Migrating from Mezzanine CMS to static page generation
As the effort of keeping a complex Python software stack serviced outweighed the outcome, I migrated my little weblog to a static website generator.
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How to counter vCard address book "bit rot"
After a few years and mobile device generations the state of my address book was somewhat frustrating: Starting with Nokia Symbian S60 (SyncML) over to early Android (using Backups), on to BlackBerry 10 (Card/CalDAV backend) and ultimately back to Android (using a sync app) has introduced numerous duplications and invisible character additions by the respective address book apps (the Samsung Contacts app being the worst in that respect).
How to get Mezzanine up and running on cPanel shared hosting
The follwing articles were of much use when switching this weblog from the no longer maintained Nucleus to Mezzanine, a modern blog and content management system, based on the Django web application framework and Python: