markjgsmith

I’ll never stop blogging: it’s an itch I have to scratch – and I don’t care if it’s an outdated format - Music journalist Simon Reynolds on why he'll always keep on blogging. My brain thinks blog-like too mate. What a phenominal Tricky reference. Saying blogging is outdated though is a bit like saying jquery or a Sunday roast is outdated. Some very vocal people say it a lot, meanwhile 80% of websites still love their Sunday roasts. theguardian.com #

Great unknowns: nine top scientists on the one mystery on Earth they’d like to solve - I love reading all these various questions from the scientists, it creates new and interesting perspectives in your head, new ways of looking and seing the world. Honestly I'm also completely transfixed by the first image in the article of planet Earth, just floating there in the deepest of space, doing it's thing, with all the oceans and enormous weather system of clouds and that blue glow around the edge. It's so unbelievably beautiful, isn't it? That's where we live, every single one of us. Take a look and think about it for a few seconds. theguardian.com #

Good enough for now - I wrote a few days ago about the possibility of creating an RSS render pipeline. I've had some time to review the codebase and though long term it definitely looks like the way to go, it's more non-trivial than I initially thought. It will require a re-write of the core rendering engine. As it turns out I've already written the v1 of this re-write. I did it a few months back, but got blocked by one thing or several, and wasn't able to get it fully working.

I'm going to keep the current RSS components for now. I've made some modifications that should enable full text feeds, and should be enough to get things working for the interleaved everything re-design. Longer term though, I hope I'll get a chance to get the re-write operational. It would open up many new possibilities for code reuse and packaging.

Sometimes you have to take some steps backwards. But you got to keep moving forwards. Things don't always go smoothly or in a straight line. That's how the world is a lot of the time. #