Sporkblog - Blogging simplified
2022-06-04 UPDATE: Sporkblog is effectively dead. I would be interested in pursuing a more modern version of Sporkblog, cleaning up the core components. It can occupy the solution space between static site generators and Wordpress. Please contact me if you are interested in collaborating on this goal.
Sporkblog started as my first foray into web development. I began work on it in 2008, and quickly learned that the trick to software development is building something in a way that allows you to understand it when you come back to it. Months after finishing Sporkblog's first version, I came back to it and discovered that I had failed. It was a mess, and I needed to clean it up.
I began Sporkblog's next iteration, and with it I held onto some principles that I believed were most important. I decided that the blog should:
- Be easy to navigate, without superfluous information;
- Have easy-to-read source, so hacking can be done somewhat easily;
- Have well-designed HTML so themes can be made with little effort;
- Allow visitors to comment without a distorted image CAPTCHA or registering an account
I also put Sporkblog under Git revision and started learning better project management habits.
In July 2012, Sporkblog's second version was released. It included all of the functionality I considered necessary in a blog, and good enough to run my personal website on. There are still some improvements left that I believe need to be made, but it's ready to be hacked on.