Another year, another blog redo…
For the last year, Mike The Coder has been hosted on Chyrp, a nice and nimble little self-hosted blogging platform that dips into the tumblelog side of things (different post types, auto-posting of other websites stuff, etc.). Then, much to my dismay, Alex announced that he was done maintaining Chyrp (I’d link to the blog post but the site seems to be down). That alone doesn’t warrant a switch, since things were working fine as they were, but it made the antsy side of me kick in.
So now I’m on Tumblr, just because it’s the closest thing to Chyrp and I’m ready to try something hosted for once. The benefits of Tumblr over something like Chyrp are many:
- Can email or IM in posts
- Can call in audio posts using a phone
- Easy Disqus integration
- Lots of readily available themes
- All the other stuff that comes with using a popular platform
So holler if you spot any problems. I manually ported over all the posts worth porting (skipped the twitter statuses and pointless pics, etc.).
