drew's blog

So I was cleaning up my server.

You know, like a good digital adult — spring cleaning databases, clearing out old WordPress installs I wasn’t using. I saw one called:

wordpress

And thought:
“Surely that’s just a leftover from testing… right?”

💥 DROP DATABASE wordpress;
😐 Instant silence.
😨 Blog gone.

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😅 Recovery Mode

Luckily, past me had stashed a backup:
wp_njoo_20241231_backup.sql — shoutout to December Drew for having foresight.

A quick import later, and the blog was back.
But while I was in there, I figured — let’s fix the naming sin.

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🎯 Renamed wordpress → drew_blog

Because:

• It’s a real blog now.
• I don’t want to drop it again.
• wordpress is a cursed name.

Also had to fix:

• MySQL user permissions
• wp-config.php credentials
• Apache restarts
• My existential panic

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💡 What I Learned

• Don’t name your production database wordpress. Or test. Or prod. Use actual names like drew_blog.
• Backups are love. Backups are life.
• It’s fine. You live. You learn. You blog about it.

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🌏 What Did I Do Between 2024 and May 2025?

• I traveled through Asia.
• Started a few projects.
• Sunset some that felt flat.
• Learned a lot about what I don’t want to build.

Now I’m clearing the ground for what comes next.