The long, slow slide
October 22nd, 2003
I’m halfway through integrating users - that is, the ability to log in and the restriction of certain features to certain users or classes of users. Really, I’m halfway through the logging-in part, and the rest will add yet more complexity (of course). And I am watching myself make my software worse.
Little compromises. Sure, I could work out how to let people put quote marks in page titles without breaking stuff, but it’s so much damned trouble. Now there might be issues with ampersands too. Maybe this will all get worked out over time, and I’m worrying for nothing (what, me?). Or maybe Alan Cooper was right, and writing the code for your own spec is a hopeless conflict of interest. Unless you’re that rare programmer of surpassing dedication and professionalism.
Which I’m not. Mediocrity ahoy!
(Note: The recent-comments RSS feed is indeed a much better way to handle things than the one-feed-per-post approach I was trying. I had to install a plugin to get it to work, but by virtue of the fact that you’re reading this, it’s clear that I’ve got nothing else to bloody well do with my life. The feeds for each post will continue to exist, but as you can see, I’m not linking to them anymore. Ha!)
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