brian hefele's untidy spaceEdit - I accidentally postdated this, and as a result, the info didn't get out at the right time, and chronologically this makes no sense. I'm fixing it which means it'll show up in RSS again. Sorry!
I still have a major article brewing here, about a tragically disenfranchised people and the movie Wolf Man. But fortunately the specific film reference is unimportant at best, meaning I don't need to keep things current and topical. This is good because I have been working on two major projects right now. The first is a big, exciting design gig which will be posted to my portfolio upon completion (the end is near!). The second is a new brainaxle blog, which is live right now - the collapsible and the modular.
The collapsible and the modular is also running on kukkaisvoima. I love the system. It's light, it's simple, and it lets me use whatever I want (vim) to write posts. It is, however, a bit of a blank slate, with no template system, no extensions, etc. I did a little work already to customize this install of kukkaisvoima - adding an 'about' link to the sidebar, adding twitter to the sidebar, and adding post breaks. I have done some further customization to the code for the collapsible and the modular, which will be reflected here rather soon.
I'm very happy with the changes. First, commenting will be moved to Disqus. This isn't ideal, I suppose, because Disqus seems to be down as often as it is up. But I'm one to live on the edge and hope they improve their reliability. I think even with Disqus in its current state, it would be an improvement to the current, relatively anti-social commenting system in place. So I'm quite happy with that.
The next big thing involves how kukkaisvoima parses files. A stock install of kukkaisvoima uses the file format 'shortname:YYYY-MM-DD:tag,tag,tag.txt.' I long ago changed this to 'shortname;YYYY-MM-DD;tag,tag,tag,tag.entry' - the colons were a pain to work with, and the .txt meant that I would have to explicitly tell my text editor that we were essentially working with XHTML. Now I have made one more important change - I have moved the tags inside the article, and in the meantime added authorship support.
A stock install of kukkaisvoima requires the first line of a post to be the title of the post. From there on out, XHTML formatting takes over. I have updated this - if the second line starts with a hyphen, that line is used for the byline. If the next line starts with a hash (be it the second line w/ no author, or the third line with), that line is a comma-separated list of tags. This means that URLs are prettier, and it means that tags can be changed without causing the post to show up as a new post in an RSS feed. I believe that I have kept it backward compatible, and am therefore able to migrate it over without updating my posts.
So, in the coming weeks, look for the comment system here to get replaced with Disqus comments, look for URLs of new posts to be less unsightly, and look for my name under every post (won't that be fun? I might ignore authorship on this blog…). In the spirit of open source (whatever that means), I should and likely will release my changes here. But, also in the spirit of open source, it'll be ugly and probably a bit buggy.