Wherein your patience is rewarded
Soft launch ahoy!
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March 23rd, 2004
Posts filed under 'Meta'
The long, slow slide
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!)
October 22nd, 2003
We’re gonna need a new Timmy!
That headline really doesn’t mean anything but I like that they’ve all started with W so far.
I decided to get crazy and add a new feature to this weblog, based on some talk that went through Brainstorms. You’ll note that there’s a new link in the Comments header of the individual archive pages (you won’t see that unless you click to see the actual HTML of an individual entry, for “all” you RSS readers). You can now subscribe to a given page’s comments as RSS, to see when something’s new!
This is even more farcical on this weblog, which has no comments so far. Go ahead, leave one; you’ll feel more special and so will I.
4 comments September 26th, 2003
What am I up to?
I’ve decided to create this blog as RSS only, just to be ornery. This is where I’ll keep tabs on the development process of Wicker, my new Wiki-ish thing. This is perhaps the most ambitious software project I’ve ever worked on, at a time in my life when I’m pretty sure I don’t want to be a coder anymore. It’s going to be interesting. Join us, won’t you?
Next post: what Wicker actually is. If you can guess from the name, you’re all smart and stuff.
August 27th, 2003