About This Site

Morethanseven is the blog of Gareth Rushgrove, a web developer, programmer and occasional sysadmin living in Cambridge and working in London.

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This site is now tied together with pieces of string and the following bits of technology:

• Nanoc3 – lovely static site compiler in Ruby
• Nanoc3_blog – sample blog for nanoc, also provides the rather nice theme
• Coderay – for the pretty syntax highlighting
• HAML – because nanoc3_blog uses it and I’m at least willing to give it a go
• Textile – friendly text to html processing using the RedCloth Ruby gem
• Less – nice CSS preprocessing
• Tumblr – used as a content management system, mainly because of the API and mobile clients
• Ruby-Tumblr – for creating nanoc items from tumblr posts
• Nginx – small, fast web server
• Git – for versioning everything

I wanted a blog that was easy to manage for me, easy to serve, low on server resources and fast. Bonus points if I got to play with something interesting along the way. You can’t get much faster than static files and Nanoc seems a good balance of features and extensibility. Nanoc_blog provided a good starting point for much of what you see here. I’ve hacked on it to use things like coderay, less and textile by default. For adding new content I can use vim if I’m at my (or any) computer and if I’m out and about or feeling fancy I can use Tumblr or even GitHub.