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opened 2026-09-10 14:26:13 -04:00 by matt · 1 comment
matt commented 2026-09-10 14:26:13 -04:00
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Given the old git repos of former site iterations, see what we can find about older sites, the OG crystal site, and old homelab hardware.

Ported from GitLab matt/website#20 (2025-10-24) when GitLab was retired; the original repo is archived at https://gitlab.goober.cloud/matt/website/-/issues/20.

Given the old git repos of former site iterations, see what we can find about older sites, the OG crystal site, and old homelab hardware. --- _Ported from GitLab `matt/website#20` (2025-10-24) when GitLab was retired; the original repo is archived at https://gitlab.goober.cloud/matt/website/-/issues/20._
matt commented 2026-09-10 14:29:11 -04:00
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Research dump for this issue, gathered autonomously so the writeup has raw material.
Nothing here is published — it's findings for you to turn into prose.

What the old repos actually contain

  • matt/oldwebsite-jekyll — 33 commits, but the content was dumped as a single commit
    ("old jekyll slop", 2025-10-28). There is no deep git history to mine: the repo tracks the
    final state of the Jekyll era, not its evolution.
  • matt/oldwebsite-static — 1 commit, and it IS site 2: style.css plus
    index.html, linux/, contact.html, onions.html, bucknellwtf.html, bob/.
  • Both are mirrored on Forgejo with full history (that mirroring is why these are readable at all).

Corrections/additions to the site-history page

  • The first site was on xhec.us — so the hostnames read xhec.us -> xhec.dev v1 ->
    xhec.dev v2 -> mattcompton.dev. The page currently only names sites 1-4 by that scheme.
  • Old pages link the Crystal project as getcryst.al (now dead; the whole
    crystal-linux GitHub org is archived, 39 repos, all pointing at their new home).
  • Old pages also link github.com/crystal-linux/branding/raw/main/banners/tuxad.png — a
    Crystal banner Matt embedded on several pages, if that's useful colour.

The #TODO on the site-history page ("find a link to the Crystal CSS")
Attempted and not resolved — recording it so nobody repeats the search:

  • Matt's reused stylesheet is ~1.9 KB with an "IBM Plex Mono", "JetBrains Mono", "Fira Mono"
    stack and a linear-gradient(to top, #111111, #424242) body.
  • The crystal-linux org's getcryst.al, site and webforge repos were all checked: no file
    matches, by fingerprint or by exact line.
  • Only 4 versions of getcryst.al/style.css exist in the Wayback Machine (earliest page snapshot
    2021-10-17, stylesheet snapshots 2022-01-19, 2022-08-16, 2022-09-02). The 2022-01-19 one
    shares #424242 + linear-gradient but is 13.6 KB with no monospace stack; the others share
    nothing. So Matt's copy is a derivative or a private version, not any archived revision.
  • Conclusion: the original is probably unrecoverable, or lived somewhere the Wayback Machine
    never crawled.     The #TODO marker has been left in place rather than filled with a link that
    can't be verified — a wrong link is worse than an acknowledged gap.

(Findings posted autonomously by Hermes; ported from GitLab issue #20.)

Research dump for this issue, gathered autonomously so the writeup has raw material. Nothing here is published — it's findings for you to turn into prose. **What the old repos actually contain** - `matt/oldwebsite-jekyll` — 33 commits, but the *content* was dumped as a single commit ("old jekyll slop", 2025-10-28). There is no deep git history to mine: the repo tracks the final state of the Jekyll era, not its evolution. - `matt/oldwebsite-static` — 1 commit, and it IS site 2: `style.css` plus `index.html`, `linux/`, `contact.html`, `onions.html`, `bucknellwtf.html`, `bob/`. - Both are mirrored on Forgejo with full history (that mirroring is why these are readable at all). **Corrections/additions to the site-history page** - The first site was on **xhec.us** — so the hostnames read xhec.us -> xhec.dev v1 -> xhec.dev v2 -> mattcompton.dev. The page currently only names sites 1-4 by that scheme. - Old pages link the Crystal project as **getcryst.al** (now dead; the whole `crystal-linux` GitHub org is archived, 39 repos, all pointing at their new home). - Old pages also link `github.com/crystal-linux/branding/raw/main/banners/tuxad.png` — a Crystal banner Matt embedded on several pages, if that's useful colour. **The `#TODO` on the site-history page ("find a link to the Crystal CSS")** Attempted and **not resolved** — recording it so nobody repeats the search: - Matt's reused stylesheet is ~1.9 KB with an `"IBM Plex Mono", "JetBrains Mono", "Fira Mono"` stack and a `linear-gradient(to top, #111111, #424242)` body. - The `crystal-linux` org's `getcryst.al`, `site` and `webforge` repos were all checked: no file matches, by fingerprint or by exact line. - Only 4 versions of `getcryst.al/style.css` exist in the Wayback Machine (earliest page snapshot **2021-10-17**, stylesheet snapshots 2022-01-19, 2022-08-16, 2022-09-02). The 2022-01-19 one shares `#424242` + `linear-gradient` but is 13.6 KB with **no** monospace stack; the others share nothing. So Matt's copy is a derivative or a private version, not any archived revision. - **Conclusion: the original is probably unrecoverable, or lived somewhere the Wayback Machine never crawled.** The `#TODO` marker has been left in place rather than filled with a link that can't be verified — a wrong link is worse than an acknowledged gap. _(Findings posted autonomously by Hermes; ported from GitLab issue #20.)_
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