Site history
This page explains how I rebuilt the earlier site and decided what belongs on vallery.net now. Authorship, privacy, provenance, rights, and actual editorial value still determine whether something becomes public.
Discovery
I compared Wayback, feeds, WordPress, Common Crawl, my own backups, and surviving derivatives.
Selection
Before something becomes public, I need to know who wrote it, where it came from, whether anyone’s privacy is involved, and whether it is worth reading.
Preservation
Some material belongs in a private archive even when it does not belong on a public biography or site.
01
Editorially curated
I assigned an explicit disposition to all 59 known entry records. Thirty-two technical posts and seven essays form the opening Writing collection. I retired twenty thin, incomplete, default, test, or superseded records.
Public disposition: Five superseded entries redirect to a real replacement. Fifteen entries without an equivalent return HTTP 410 Gone. The thirty-nine selected articles live together under Writing.
39 / 20
02
Reconciled
Thirty successful About-page captures collapse into seven distinct body states across the site’s history.
Public disposition: I retired the thin historical About derivative. Its route now redirects to the current first-person biography.
30 / 7
03
Reconciled
I checked 282 HTTP-200 rows in 139 case-normalized collision groups against their timestamps and capture digests.
Public disposition: The collision states support provenance and redirect decisions. I did not publish duplicate bytes as duplicate pages.
282
04
Cataloged
Five local-news RSS bridge states and three request-echo debugger states survive as exact captures.
Public disposition: I describe what I built, but I do not republish Times-Call article bodies or request samples that may contain user-submitted data.
5 + 3
05
Documented
Recovered pages establish a working Pligg-based social-news and RSS lineage, including client-code continuity across the rename.
Public disposition: I include the project in Work and the timeline as a small system I customized, ran, and learned from.
2006–08
06
Held for review
Alternative archives recovered nine of sixteen previously unresolved gallery and photo bodies, plus nine SmugMug derivatives.
Public disposition: I am keeping the bodies and images off the public site until identity, ownership, rights, privacy, and editorial-value review is complete.
9 / 16
07
Held
Twenty-eight timestamped records and one undated empty record survive in the historical accounting.
Public disposition: I cataloged the surface instead of republishing it because it mixes thin records, personal media, and unresolved reuse questions.
28 + 1
08
Not republished
A private catalog preserves the historical comment record.
Public disposition: The comments contain spam, third-party writing, obsolete contact data, and private material. They are not my authored site content.
433
09
Private review
Recovered image bytes are in one private, deduplicated review folder with a provenance manifest and contact sheets.
Public disposition: I am not putting a historical image in the public repository or site until it passes the media publication gates on its own.
Review set
10
Preserved privately
A dated database and wp-content snapshot, export, restore test, and live-content drift check preserve the predecessor system.
Public disposition: I keep WordPress as a fallback, not as the ongoing writing or publication platform.
Rollback
Corrections
A stronger primary source can narrow or correct a page. It cannot silently rewrite the original historical body. Corrections belong in context, provenance, or a visibly dated editorial note.