Instead of writing a pastebin for semantic data like I had planned (still a good idea I’ll get to eventually), I’ve started working on a blog engine initially written by Ryan Tomayko called Wink. If you visit his blog, you can see the only live instance of Wink. He recently open sourced it with a little cajoling from the rest of the guys in #sinatra.

To get a feel for what it can do, check out Ryan’s post “Administrative Debris”. You can get a very good feel for what Wink is all about: simplicity, consistency, and ease.

Currently it’s not quite in a usable state. If you grab the 0.1 tag off of github, it should run for you, maybe with some tweaking or fighting with it. If you want to give it a shot, please do so, and report back on freenode.org either in #sinatra or #wink on how it went.

Beyond that, we’re going to solidify some of the wibbly-wobbly parts, add a few features, and document how to install and deploy.

I see Wink as being the shining example of what a great sinatra application can be, and I’m glad I got in on the ground floor of it’s open source life.

To grab the source code, or just follow development head over to github at Ryan’s Wink repository, or mine.