Blog migration
Wordpress was annoyingly slow for me, especially within the admin area, so naturally I went looking for an alternative. I don’t want all that extra cruft anyway - give me something lean I can hack on without having to read a whole manual (and preferably something not… PHP.)
Upon seeing Scanty, I was pysched. It’s based off Sinatra, which I was already playing with at the time, and uses Sequel, a slick little ORM. Mashable micro frameworks/APIs are definitely “the new hotness”. Anyway, the entire package is minuscule and just what I was looking for.
But while I was setting it up…
A CHALLENGER APPEARS
Github Pages launched and Jekyll was brought to my attention. It’s a blog-aware static site generator, which uses Liquid for templates. I tried it out for a bit, but it’s apparent the project is still very young and is missing some basic blog features. I contemplated looking around the source and possibly adding some (like Basil did) but then, for kicks, went about wget-ing my localaly hosted Scanty blog instead!
wget -rmnp http://localhost:3456
I had to tweak some paths in Scanty to end in a “/”, but it actually works pretty well. At this point, you might as well just use caching, though. Plus you don’t have the easily modifiable, versioned blog posts.
As it is, I’m sticking with my customized version of Scanty (and peeking over at Shinmu.)
