Typecho 0.9

Honestly, I was a dumbass in middle school. I kept messing around with CMSs and forum software, and because I was too shit at coding, I could read parts of the code and hack it to fit what I wanted, but I couldn’t write a feature from scratch. The “can modify, can’t build” tier.

I’ve half-assedly run a bunch of blogs too. Every time the hosting died, the blog died with it. This one might be the longest-running blog I’ve kept, over 2 years now — and I figure I should thank Linode’s stability for that.

When I decided to start a blog, I wanted something simple that would let me focus on writing instead of drowning in extensions. At first I found Sa-Blog, thanks to a recommendation from Hanxing at MyDrivers. It was nice to use, but then the author said he wasn’t planning to keep developing it. I thought about it and just didn’t have the guts to run something unmaintained. Then I saw a bunch of people hyping Typecho, set up a test environment, and found it was my kind of thing, so I stuck with it…

Who knew that was just another big hole.

And then Typecho never got another update. I did complain about it on X (Twitter), but got an immediate reply from a dev: “Honey, Typecho isn’t dead.” I checked svn and git and sure enough there were still commits, but after that, nothing.

So Typecho died again. Wait, why do I say “again”…

Anyway, I did see the new version arrive. I’m not asking for crazy features, just that it keeps its current minimal style. I just want to write something when I feel like it, not need a fan spinning up to full speed just to log into the admin panel.

The upgrade went great. Smooth, perfectly compatible with the old template, so as you can see, my site looks basically unchanged on the surface. Also the admin panel supports Markdown now — another point for that.

Hope Typecho keeps getting better. I’ve been reading books lately to pick my programming ability back up after throwing it away, and if I get the chance later, I’ll go contribute some code…