This blog continues to be served by Python, but by a different species – Yaki . Yaki is a Blog and a Wiki rolled into one.
As I have documented here, I find doing blog posts from text-editor1 quite liberating. I spend a lot of working hours inside a text editor editing code, so writing posts feels more natural opposed to blogging from within a browser window. I can understand why many people went gaga about Darkroom . Focus is a good thing to have.
Yaki also removes the stress of figuring out where to put a blob of text. Should I write a blog post about the server configuration I did, or should I create a stand alone page because I might add something to it later? With Yaki, everything is just text so that I can just write what is there to be written, content with the fact that I can always just edit the file and the online version will be updated automatically. I see this approach of edit-it-and-forget-it approach enabling me to write longer, hopefully useful documents over time compared to yyyy/mm/dd trailing blog posts.
1Using TextWrangler because TextMate does not have native support for editing remote files.
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