Posted by matijs
18/08/2004 at 22h50
Simon Cozens, author of the very software this blog runs on, mentions finishing projects
in passing:
Maybe I need to stop coming up with interesting new project ideas, and
finish some of the ones I've started.
Nah. Where's the fun in that?
How true. And how annoying that old projects stop being fun before they
are truly finished. Somehow, they either linger in a mildly usable state
(usable enough for me to use them, not for others), or in a half-finished
and unused state, bit-rotting away. This is why I consider so few of my
projects fit for publication on my website.
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Posted by matijs
16/08/2004 at 23h06
Last month, I decided August would be the month of finishing projects.
After August, I would get back to worrying about the future, but until
then, I would be tying up the loose ends of the past. This is working, in a
way, as I'm actually finishing a big part of my blog-project. On the other
hand, lots of my old, rusting, projects won't get finished, and the blog
seems entirely too recent to be spending most of my time on.
Luckily, it seems the blog software is now finally working
completely.
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Posted by matijs
31/07/2004 at 15h12
After trying out Straw, I am now quite satisfied with Liferea. It does what it needs to do in a
straightforward manner. However, I think there is still room for some
revolutionary thought on feed reader interfaces. What I'm looking for here
are new ways of managing the quickly expanding number of posts that have to
be dealt with on a daily basis.
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Posted by matijs
24/07/2004 at 22h01
Although I've been posting some thoughts on my home page already, it was
not yet what anyone would call a blog. Mostly, I was annoyed that I had to
hand-edit the HTML. Of course, there was also no possibility to post
comments, there were no permalinks, etc. This had to change.
I took a look at blosxom, but quickly
decided that it wouldn't satisfy my needs. In particular, it used the
modification date of its input files as the date of the blog entries. This
is a nice idea in itself, but I want to be able to edit — update
— my posts without worrying that they'll change dates.
Luckily, I found Simon Cozen's article on
Bryar, and today I finally got it working. This is not to say it was
that hard, just that I have been procrastinating. Of course, not everything
went swimmingly, but that's for another day.
So here it is, my very own blog.
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Posted by matijs
31/05/2004 at 18h00
I fixed up MSGConvert some
more. All outstanding bug reports were taken care of.
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Posted by matijs
28/05/2004 at 18h00
After reading about RSS
and Atom (mostly on dive into
mark), I decided to try out Straw, a news aggregator
for GNOME. It works, but keeps
spinning up my disk. Thus, it is unusable on a laptop.
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Posted by matijs
20/05/2004 at 18h00
I spent last week in Switzerland, where my mother lives, and this gave
me time in between enjoying the beautiful outdoors to fix
two bugs in MSGConvert. My earlier rewrite already paid off in making
the less trivial one much easier to fix.
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Posted by matijs
16/03/2004 at 18h00
The weekend before last, I did a complete rewrite of MSGConvert. The code is now much cleaner, and
should be more maintainable. Rejoice!
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Posted by matijs
14/03/2004 at 18h00
I find this
hilarious!
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