feedburner and failhouse

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I decided to give feedburner a try for my atom feed. I didn't want to change my site at all, so I just redirected the feed url with nginx (for all clients except FeedBurner).

if ($http_user_agent !~ ^FeedBurner) {
    rewrite ^/feed.atom$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/cactuswax;
}

This allows me to just show the feed to FeedBurner, and everyone else gets sent to the new location. Handy!

In other news, the site is no longer a Django app. Not for any failing of Django, which I still use quite often, but because I just wanted to try something different. The blog was using more memory than I wanted it to, and I was caching the crap out of it, so I just decided to write a static site generator.

So I did. I named it failhouse (see footer link for more info).

While I was mucking around in my VM on Slicehost, I finally had some time to convert it over to Arch Linux. About stinkin' time! Wewt! It sure is nice to be back in an 'Arch box' for the server.