What Just Happened?
I know that lately it seems as if I spend more time tinkering with this blog than actually blogging. While it's a valid criticism, I think I finally have things to the point where I can develop on here instead of bugfixing. And for my readers, this weekend marks a turn towards actual coding responsibility on my part: I've set up a fully-functioning development site on MT, so that before I make any changes I can test them out. This is something I should have done two years ago when I started the blog, but then again, when I started this Moveable Type was a much simpler piece of software.
This probably won't be the last time I tinker with things before I shut down the blog, but at least everything I do from here on in should be development instead of bugfixing. For instance, I may mess around with making my comment individual entry archives generate dynamically. (For me, this wouldn't be a big plus, but for a higher-traffic website like Crescat Sententia, it might make a big difference, as the rebuild time on that site remains pretty severe, or at least it does whenever I ping it.) Likewise, MT's new stylesheet format presents a lot of intriguing options. Because TYoH's layout is now completely determined by layers, it might be possible for me to revise my stylesheets such that some styles are two-column and some three.
But in the short run, I've done enough programming for now. It makes a good break from work or writing, but I think it's time to get back to blogging about other matters.
