, and then to GoHugo, which I still use today, but I added my Obsidian second brain to the public one with Quartz. Want to see the latest detailed changes visually from 2021 onwards?
See →Visual Changelog.
The website sspaeti.com HTML · CSS · PHP
Hand-written in PHP/HTML/CSS in Swiss German, a local party guide, long before Facebook. Picture section with comments and login, news, and a guest form. The domain was registered this year. Open capture ↗
The forum years phpBB 2
‘The Forum to the webpage’, a phpBB board that ran from 2005 to 2014: Small Talk, Going Out, forum excursions, regional football, and other rooms. At this capture, its members had written 36,878 posts. By 2008, it was over 43,000. Open capture ↗
The first blog post WordPress · MH Magazine Lite
‘ORDER BY Oracle vs. Microsoft SQL’, published 20 September 2015, the first of five posts that year. The blog launched on the free MH Magazine Lite theme, which no archive ever captured. This is the post in its earliest capture, from 2019, already in the later theme. Open capture ↗
Updated to a portfolio page WordPress · Flatoo
On 14 April 2017, the blog switched to the Flatoo one-page theme: ‘I’m Simon Späti, Business Intelligence Specialist & passionate about data’. About, skills, experience, and the blog as the last menu item. The background image is Frederiksberg Slot, where I lived at that time. Open capture ↗
The blog page under Flatoo WordPress · Flatoo blog layout
Flatoo’s blog pages: the ‘Learn for Life’ banner (a mantra that has stayed with me to this day), a sidebar with search, categories, and recent comments. The latest post here is Data Warehouse vs Data Lake, ETL vs ELT, one of the most read at that time, and still current. Open capture ↗
New Page with Hugo Hugo · uBlogger
One year on GoHugo, still on sspaeti.com. The Data Engineering Blog branding, a featured post up top, and dark mode as the default. Open capture ↗
A post on the Hugo theme Hugo · uBlogger
The same kind of page as the Flatoo blog five years earlier: a post card with breadcrumb, description, reading time, and a table of contents in the right gutter. Data Orchestration Trends, June 2022. Open capture ↗
The Second Brain goes public Quartz · Obsidian
‘This is the beginning of my Second Brain with all notes from my Zettelkasten that I feel worth sharing’. Published from Obsidian with Quartz, backlinks and an interactive graph from day one. Open capture ↗
ssp.sh, one landing page Hugo · uBlogger
New domain, three letters short and easy to memorize. Blog and second brain share one front door for the first time. Open capture ↗
The Second Brain moves to ssp.sh Quartz · Obsidian
The brain follows the blog onto the new domain, with a map of content, search, and the Kanagawa dark theme aligned with the blog/main page, as still used (modified) today. Open capture ↗
A post on new Hugo page Hugo · uBlogger
The first part of the Data Modeling for Data Engineering series, as it looked on the new domain: same uBlogger layout as the year before, Iosevka headings, table of contents on the right. Open capture ↗
The graph era Hugo · D3 graph · FlexSearch
Latest version, with a draggable node graph as the hero to reflect the interconnected pages and features. Unified search, memories, and the visual changelog. Find all the latest changes since 2011 at the Visual Changelog. Open site ↗
A post today Hugo · uBlogger
Why I Still Blog, as it reads right now: callouts and footnotes in the margin, the table of contents on the left, the interactive graph at the end. Open site ↗
The Second Brain today Hugo · Quartz-derived
1000+ notes with NEW and UPD badges, note growth states, a unified search with the blog, and the same Kanagawa theme on both sides of the site. Open site ↗