I’ve been working the last several months with a talented web designer and developer on a new version of peterhajas.com. I’m really excited to deploy that today.
The new peterhajas.com is powered by Hyde, a static website system written in Python. The webserver (currently run by the cool guys over at prgmr) is just serving HTML, so there aren’t any database queries to create scaling issues. Static has always been well respected, and allows lots of big sites to meet demand. I’m excited for the opportunities a totally static system brings.
For example, source control. The full source content for this site, from CSS to images to Hyde template files, is accessible on GitHub. Feel free to take a look.
I recommend that you play with the really cool new Projects page.
I think this medium will let me write with less overhead. I’m excited to engage with all of you regarding the things I express here.
You’ll notice that there are no comments. The old blog had comments that were victim to spamming, and this was too much to keep up with. On every post you’ll instead see a link to tweet your thoughts to me. This allows us to continue the conversation more effectively.
I look forward to sharing my thoughts, projects and ideas.