I recently added some scripts to automatically generate tag feeds for my blog when pushing new content. I’m using GitHub Pages to publish everything, so it seemed easiest to make tag generation part of a pre-push hook (new in Git 1.8.2). This hook is run automatically as part of the git push operation, so it’s the perfect place to insert generated content that must be kept in sync with posts on the blog.

I’ve enabled blog comments using Disqus. This is something of an experiment, since (a) I’m not really happy with how Disqus is handling user registration these days and (b) I don’t know that I have the time to moderate anything. But we’ll see.

This blog has been hosted on scriptogram for the past year or so. Unfortunately, while I like the publish-via-Dropbox mechanism, there have been enough problems recently that I’ve finally switched over to using GitHub Pages for hosting. I’ve been thinking about doing this for a while, but the things that finally pushed me to make the change were:

• Sync problems that would prevent new posts from appearing (and that at least once caused posts to disappear).
• Lack of any response to bug reports by the site maintainers.

A benefit of the publish-via-Dropbox mechanism is, of course, that I already had all the data and didn’t need to go through any sort of export process.