<p>Daring Fireball is written and produced by John Gruber.</p>
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<ahref="http://fakehost/graphics/author/addison-bw.jpg"><imgsrc="http://fakehost/graphics/author/addison-bw-425.jpg"alt="Photograph of the author."/></a>
<br/><em>Portrait by <ahref="http://superbiate.com/inquiries/">George Del Barrio</a></em>
<p>The Daring Fireball website is hosted by <ahref="http://joyent.com/">Joyent</a>.</p>
<p>Articles and links are published through <ahref="http://movabletype.org/">Movable Type</a>. In addition to my own SmartyPants and Markdown plug-ins, Daring Fireball uses several excellent Movable Type plug-ins, including Brad Choate’s <ahref="http://bradchoate.com/weblog/2003/06/24/regular-expressions">MT-Regex</a> and <ahref="http://bradchoate.com/weblog/2004/10/20/mtifempty">MT-IfEmpty</a>, and <ahref="http://bumppo.net/projects/amputator/">Nat Irons’s Amputator</a>.</p>
<p>Stats are tracked using <ahref="http://haveamint.com/">Mint</a>. Additional web nerdery, including the membership system, is fueled by <ahref="http://perl.org/">Perl</a>, <ahref="http://www.php.net/">PHP</a>, and <ahref="http://www.mysql.com/">MySQL</a>.</p>
<h2>Web Standards</h2>
<p>Web standards are important, and Daring Fireball adheres to them. Specifically, Daring Fireball’s HTML markup should validate as either <ahref="http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/">HTML 5</a> or XHTML 4.01 Transitional, its layout is constructed using <ahref="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://daringfireball.net/css/fireball_screen.css">valid CSS</a>, and its syndicated feed is <ahref="http://feedvalidator.org/check?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdaringfireball.net%2Findex.xml">valid Atom</a>.</p>
<p>If Daring Fireball looks goofy in your browser, you’re likely using a shitty browser that doesn’t support web standards. Internet Explorer, I’m looking in your direction. If you complain about this, I will laugh at you, because I do not care. If, however, you are using a modern, standards-compliant browser and have trouble viewing or reading Daring Fireball, please do let me know.</p>