Hurray, I’ve added disqus comments to jacobrothstein.com. I must say it feels really weird to use a prefab solution like this, but it’s silly to hold off on writing a comment system until I feel like it. I had been planning on importing the Stormweight Blog comment system, but then I realized that the whole point of that comment system was to take advantage of the fact that people already had user accounts (and that there were other reasons for users to sign up for yet another account). I guess I could get around this with an openid sign in, but I figure I’ll play with that for selfstream. Anyway, here’s a comment system that works today and supports a whole lot of stuff.

Leave a message and let me know how it works!

On the right, below the twitter stream, there’s now my five most recently shared items from my Google Reader stream. Building this was really easy with nokogiri.

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Hi everyone!

jacobrothstein.com has a new look! I finally pulled out the code for this blog and updated it to Rails 2.3.2, converted all of the templates to HAML, and rewrote the SASS from scratch. I know it’s a little, um, gray, but I want to add color and contrast slowly and carefully. I’m also hoping to start adding photographs, so the neutral colors will facilitate lightboxing.

Unfortunately, I haven’t added comments yet, so this is just unidirectional as of now. I plan to extract the comment and attachment system in place at stormweight (see stormweight.com/posts) so this starts being more like a real blog.

This website will be the home for my many projects and products, a clearinghouse for information about me, and a soapbox from which I can formally present ideas.