This blog is now powered by Lectroid, a very nice blog engine found by chance on Github. In short:

• it is written in JavaScript for Node.js
• it does not need any database
• it is small enough (~800 JavaScript lines without my changes) that I've read and understood every single line of code
• it is easy to extend
• the posts can be written in Markdown (or HTML)
• it is damn fast

Lectroid does not have any administration interface. That might sound a bit old school but that's actually a strong asset (at least for a geek like me :)). I can completely write my post offline with my favorite text editor, and when I'm done, I commit and push on a private git repository. Then, a git post receive script mirrors the changes in the directory watched by Lectroid and it does the rest!

I also added some features and that was very easy thanks to some great node modules:

• a system to resize images with IMGR
• a custom CSS management system to merge and minify (with clean-css) the stylesheets in the production environment while still keeping the development easy
• the syntax highlighting of the code snippets with highlight.js

I'm quite happy with the result even if I still have to polish stuff here and there.