Movable Type 3.1 got released today with a plugin pack including the new version of MT-Blacklist, which means that I can now lower the Typekey bar without letting in a flood of comment spam. You can now comment with or without a Typekey account and with or without leaving your name and email, i.e., anonymously. Useless jerk comments will still be summarily deleted. Fellow code geeks will be interested to know that MT now has dynamic PHP publishing, e.g., you can have your indices be static and your archives dynamic, thus obviating the need for manual rebuilds. You can also schedule posts: useful if you feel like leaving some morsels in the fridge for your readers while you’re on vacation. The plugin pack also includes Markdown, a plain-text-to-XHTML converter, which I’ve been looking forward to trying, in the hope that it might relieve some of my hand strain. In summation: whoopee! I was sick of getting complaints about Typekey and looking forward to slimming down my site even further with the dynamic publishing and such.

a fellow Dan makes the pretty

I really like the look of Dan Vatsky’s front page. Each image in the mosaic rings like a bell.

and speaking of making the pretty

I’m going to be doing several refined patches at Share this Sunday. Come see.