Tumblr?
Blogging is hard.
It’s very easy to just not write anything. Good blog software should provide as little friction as possible.
I’ve always held back writing on my blog because I’m always thinking about tweaking the site design, the code, the server, the framework, etc. Content, even after I tried to just set it and forget, has fallen by the wayside for quite a while now.
Tumblr is really striving to be that blog software that just gets out of the way.
- You want to write a post on the site? Sure.
- You want to email a post with an attached image? No problem!
- You want to tie into twitter? Absolutely.
- You want to change themes with a click? Of course.
- Want to cohesively share different kinds of content? Out of the box.
I’ve gone through blog reorganizations before. I’ve switched from straight HTML to wordpress to generated HTML to perl to Rails. Nothing has ever really felt simple, easy, and polished. Tumblr does.
I feel really good about this setup. Let’s see if I stick with it.
UPDATE: there’s even a ruby wrapper and command line tool for interacting with the tumblr api. Awesome.
