So, after about a year(Just paid my yearly bills for the domain name and web hosting) I decided to replace the guts of my site(New design by my beautiful girlfriend).
The site had mainly become my weird obsession with observing spam comments. I coded this anti spam script, which would compare the content of a comment with a list of banned words; if a word in your comment is banned, the comment will not be submitted. I would check in regularly to see if any words had gained traction or if there were new words to ban, but not really much else.
This was what I retrieved from the database before I pulled down my old code, sorted by # times caught(I accidentally the whole table at some point, so the words have been caught more times than stated, especially viagra):
| Word | # times caught | Last catch |
|---|---|---|
| chanel | 25 | 14-01-2013 01:33 |
| payday | 13 | 15-01-2013 09:26 |
| viagra | 13 | 17-01-2013 00:36 |
| cialis | 7 | 12-12-2012 15:24 |
| louis vuitton | 5 | 12-01-2013 23:08 |
| levitra | 4 | 12-12-2012 09:32 |
| ex back | 3 | 07-12-2012 12:36 |
| ceftin | 3 | 22-11-2012 22:42 |
| propecia | 3 | 07-11-2012 05:55 |
| northface | 2 | 11-11-2012 08:04 |
| escort | 2 | 06-11-2012 00:13 |
| girlgetsring | 1 | 17-11-2012 10:47 |
| anti wrinkle | 1 | 07-11-2012 15:30 |
| http://ggrsite.com | 1 | 11-11-2012 10:25 |
| amoxil | 1 | 07-01-2013 14:21 |
| nolvadex | 1 | 11-01-2013 02:55 |
| gucci | 1 | 15-01-2013 20:43 |
| zoloft | 1 | 15-01-2013 20:43 |
| http://www.rmtest.com | 1 | 15-01-2013 20:44 |
| http://cufikiro.hotbox.ru | 1 | 02-11-2012 17:36 |
| zithromax | 1 | 01-11-2012 09:36 |
| arthritis | 1 | 29-10-2012 12:17 |
I wasn’t using the site for anything productive. I wrote the site from scratch in about one week after just one week of having first tried PHP. The admin interface I implemented was rubbish, I didn’t put any effort in to it; it was just a means to an end. Adding new content was a pain in the ass, so I couldn’t force myself to do it.
I like doing things myself, reinventing the wheel, because I believe it’s the best way to learn. But having a site I never update because it’s difficult is just stupid. So I gave up and installed WordPress. I had everything up and running in about 2 hours! Hopefully now I can start writing more.
Here’s some highlights of the old site:
My beautiful, somewhat large, header.
I had a custom game overview site. WordPress is all about blogging, so there’s not really any easy way to add a game portfolio with download links, status, etc. But I can have categories and just pretend that a regular blog post is a game showcase.
This is my own image scroller thing, written in javascript. I really fucking hate writing javascript, but I love the opportunities it opens up for making dynamic content on websites. Here’s a link to the code.
Well that’s about it. I really hope to be posting more about what I do and think in the future. In fact, even though it’s late and fucking dumb, it will be my new year’s resolution!