Update: This was referring to the previous incarnation of this blog. It doesn’t apply any more.

A quick overview of the pieces pulled together to make this blog.

• Nesta CMS forms the base of the blog. It works great out of the box but is also very easy to extend and modify.
• The layout CSS was created with the Compass CSS framework. The Susy plugin is the best grid system i’ve come across
• HAML instead of HTML
• SCSS instead of CSS
• CoffeeScript instead of Javascript
• The icons are SVG paths rendered using the Raphael JavaScript library. The icons are all provided by Dmitry Baranovskiy.
• The map is from the Google Static Maps API which allows you to apply custom styles to the maps
• The site is hosted on Heroku