I'M BACK!

By CSharpner · March 5, 2026

CSharpner.com Blog is Back!

After WordPress & Godaddy neglect and bitrot, CSharpner.com's blog stopped responding in July of last year (2025). I decided to migrate AWAY from BOTH WordPress AND GoDaddy and resurrected my CSharpner.com blog (that turns TWENTY this year!!!).
I'm now Self Hosting!

Expect more tech posts SOON! And expect the topics to be CURRENT, specifically related to Artificial Intelligence and all the crazy advancements happening and happening FAST!

BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!

  1. Live A.I. chatbot (see the icon in the lower right corner?). That's ME! Well, virtual me. OK, it's an LLM speaking from the persona of this blog. You can have discussions with me (I mean, my blog). It knows the contents of all my articles and can and will give you links to relevant articles. (this may be unavailable from time to time because it's actually reaching out to my home PC for the AI and if I'm using it, or my home network is down, or my PC is down (I never turn it off), it may be unavailable).

  2. Theme selector. You have 8 themes to choose from (4 light, 4 dark). See the icon in the lower left. "Terminal" is the intended theme for my blog, but I'm not forcing it on you.

  3. Newsletter sign up. Feel free to pre-sign up now. I haven't written my first news letter yet, but it's coming.

  4. Better social media sharing. New and more modern social media sharing features of each post.

  5. Recreated each posts featured image. ... and they're all generated in a theme to match the theme of my blog.

  6. Things you CAN'T see, but have an affect on what you DO se:

    1. The featured image generation I mentioned above

    2. Writing analysis powered by AI (but NONE of my posts are AI generated!)

    3. If you share to social media, you now get the relevant blog title, summary, and featured image.

  7. Polls! I can now host my own polls! [poll:592533b5-8027-4d9e-b512-d98ca6775c06]

  8. APPS! Yes! My blog has the ability to host HTML/JS apps. These are interactive features that I can add to any blog demonstrating scientific concepts and technologies.

  9. Old links YOU may have saved from all the different URL formats I've had over the decades are now FULLY SUPPORTED! Old links to my articles that exist around the internet are now revived.

So, What HAPPENED?

EXCELLENT Question! Thanks for asking! To answer... LOTS of things.

  1. This blog originated on blogger.com in September, 2006. I believe I was there until 2012, when I made my first migration.

  2. Around 2012 I THINK I migrated to another platform (Wix, maybe? I don't recall for sure) and started using my own domain name CSharpner.com.

  3. Around 2016, they shut down and I was only able to recover the text of my blogs and lost ALL of my images, both inside the blogs AND the featured images. I moved it to GoDaddy.com and was able to recover SOME of my images. I had some backed up locally, and some were still on blogger.

  4. Over the past 2 years, WordPress on my GoDaddy account was performing poorly, and frequently dying on WP updates. In July of 2025, it finally died and was unrecoverable.

  5. In the past 2 weeks (starting around the end of January of this year (2026)) I archived my entire blog and all its contents from WorPress...

  6. Lost Images: This deserves special note. I found that ALL of my images from day 1 (September 2006) through 2016 were LOST! I did find 12 posts archived on one of the internet archive sites and recovered my images for those. Then I found that my original blog on blogger IS STILL UP AND RUNNING! So I captured all of that content. So I recovered all the images from the beginning of the blog (9/2006) through 2012. All images between 2012 and 2016 are gone. So I ... just recreated new featured images for every blog post. This makes them all have the same theme, and quite frankly, the old ones were kind of lame, by comparison. I'll be slowly recreating the missing images from the old posts.

What Now?

Another GREAT question! You're on a roll!
Now, I get back to blogging and with better tools to produce better quality writing, better quality imaging, interactive animations, AI chatbot for you, and probably more being added too.

Welcome Back!

...and see you soon in the next post!