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Posted December 22, 2008

As of this post, I am using publishing Wonderland with Webby .

Some of the things I like about Webby:

  • desktop based — updates are made on my laptop, giving me a wider choice of tools for writing this blog 12
  • static pages — the blog site is served from Apache as pure html files, there is no requirement to run a blogging server 3
  • extensible — Webby can be extended both with rake tasks and Ruby code4

1 Yes, this explains why I have not written a post recently.

2 This post was edited with MacVim.

3 I know, old school, some folks have been publishing this way for a long time.

4 Easy! A one-liner gist filter.

1 Webby::Filters.register :gist { |input| input.gsub(/gist(\d+)\./) { |s| "<script src='http://gist.github.com/#{$1}.js'></script>" } }

Thanks to Tom Preston-Werner for the CSS layout, Webby for the blog renderer, and GitHub Pages for the blog hosting.