lowfi

My previous personal website was Assimilate.us, which I was running a weblog engine called Blosxom on. It was cool for a while, it’s simple to design around and a cool idea for a basic weblog. As I used it, I found it holding me back more and more. There is no commenting system built in, it’s a plugin that you have to install which I couldn’t get working with a moderate amount of fooling around. I kept trudging along typing my posts using VI on the webserver, which admittedly made me feel more hardcore than the rest of these wussy ass bloggers that used fancy web-based text entry (most of them probably don’t even know what a terminal is). After some thought and coercing from my brother, who is also a technology eliteist I made the decision to move on. I knew that WordPress was the next step, it has a big community behind it, it’s open source etc. It also turns out that the guy who wrote Blosxom, Rael Dornfest recently moved his site to a different bloging engine called Typo. Now, I’m sure Blosxom will live on because there are undoubtedly a number of people still using it, but I can’t help but point out that it’s a sinking ship.