By John Gruber
Day One — The journal you actually keep. Start with a chat, end with a journal entry. ⭐ 4.8 (400k)
Typo is a weblogging system written in Ruby on Rails. Rather than provide a web-based admin interface, it relies upon XML-RPC clients such as MarsEdit for posting. (Via Brent Simmons.) Uses Textile instead of Markdown, though. [Update: Actually, Markdown formatting is available as a text-formatting option, it just isn’t mentioned in the feature list on the web site.]
★ Wednesday, 6 April 2005