December 31, 2002 – 1:34 am
Following in Russell Beattie’s outliner brain dump footsteps, I revised my PersonalWebProxy page with cut-and-paste from my own outline in the works. It’s far, far from complete, especially in the planning department, but I figure it could be worth poking at just to check out the developing direction.
Having trouble getting to Russell Beattie’s blog [...]
December 30, 2002 – 5:28 pm
Continuing along with the PersonalWebProxy meme, Russell Beattie writes:I have a lot of trouble with motivation on something like this. I get excited then I flip out because of how much something like this could entail and I find other stuff to do for a while to calm down. This has been going on for [...]
December 29, 2002 – 1:04 am
On the cite tag, Mark Pilgrim writes further: “All right, everybody just calm the fuck down. It’s only a tag. I didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition.” Don’t I feel like a fan boy? :) Heh heh.
And, oh! that INS tag! Must be something in the post-holiday egg nog.
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December 28, 2002 – 8:24 pm
Russell Beattie writes: The idea in my mind is for a project that would be a universal personal proxy (UPP) that sits between you and the internet. It would be a web proxy, email filter, spam cop, a place for agents and schedule tasks to run and more. It would be responsible for both receiving [...]
December 27, 2002 – 3:35 pm
Although I did begin my days on the web by pouring over the HTML and HTTP specs back in 1994, I soon abandoned that effort and learned how to make web pages by example like most webmonkeys and hacks came to learn it. I wasn’t ready, back then, to read a document like [...]
December 27, 2002 – 2:38 am
It’s not incredibly complicated, but it’s something I just hadn’t gotten to until now: My AmphetaDesk subscriptions are now the source for my blogroll. I noticed the opml2html script that Jeremy Zawodny wrote, snagged it, and set up a quick cronjob to run the script and upload the HTML every few hours. It’s [...]
December 26, 2002 – 2:01 pm
Chris Winters threw me a link to my recent ramble on completely planned perfection versus workable organic imperfection in software design. After citing a very good perspective on software as gardening from The Pragmatic Programmer, he writes:As I’ve mentioned before there are a number of software development practices moving toward a more humane process. [...]
December 23, 2002 – 2:40 pm
Matt Griffith proposes a virtual project: Jog. For the most part, what he wants is what I want from my PersonalWebProxy, and more.
The big difference in the writing, though, is that Matt writes from features and what he wants, where I’m already describing things in terms of implementation. That is, I started talking [...]
