I’ve finally got around to getting my blog up and running. I’m using Mephisto, a fantastic Ruby on Rails based blogging engine.
So why Mephisto? Dan Webb pretty much nails it:
For me, the single most important requirement of any CMS system I use is that it’s easily hackable. I don’t like the idea of being locked into a certain featureset or way of doing things, especially for my own site, as I really want to be able to evolve the site and try out new ideas. All of the blogging systems around now do have quite substantial plugin architectures some of which are really quite nice but at the end of the day if you plan on writing a lot of custom code for a site you’ve got to pick a blog tool based on a platform you like.
Under the covers, I’m running nginx, a lightweight, high performance http server, mongrel, and postgresql, along with monit for system monitoring.
