Deploying, as I do, on a freenet with limited resources--and permissions--it has been a struggle to find adequate blogging software. For awhile I used FlatPress, which was a PHP-only bit of blogging software that I downloaded and installed onto the server; no database or other awkwardness required.

Unfortunately, some time ago they turned off PHP, so I cast about for something more. I landed on TiddlyWiki, which is kind of cool but not well suited for a blog.

After a rather lengthy layoff (I got a new job), I've finally gotten around to restarting my infrequent writing habit. This go-round I'm playing with Crotal. I'm hopeful that it's going to actually, you know, work. It's a static site generator that uses markdown pages and posts. So I'm back to writing blogs in vi...a little bit like fifteen years ago, when I was probably editing my web page in pico or some other editor.

Deployment happens locally on my computer, but it's easy enough to dump the files using sshfs or scp to the server. It's going to take some time to figure out how to customize it to my liking, but so far it seems like the defaults are all right.