Andre Torrez

Dave Rutledge has an interesting journal going. He’s tracking each hobby and what he’s done recently. As someone with a lot of hobbies and projects these days I want to do something similar—though what I really want is everyone else to do something similar.

I’m going to take a stab at my own and figure out how to incorporate it here. I miss hearing what other people are doing and I guess maybe someone misses hearing what I’m doing.

Oh, and check out the /blogs feature. I’m now tracking who has recently updated. Again if you hold down ⌘ while clicking each blog it’ll grey it out and send it to the bottom.

The next thing I thought this site needed was a blogroll, but I didn’t want to just make a list of people and sites I liked. I wanted a light-weight reader I could use myself.

I asked Claude to read my 14-year-old exported Google Reader OPML, check which sites were still active, and then check if there was a recent date somewhere on the page. I then picked through that list to get this randomized list:

/blogs

One cool thing about this page is if I command-click to open a link, that link will drop to the bottom of the list and turn grey, giving me an idea of which ones I’ve visited for that session.

Did I mention that I originally wrote my own blogging software last year? That’s what powers my site now. It’s stupid simple and I was originally just using the Django admin to manage it but this morning I added a host of new features including image embedding.

Here’s our creek a few days ago in regular weather (mallard for scale):

And here it is today:

The cool part is I can drag and drop (or paste) into a regular text area and it produces the Markdown for me in the preview. Deleting the Markdown reference will delete the image from view and the server. Amazing.