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I've disabled comments because I have some neat captcha-less ideas for how to tell bots to fuck the hell off from my comments section but I don't feel like implementing them for django. The new system (mostly homegrown glue w/ selector, beaker, mako & werkzeug thrown in) has been in heavy development the past few weeks and commenting should be available by the summer. Sorry Mike; now you've no reason to come here.

For a while the bots were just hitting a few old posts about 5-10 times a day, so I'd kill the spam every once in a while, but then I started to get pretty disgusting stuff on brand new posts so now it's gone. It's one of the classic models of digital social interaction at work, I suppose.

Otherwise, I've been hard at work developing the new site. As part of creating the new site, I wanted to develop very specific things and then generalize them out quickly to create a sort of reusable toolkit. That toolkit (which is standalone, basically) is davenport, and it's been getting a lot of love recently. Some couch-specific modeling stuff and hopefully a davenport CRUD generator will be in the future, as I flesh out the backend of the Hot New Shit. I also have to get my act together and send cmlenz some patches for python-couchdb. Busy Busy Busy.