Well that was (kind of) easy. I was interested in Octopress for a while, but didn’t have time to mess with it till now. It took a couple of hours to setup. Mostly since I had to download GCC for Mac which was about 200MB.

Xcode 4.x something which doesn’t have GCC anymore.

I didn’t have RVM on this computer so I tried rbenv instead after @dhh mentioned it a few months ago.

There was nothing particularly wrong with WordPress. It just got boring. Too complex to hack around. Too many plugins. Too many updates and comment spam.

This is a cycle people start with simple things make them complex and go back to basics.