So this weekend I decided to put my money where my mouth is and try out a different HTTP server for my personal site. (Admittedly, my site doesn't come anywhere close to needing the scaling abilities of any decent HTTP server.) I'm trying out lighttpd for now, next on my list are thttpd and Boa. (That reminds me, how could I have forgotten to mention Boa and Jigsaw in those comments on Jeremy's blog?) Anyway, my dislike for Apache has grown over the years, so we'll see if all this talk about alternatives holds any merit.

Much of the content on my site was outdated, so I took this opportunity to start anew. I even made a new homepage design (experimental). The style is pretty much the opposite of what you see here, tiny-and-desaturated versus the big-and-bold design of my blog (I like both).

I've been working on a pretty complex web application for the past few weeks. Writing production-quality code takes a while. Whenever I start a new project, I can make a working prototype in a couple nights (and did so with this one as well), but a few weeks after starting from scratch I'm still not up to the feature set of the prototype. Not that it's a problem. The version I'm working on is extremely polished and flexible. I plan to release it before the end of June.

And no, it's not what you think — that goes for you, too, Ben. That's next in the queue.