Second Crack
Ever since I first heard about Marco Arment’s Second Crack, I knew it was exactly what I have wanted for a very long time. It is a simple, straightforward, lightweight, static file-based, Markdown-powered blogging engine. For months if not years, I have wondered why nothing like this existed. All I wanted was something that allowed me to write up a blog post using nothing but Markdown in a plain text file, drop that file into a folder, and have a blog post up on my site.
This is exactly what Marco delivered, except better (thanks to some really slick Dropbox integration). He’s been using it on his own site forever, but just yesterday he very generously released the source code for it. I jumped at the opportunity.
It’s taken many hours of configuration, head-scratching, and light bulbs going off, but my new Second Crack-powered site is live. I absolutely adore it. Thanks so much, Marco, for delivering the blogging engine I’ve always wanted.