Blogging on the dev.to platform was a nice change from Tumblr. I really liked that I could embed my Github and gists to display and share code... but I wanted to do more (ie, interactive examples, command line/custom JAR demos, etc).
I recently saw one of my blog posts get some attention on LinkedIn and received an email. The image associated with my article was displayed as the DEV logo with text indicating "image no longer exists". This broken image can't be a good sign. I checked, and other articles as recent as 7 months old that I shared on LinkedIn also display the branded-DevTo fallback image. #smh
I also want better tools. I've been a ColdFusion developer for almost 30 years, and I should have stopped depending on external third parties to host my content a long time ago. Over time, I've witnessed many other ColdFusion-hosted websites migrate to WordPress or some other static "serverless" platform. As a result, I've decided to do the reverse and focus solely on building my content, more reputation and my code and do it my way... on MyCFML.
Yup, MyCFML is a 100% CFML-powered website. I considered adding one of the old-school early 90's website badges, but I didn't want to avoid increasing the target vector potential from wanna-be hackers and script-kiddies. Join me over there. I'm still working on adding the ability to comment. I wrote a commenting module many years ago and would rather spend time modernizing it than using a third-party.
Want to contact me? I'm active on X/Twitter (gamesover), LinkedIn and through my company website, SunStar Media. I'm also a member on various CF-related Slack & Facebook groups, but don't really participate in those forums much. Later!
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