A website rebuild became something different: a process of sorting through old systems, old writing, and earlier versions of the same questions. What remained was less about restoration and more about understanding what was still worth carrying forward.
For a while, I thought I was rebuilding a website.
What I was actually rebuilding was continuity.
The technical problems came first — corruption, instability, old systems layered over older systems, complexity accumulating slowly until it became difficult to separate cleanly.
Some of it was preventable.
Some of it probably wasn’t.
Most long-running structures drift toward fragility eventually if left unattended.
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