Miscellanea for 2025-09-17
- Hello world!
- I set up this lovely rapid-fire blogging machine, then I got really busy and stopped rapid-fire blogging (ugh!)
- Maybe I should take another swing at weeknotes?
- If every day is a loosey-goosey opportunity to blog, then no day is a particular day to blog.
- I lose touch with folks in the world when I get busy and go heads down for long periods. I'd still like to have some channel of communication open.
- I still think that "A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox" and I keep wanting to revive the habit.
- I've done a few interesting things lately:
- 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.