Mostly shelved my work on Pebbling Club, since I realized I'm kind of reinventing a lot of wheels better made by others.
I switched over to using Linkding as a web link collector—this is one of those aforementioned pre-invented wheels.
Built & released feedspool-go, which takes OPML lists and produces a static site of RSS items. This has become my new feed reader.
Built & released linkding-to-opml, which allows me to use Linkding bookmarks as my OPML list of feed subscriptions for feedspool.
I did a lot of the above via throwing specifications at Claude and refining them into code and GitHub Actions workflows.
Really quite productive for side-projects.
And work projects, too, but those aren't as open-to-the-public these days.
Next, I'm thinking about what further small composable glue tools I can gin up to essentially build what I wanted with Pebbling Club.
Maybe something to turn a day or week of Linkding bookmarks into markdown as the starting point for a blog post?
Maybe something to turn a day or week of Mastodon toots into markdown, also as the starting point for a blog post?
Also eyeing up all the notes and highlights I accumulate from my Kindle - those could make a good blog post too, since I've been ripping through books as I pedal away on the exercise bike every morning.
Way in the back of my mind, I still have an impulse to see if I can stitch all the above together into some kind of "pebbling" (i.e. collecting and sharing) club for folks.
But, I want to get it all to work happily for myself, first.
Maybe there's no particular demand for this thing?
I have a vague notion that there is a space for something that helps folks authentically stitch together a human-scale small web?
I have scarce energy and motivation for building this, though.
