My new blog backend is, for all intents and purposes, an Atom-aware cp -r. Posts are represented as Atom Entry Documents on the filesystem, which I parse with the Universal Feed Parser and then turn into HTML with Cheetah. Comments are AEDs on disk, placed into directories corresponding to each post. There’s a new comments feed, which contains the 10 most recent comments.

The new comment form handler is a simple Python script which turns the submitted comment into an AED and writes it to disk. It runs comments through Akismet (with akismet.py) first, and only saves out the non-spam ones. This script is the only bit of the site that isn’t static.

Please email me if anything breaks while you’re trying to leave a comment!