The trouble with blogging engines

So, my old blog was a Word­Press–based blog, and I was gen­er­ally happy with it, other than the fact that the Tex­tile for­mat­ter would go com­pletely insane on a reg­u­lar basis and mis-format things in a way that really couldn’t be resolved. When I decided to work on a new blog — the one you’re read­ing — I seri­ously wanted to move it over to some­thing more mod­ern (e.g., not based on PHP). Since I’ve been doing a lot of Django for var­i­ous projects, that was where I planned to go … at least initially.

I looked at var­i­ous Django-based blog engines, espe­cially django-mingus, but in the end, they all seemed to be miss­ing some­thing, and I was left with the deci­sion to either write it myself, or just focus on the con­tent. And so, I ended up with Word­Press again.

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2 Comments

  1. I miss your old Bringhurst theme already. It was an island of typo­graphic sanity.

    Posted 21 April 2010 at 2:21 am | Permalink
  2. Thank you. I some­what miss it as well, but it had become quite con­strain­ing. For now, I’m going to use this one, while I work on a new design — or at least a new update.

    Posted 21 April 2010 at 6:55 am | Permalink