You might have noticed that the site has seen a few minor changes. This reflects a large-scale refactoring of the entire blog application (in order to fix a queryset caching issue), and the simplification and consolidation of a lot of crufty templates. You can see my progress via the hg repo.
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: you're looking at it
I'm not quite what you'd call prolific, but I've been failing spectacularly for long enough to have a decent working knowledge of what doesn't work.
After a few days of actually getting things done, I relapsed into staring lazily into the depths of the internet and finding entertainment in what most people would probably consider the most mundane of places. This time, it was one of the rare interesting reddit articles in which a guy mails typographers asking them for handwriting samples.
I mentioned before that I had splintered off my blog developing efforts into a project I named saudade. The first somewhat releasable ball of code is now finished and in operation at jmoiron.net. This is a (thusfar modest) blog engine utilizing Django and focusing on levereging existing technologies, best practices, and a slim codebase. Some features saudade has over my previous software: