So much has happened since I last posted, aieee. I have no idea how to tell you about Florida, Ottawa, preparations beginning for my shodan test... So for now I'll stay mum on all of the above, except to say: they all went/are going fine, my family and friends are delicious and wonderful, and I love them all. Hopefully more sooner or later.
Meanwhile! The topic at hand: I saw vee a few months ago and it wasn't quite usable; now that it's looking more so, I was seriously tempted to just chuck this crazy nb/Mason/SQLite monstrosity and start again from scratch. Cooler heads prevailed, however, when I considered the unreasonably daunting task of reimplementing all the custom stuff that I actually like about this blog. Which left the important question: why was I so eager to get off this platform?
See, I think part of my blog silence over the last little while has been due to an unwillingness to sit through the full nb generation process. Yeah, that's probably silly of me, but it's at least been part of the situation (insane busy-ness, travel, sleep deprivation and friends have all played their parts, too, of course). So vee presented the possibility of something that would be dead simple to set up, and when I started playing around with it, it was so smooth and quick to render that I had to seriously consider: what, exactly, about my current process might be holding me back from writing?
Very happily, I took one last look at the nb site before bidding it adieu, and lo and behold, there were a few tips about exactly the sort of previewing I've wished I could do for a long time now. Also: enough new shininess to convince me to upgrade to the latest source. That's right folks, we're on the bleeding edge here (3.4 "rc1"—although really it's just svn head as of this morning). I'm thrilled to say that I'm satisfied with the performance improvements and improved workflow I can get out of this version. So: no big, painful migration is in store right now. Not only that, I managed to fix a long-standing deficiency in my own custom-hacked comments module: you can now actually see how many comments an entry has from the front page! Huzzah. People had complained about that one.
Other stuff coming Real Soon Now:
Enjoy!
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