Any developer will at some point get fed up with their blogging platform and start dreaming about writing their own. I got to this stage today when the tumblr text editor started crapping on my posts. It reformatted my nice html examples and started doing crazy shit. Also there is not a buildt in commenting feature in Tumblr which also causes some friction. The last thing that pissed me off is the fact that I cannot upload pictures.
What I need from a blogging platform is not much:
- RSS feeds
- Plain text editor. I know HTML and wan’t to write my posts using it. And I don’t want the editor to change my HTML.
- Comments.
- Uploading files.
- Changing the theme.
- Authentication for editors.
It’s very tempting to fire up Visual Studio and start making a sexy simple MVC blogging app for myself. But I just know It will consume way too much of my time. I’m in deep pain. Please comfort me.
