Kobayashi is named for the majordomo of the infamous Keyser Söze in The Usual Suspects and Star Trek’s no-win mission scenario (since blog software gets zero geek cred if you build it. Don’t ask me why.).
Nothing in Rubyland (at that time0 did what I considered essential. So, I took the best ideas I’d seen, shmooshed them together, and created something super fast, hackable, easy-to-use, and with a tiny code base (<250 LOC!). I had a blast coding this and learned a surprising amount for what seems like such a simple project, especially as I layered on more complex functionality and features.