Levi's Lisp Log

Bugfixes

I fixed a couple of bugs in the comment system tonight. First, there was a problem where an incorrect answer to the spam question would erase the fields entered into the comment form, which was inconvenient to a would-be commenter who I am sure accidentally typed the wrong answer.

The cookie that keeps track of the fact that you answered the question was set to only be valid for the current archive directory, so it only worked for posts made in the current month. It is now valid for the entire blog.

I also fixed an issue with the display of commenters' names who decline to leave a URL. The names now display in plain text instead of as a link to the current page.

Blog Software Update

I've finally got the running server switched over to the new version of my Lisp blog software. It's been under development on and off for months now, but I finally feel it's featureful enough to let it live relatively safely on the net. It now supports comments, which is one reason I was delaying, so feel free to drop me a line and let me know what you think.

New Look

As you can see, I finallly got around to updating the style of the site to something like what I originally envisioned. There's still a lot of work to do on it, as I have features I want to bring over from my development code that still need to be styled. It's definitely big progress, though.

New RSS URL

The main (and currently only) RSS feed for the site is http://lifeoflevi.com/blog/rss.xml or http://lifeoflevi.com/blog/index.rss. They both point to exactly the same data, as I wasn't sure what the canonical RSS 2.0 URL is.

Changes Under the Hood

I've made a ton of changes to the internals of the blog engine. It now uses tbnl, html-template, and cl-who. It's much easier to extend now, as these packages are well-documented and allow me to abstract some things more easily.

I've also added a password-protected web form for adding new entries, so I no longer have to use the REPL to do it. It needs a bit of work yet, though, and I still need to get comments going.