#blogging/6 entries

I was recently fixing up the feeds on my website and wanted to make sure a) that they render probably and b) that the filtered ones contain the correct entries, so I built this little tool to preview atom or rss feeds.

I finally got around to getting my website back up and running. Years ago now I started the process of re-building my website (yet again), this time as a link blog. I finally finished getting the machinery working and old content ported over, then of course had to bikeshed the UI for a few days. Anyway one thing I wanted was different colours for the different types of entries. But eyeballing them was leading to poor choices that were hard to read, so I built this tool to make it easier to find colours that still meet contrast requirements for readability on the web.

One of my favourite blogs on the internet is Simon Willison's Weblog. I recently read this post of his about link blogging and love the idea. I occasionally post longer-form articles or essays on my blog, but usually only one or two per month, and I have a totally chaotic and unorganized web of ways to keep track of other interesting things I'm learning about or doing, but a lot of them are things I would love to share or connect with other people about.

I think his style of blogging is a great fit for the ways I use the internet and keep track of notes. I'm already working on refreshing my website (again), and I think this way of thinking about what to publish and how will really work for me. I'm still enjoying the experience of writing in Obsidian, and I find the built-in daily notes functionality makes it really easy to keep things organized. Now I just have to turn all the content into a website :) I'd like to also eventually migrate all of my various prior attempts at blogging, at least on technical topics, to this system so it's all in one place.