Those paying attention may have noticed that this site has changed. Up until recently, freshfoo.com was generated using a combination of PyBlosxom and rest2web but it's now using the wonderful Nikola static site generator. The change was prompted by a desire to have more flexibility about freshfoo.com's hosting situation - moving a static site around is far easier than a dynamically generated one. A static site also provides a snappier experience for the end user and there really wasn't a need for the site to be dynamically generated anyway.
Nikola also provides some nice tooling for the site author to help with the writing process. The nikola auto command which serves up the site locally, automatically rebuilding as you work on it and automatically refreshing browser tabs which are viewing the site is especially useful.
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