title: Red Wind README author_name: Kyle Mahan author_url: http://kylewm.com

Red Wind is a (micro)-blogging engine used on my personal website, kylewm.com. I have been using it to screw around with IndieWeb ideas like POSSE (Twitter and Facebook), microformats, webmentions (sending and receiving).

The name comes from the great Raymond Chandler short story, the first paragraph of which is one my favorite things ever:

There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Ana's that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.

Python 3.3, Flask, uWSGI, Redis. See requirements.txt for details.