What Changed in the 2024 Update to Wez Furlong's Website

The February 10, 2024 update was mainly a rebuild of the site's foundation rather than a content overhaul. In the post "Blowing out some cobwebs," Wez Furlong says the site moved from Jekyll to Material for MkDocs, refreshed some personal and project information, added a newer photo, and introduced a Dark Mode. The same post makes clear that a return to regular blogging is not promised.

The platform change: Jekyll to Material for MkDocs

The most concrete change is the switch away from Jekyll. According to the post, the site had been running on Jekyll, and Dependabot had repeatedly flagged Ruby ecosystem security issues tied to that setup. Migrating to Material for MkDocs was intended to stop those alerts from recurring.

For readers, this is mostly invisible. The visible result is the same kind of personal site, now built on a different static-site toolchain. The post does not describe any change to the site's URL structure, archives, or older posts, so there is no stated reason to expect old links to behave differently.

Content and interface updates

Alongside the platform move, the update included:

• Refreshed personal and project information — the About material and project listings were brought up to date.
• A newer photo — the author notes he added a more recent picture of himself.
• Dark Mode — described in the post as "the fanciest part of this update."

The post frames these as light housekeeping after a long gap, not a redesign of the blog's purpose or scope.

Will there be more frequent posts?

Probably not on a fixed schedule. The post's own heading asks whether this means blogging more than "once a decade," and the answer is "I'm not sure." The author invites topic suggestions via his Mastodon account, @[email protected], but commits to nothing.

That matters if you are visiting the site expecting a steady stream of new articles: the archive spans 2003 through 2024, and the 2024 entry is a single short post. The site remains more useful as a record of past writing and project references than as an active blog.

What this means for visitors

If you came for a specific older article or project page, the update does not appear to have removed anything — the post describes additions and a platform swap, not deletions. If you came to see whether the site is actively maintained, the 2024 post is the signal: it was dusted off and modernized, but the author explicitly leaves open whether new writing will follow. For contact or mentoring inquiries, the site points to the author's Mastodon presence rather than a blog comment system.