This year marks the 20th anniversary of my humble domain lucidprocess.com. I must say it does make me feel quite old.

I never really had a concrete plan for the site, the name was always somewhat abstract and while I did want some form of online portfolio I also just really wanted to have my own little place where I could play around with the latest web technologies I was reading about at the time.

Something I always find funny is how both surprising and unsurprising change across the ages can be. I can remember back to when I first started playing with the web while I was in secondary school, creating static html files and then using an FTP client to upload them directly to the server. It seems crazy now to think that's how we used to do things, no source control, no CI and certainly no tests.

Like a lot of engineers one of the first languages I picked up was PHP and lucidprocess ran quite happily on some very primitive PHP code for the first few years of it's existence. No fancy frameworks or libraries just raw PHP files uploaded to a host using good old FileZilla.

In 2008 luidprocess received it's first significant architecural update when it moved to WordPress and switched hosting providers to MediaTemple. It's nice to see WordPress still going strong despite the recent controversy, MediaTemple though was acquired and killed off by GoDaddy unfortunately.

The early 2010s feel like somewhat of a daydream to me, however in 2013 I began working with the .NET framework and certainly remember falling out of love with PHP well before then. WordPress was abandoned and the site switched to a more minimal single page design with only a few links to my LinkedIn profile and some projects I was working on at the time.

Sadly the site remained in that state until mid 2020 when due to the abundance of free time and a renewed passion for the web thanks to a new job lucidprocess was brought back to life rebuilt in Next.js and hosted on Vercel.

In October 2025 lucidprocess saw another seismic shift in both technology and hosting to Tanstack Start and Cloudflare Workers. This was the first time in the history of the site where the change was driven by ethics and not by allowing a renewal to lapse or becoming unsatisfied with the technology. I plan to write about ethics and pragmatism in tech in a future post and hope the content is more entertaining than the title would suggest.

This brings us to the present where for now I'm fairly happy with how things are. At least for a few months or so.