New Blog Seems To Be Working
Posted 2017-06-25 10:56 PDT | Tags: blogging software
Welcome to my new blog, "Entropy Pump"! I finally gave up on Blosxom and wrote my own blogging software from scratch. It ended up taking less time than all the hours I sank into trying to make Blosxom not suck.
That having been said, it is not complete. The search feature doesn't work yet, there is still no way for visitors to leave comments, there's no way to link to a specific post, and pagination is broken. If I don't fix pagination before posting twenty posts, only the twenty newest posts will be displayed, with no way of accessing older posts. So I'd better fix pagination!
Also the side-panels to the right of the screen, over there --> are not very interesting. I'll come up with more interesting content and replace them.
I'm fairly pleased at how the html and css turned out. This page has a much spiffier look-and-feel than my old blogs hosted by LinuxQuestions and Slashdot, and it absolutely puts my main website to shame. It's not great (I kind of suck at css) but finally feel like I can provide people links to my blog without feeling embarrassed about it.
Thinking the top priority will be permalinks for posts .. the title of each post should be a permalink. Second priority will be pagination. Then I can think about full-text search (Lucy or dezi?). Also, maybe improving the markup a bit. It would be nice if "Lucy" and "dezi" were links to https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Lucy/lib/Lucy.pod and https://dezi.org/ respectively, but right now the blog only knows how to expand full URLs and Wikipedia references.
As introductions go, this one's pretty boring. Perhaps another entry is in order, ruminating on the significance of "Entropy Pump". Will do that soon.
UPDATE 2017-06-25 12:25 -- adding permalinks was really, really trivial.
Posted 2017-06-25 10:56 PDT | Tags: blogging software
Welcome to my new blog, "Entropy Pump"! I finally gave up on Blosxom and wrote my own blogging software from scratch. It ended up taking less time than all the hours I sank into trying to make Blosxom not suck.
That having been said, it is not complete. The search feature doesn't work yet, there is still no way for visitors to leave comments, there's no way to link to a specific post, and pagination is broken. If I don't fix pagination before posting twenty posts, only the twenty newest posts will be displayed, with no way of accessing older posts. So I'd better fix pagination!
Also the side-panels to the right of the screen, over there --> are not very interesting. I'll come up with more interesting content and replace them.
I'm fairly pleased at how the html and css turned out. This page has a much spiffier look-and-feel than my old blogs hosted by LinuxQuestions and Slashdot, and it absolutely puts my main website to shame. It's not great (I kind of suck at css) but finally feel like I can provide people links to my blog without feeling embarrassed about it.
Thinking the top priority will be permalinks for posts .. the title of each post should be a permalink. Second priority will be pagination. Then I can think about full-text search (Lucy or dezi?). Also, maybe improving the markup a bit. It would be nice if "Lucy" and "dezi" were links to https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Lucy/lib/Lucy.pod and https://dezi.org/ respectively, but right now the blog only knows how to expand full URLs and Wikipedia references.
As introductions go, this one's pretty boring. Perhaps another entry is in order, ruminating on the significance of "Entropy Pump". Will do that soon.
UPDATE 2017-06-25 12:25 -- adding permalinks was really, really trivial.