"... I also recently wrote my own blogging platform (in Python). It's really simple -- no web UI for me (yet, anyway), and the whole thing is contained in a few

"... I also recently wrote my own blogging platform (in Python). It's really simple -- no web UI for me (yet, anyway), and the whole thing is contained in a few hundred lines of code. ..." This is sort of a geeks rite of passage. Some I can think of - spolsky citydesk ~ http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/ http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/ - bray custom perl scripts ~ http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/misc/Colophon http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/misc/Colophon - dave winer ~ http://www.outliners.com/ http://www.outliners.com/ - trotts ~ http://www.sixapart.com/about/corner/2004/05/its_about_time.html http://www.sixapart.com/about/corner/2004/05/its_about_time.... - ev williams - http://www.blogger.com http://www.blogger.com - Fitzpatrick ~ http://brad.livejournal.com http://brad.livejournal.com "... I don't have comments, but I didn't want them anyway. People have written Wordpress plugins for virtually every need I might ever have, but plugins are a pain to deal with for problems that I can now solve in 3 lines of code. .." One thing I found was you really think carefully before you create something. I've shunned comments as well (constraints I've chosen) only choosing static pages. The advantages for such a low volume site are speed & reliability. Though I have thought having a feedback loop would be nice have yet to really come to grips how (having no RT server based processing). I'll let you know the url of the colophon when I release my site.