I’ve ported Scanty to Redis. If you don’t know, Scanty is the code for this blog, and Redis is a high-speed persistent key/value store with very useful extra features (like atomic list operations). Think Memcached but persistent, or Tokyo Tyrant but with more features and minus the ability to store databases larger than memory.

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Rolling your own blogging software is the way to go for hackers, so I’ve ported this blog from SimpleLog to my own custom creation. 4 hours of work and 200 lines of Ruby code = a blog that does everything I need and no more. I call it Scanty.

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