February 8, 2009 at 9:55PM Quick notes: Changes afoot
There are a few changes that’ll be happening around these parts mighty soon. Let’s start with some site news:
- I’m killing comments on the site. Frankly, I hardly ever get any non-spam comments, so the facility’s really little more than a waste of time and energy. I may reenable them some time in the future when I’ve a better method for handling them, but until then, they’ll be kaput. [Update (Feb 12th): done - it’s no longer possible to post new comments, and all spam has been cleared.]
- I bought a server! I still have to get two harddrives and a set of rails for it, and install an OS, but I have it, and when I’ve the new software ready to power the site, I’ll be moving it onto that.
- I’m rewriting the code that powers this site from scratch. I’ve hit some paralysis caused by my new design, which I’m not at all happy with, so I might just shelve it and go with something a bit less ambitious and concentrate on the site’s code instead, like I should be.
Other bits and pieces:
- I’m abandoning awesome as my window manager. As of v3, it’s started to diverge far too much from what I liked about dwm, so I’ll likely be going back to using that instead. I don’t really feel like forking and maintaining v2. Well-named as it was, it just isn’t for me any more. Pity. For now, I’m back to using OpenBox and ROX-Session, which feels a little weird after using a tiling window manager for so long! [Note to Revence: no, I won’t be using Xmonad - it takes too long to build it, GHC, and all the other stuff it depends on. dwm is just fine.]
Update (Feb 21st): I missed a few bits of the comments code for dealing with spam, which is why some may have seen an error page on the weblog’s frontpage. My bad. It’s fixed now, and I stripped out yet more junk.
1 On February 10, 2009 at 15:24, Revence wrote:
The comments are going? :-( Give Xmonad a go. I loved it when I used it. When I want more orthodxy, Xfce4. I’ll be building me my first bog soon, too. :-)