To the handful of you subscribed to the RSS feed here, I apologize for messing things up again. First, I changed blogging platforms, which modified some of the post titles. Then a couple of days ago, I thought I’d try running the entire blog out of an Amazon S3 bucket. This worked great, but required that I use a subdomain rather than the apex. The feed was pointing at jackbaty.com, which is now redirected to www.jackbaty.com, causing duplicate entries.

I’ll try not to do that again, but as soon as a static blogging platform comes along that works as well as Octopress, but with fewer dependencies, I will probably want to try it, so no promises.

Otherwise, using an S3 bucket for hosting a static site is pretty slick. No need to run or share a server, no Apache config, etc. Since I use Octopress everything is generated locally, so to “publish” changes I use s3cmd to sync things. There are a couple of pull requests waiting to be pulled into Octopress which will take care of that for me with the built-in “rake deploy” task, but for now I do it manually.