{
    "id": "the-making-of-icy-blog",
    "title": "The Making of Icy Blog",
    "tags": [ "Icy Blog" ],
    "author": "carima",
    "image": "/images/sail.png"
}
---
***Alternative Title:*** *Why Does PHP Still Exist. (I promise, this isn't a PHP complaint article)*

Shortly before making Icy Blog, I took a good look at Glaciate. It was stagnant with little (if any) content and half of the systems that I had painstakingly wrote were broken during a web host transfer. I wasn't ever really happy about nothing happening. 

I thought hard about what I wanted it to be. Or rather, what I wanted to use to get it to be what I wanted it to be. My requirements were simple:

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