After over a year of living with my custom built blog system I'd finally had enough last weekend. Time for something new. Something less buggy. Something extensible. So I took a day and rewrote it from scratch.

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I am tired of smartphones. It's true. They are done. Baked. And boring. It's not that I don't like mine. It's just that I don't see anything interesting in them anymore. I'm happy to use one, but as a career target for innovation I feel they are done. Before you jump all over me about how I could possibly feel this way when I work for a smartphone company please allow me to explain.

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I finally got tired of hacking Wordpress and decided it was time for a change. My site has always essentially been static. I don't need a database or the ability to switch themes and use plugins. I'm the only author and the content doesn't change more than once a day (usually once a week). So, I scrapped WordPress entirely and wrote my own blog in Node. It only took me about a day of real hacking to get it up and running.

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