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RIP first website

graveyard

Photo by Randy Fath on Unsplash

When I was building this website and blog, I looked for my old blog pages. They were hosted on aotsuae.com, a domain my dad owned for some reason.

Unfortunately, the source files got deleted from my code directory. The lf file manager (very similar to ranger) has the Shift+D key mapped to rm (delete). I accidentally triggered it and lost all the files.

Most of the files were just temporary experiments. However, the source code to the first site was in that directory. I have no backups, so it is lost to time.

Moral of the story: use trash-cli or alternatives.