About this site

This site has gone through many incarnations. The first version, which I think I deployed in 2008, was written with .NET, though I quickly changed to PHP. The PHP site lived on for a while until I started working at Mediaphormedia, the company that created the Django framework, and I knew I had to rewrite with Django. Then a couple years ago I rewrote the site from scratch using Flask and my own ORM peewee. The version you see now uses the following technologies:

• Flask, a lightweight Python web framework.
• Peewee, an expressive Python ORM.
• Sqlite, because it's a blog.
• Gevent WSGI server.
• Nginx HTTP server and cache.
• Redis, which powers the task queue and handles content caching.
• Huey task queue.

Current

Early 2016

Mid 2014

Early 2014 (red and black)

Late 2013

2013 readability

2012 minimalistic

2011 clean black copied from a WordPress theme

2010 blue copied from a WordPress theme

2009 black with rounded corners!

Before?

Unfortunately I could not find any screenshots of my site, and archive.org doesn't seem to have them either. Oh well, suffice to say it was very ugly.