I decided I should have a blog to discuss or publish things I find interesting or otherwise on the Internet. Now the thing is that I also like having things fast, meaning that I think it’s nice if things are static. So enter Webby, easy to use, configurable and easily extendable, through Ruby, and add the fact that webby generates static HTML, it can hardly get any better! :)

That is except for the community building part of having a blog, comments and the ability to tell other people automatically that I’ve written about a post of theirs or the reverse — someone else wanting to tell me that they’ve written about one of my posts. So the first part of that puzzle I found was Disqus which is a javascript commenting system that can be used with any javascript enabled browser. So now I have comments, but Disqus also do trackbacks. But Trackbacks are very spam prone and because of that the community came up with Pingbacks instead. Pingback activated sites does some verification on the incoming links and if all of it checks out it then records it. So what I decided to do was to transform incoming pingbacks, through a proxy, to Disqus trackbacks. I think it’s a nice and simple solution. :)