So a few weeks ago my hosting expired and I was on the lookout for cheap (and ideally free) hosting. My initial plan was to go with Google App Engine and learn a bit of Python along the way. Then a friend suggested Heroku, another cloud based platform with similar sorts usage limits but this time the language of choice was Ruby – a language that I have a passing familiarity with thanks to using it a little at work recently.
The same friend then pointed me at Toto, a tiny file-driven blogging platform and I fell a little in love. This was exactly the kind of thing I’d been musing about for a long time, but was too lazy to build.
I’m not going to promise anything interesting shall appear here but setting up Heroku and Toto have removed what was a big barrier to me publishing things on the net. Now creating a blog post is as easy as writing something in markdown, commiting it to Git and pushing. No more dealing with FTPs and all that. Bliss.