Just added an update to this post: "...the original cafelog.com site is still up, however few, if any, of the links on it work. There is also a historical (but not officially archived) b2 repo on Github. There is also an entire book about WordPress on Github; see 2-b2-cafelog.md. It would seem many of the links in the book are broken; one working link is to this 2011 talk by Michel Valdrighi at WordCamp Paris 2011, however the video is no longer accessible."

daniel.industries/2024/02/29/to-find-an-alternative-to-wordpress-just-go-back-to-the-beginning/