I’ve updated my personal website to be a minimal, single serving site.

The site has moved from Jekyll to Nesta CMS. The content is all still very much static, but I love the ability to add Ruby/Rack power when I need to. The easiest way to host a simple Nesta/Sinatra/Rack application is Heroku, which is awesome. But I am, apparently, a glutton for punishment. I took the opportunity to move to Linode (from Media Temple) in order to learn about sysadmin stuff, which is hard. The site is served by Nginx proxying to Unicorn: it’s overkill to serve a one-page site.

One of my favorite things about my new home on the web is the stuff you don’t see: the HTML underneath. Using the rel="me" attribute to link to my other profiles, I provide web crawlers some semantic hinting for identity consolidation. This Tumblr blog links back to my profile with a rel="author" attribute. With the inclusion of my Google Profile on my home page, I’m explicitly telling Google that I, Mark Wunsch the author of this blog, am the same Mark Wunsch represented by @markwunsch on Twitter, et al. Semantic markup can be really powerful.