Rewriting a 20-year-old Python library

Way back in 2005, lots of people (ordinary people, not just people who work in tech) used to have personal blogs where they wrote about things, rather than using third-party short-form social media sites. I was one of those people (though I wasn’t yet blogging on this specific site, which launched the following year). And back in 2005, and even earlier, people liked to have comment sections on…