How not to do a live technology demo

• Use a tiny font that you chose for its ability to fit lots of data on your laptop screen
• Make sure your theme is a low-contrast theme with a lot of dark colors
• Prepare your demo on a high-resolution screen, and don't use the native resolution of the projector
• Switch quickly between various windows and input/output sources. The audience will understand what's going on, they don't need any visual cues about what you're changing from and to
• Make sure you use a cool-looking window theme. It won't distract from your demo, especially if your audience doesn't think it's as cool as you think it is
• When your demo doesn't go exactly to plan, make a predictable joke about how hard technology demos are
• Under no circumstances have a screen capture or other form of video to use in case there are difficulties with your live demo. Your audience will enjoy watching your troubleshooting skills

Well, pretty much all blogging software sucks

All I really wanted was a simple system. Something where I can easily -- that is, with little friction -- share things I find interesting as well as longer-form writing.  Something that allows me to focus on writing (for example, supports Markdown syntax). Something that doesn't require hours of time every month to patch and keep updated because it's been written to support all kinds of inherently risky technologies and is popular enough to be targeted by, well, everyone (Wordpress, I'm looking at you).

Of course, I wanted the basic things that make a blog a blog -- a syndication feed in Atom or RSS, a chronological archive, and a front page that shows the several most recent posts. Categories and tags aren't necessary for what I do, but if they're there, I will use them.

Oh, and if I need to switch off of the platform, then I want an easy export or access to the raw data of my posts, primarily in the format in which I wrote them (plain HTML or Markdown).

Every. Single. Platform. Seems to have either pushed to the "super-lightweight-static-site-generator" end of the spectrum, or "heres-a-rich-CMS-you-can-use-it-to-blog-I-guess" end. Blogger was, sadly, the closest thing. So here I am. Enjoy, I guess?