• Considering a trip to SuperHappyDevHouse 25 tomorrow.

  • I should probably try working on writing there.

  • But I might also work on this bucket and a few other things.

  • And I really should try to mingle a bit and make a few last connections with people before we move.

    • I'm hoping I can finagle a way to return to CA on a schedule that coincides with future SHDH happenings, but who knows?

• Today was a day of Mozilla work from home, followed by an evening of book work from home.

  • I feel like I've read every line of mootools-trunk-1553.js.

    • I've probably missed a bunch of things.

    • On the other hand, I think I found a few bugs too - I wonder if and how I should file those with that community.

      • Oh, hey, they use Trac.

• Firefox 3.0 RC1 dropped today!

  • I'm amazed at how much smoother and quicker all the animation examples for the book seem to go!

• Real Synthetic Audio is one of my favorite music podcasts evar.

  • IPM Radio is pretty dang nifty as well.

• Attached a patch to a bug today, and watched it get announced in an IRC channel. Like, in public. This'll take some getting used to.

• As seen on Twitter, I biked to work today. It was only about 11 miles from Santa Clara to Mountain View, but that was enough for me.

  • But, it wasn't too much for me. I've only got about a month left out here in CA, but I wonder if I might just keep this up.

  • Oh yeah, and I wore this snazzy Firefox cycling jersey. I felt at once silly and like a superhero.

• Once upon a time, about 5 or 6 years ago if I recall, I quit smoking cold turkey. Having done that, I feel like I can do damn near anything sometimes.

  • The trick is remembering that feeling.

  • And the other trick—as I find it currently difficult to rise from the couch with muscles overused through 22 miles of bike riding today—is not to overdo it.

• Seems like Twitter is down again. Makes me happy I have a bucket.

• I need to collect bucket thoughts in order to compose a long-form blog post explaining and introducing the thing. Maybe it'll happen under this bullet.

  • Or, maybe not.

• Thinking about writing a proper long-form blog entry about our having bought a house in Michigan.

  • Kind of the reverse of my post, Go West, Young Man!, from almost 2 years ago.

• Thank you, Akismet:

  • "Akismet has protected your site from 419,402 spam comments already"

• I'm hoping to make this the Summer of Skein.

  • Not to be confused with the Summer of George.

• Someday, I'm going to explain what this bucket is about. Prerequisite to that is figuring out what it's about. A few quick notions, though:

  • For me, at least, perceptible interface + laziness threshold = weblog silence

  • Dave Winer's OPML Editor has been the only tool in recent memory to keep me publishing thoughts for any respectable stretch.

  • My favorite word processor, once upon a time, was WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS.

    • I always did love "Reveal Codes"

    • No me gusta mucho el WYSIWYG.

• I keep thinking I want a Psion PDA. They seem to have nice workable keyboards. I miss my 8086 palmtop with Microsoft Works and a sunlight-viewable greyscale screen.

  • This ties into my persistent Golden Age vision of writing at a picnic table in the sun, which I haven't done since college. That palmtop was my enabler then.

• Something else I want to do things with:

  • Google App Engine

• Comments were working in Firefox. Just checked in Safari and found things broken there. Can't be bothered to try MSIE yet.

• To emphasize the notional units here, I've tried especially styling first-level bullets. I can't remember if MSIE is happy with this particular CSS selector yet. If not, tough.

• Tagging per bullet or line in this thing would be interesting at some point, too.

  • I'd like to be able to search for and possibly re-aggregate bullets by tag.

• I added the bucket to my accumulator, which should be interesting to watch when the "final" version of each day's bucket shows up in the feed.

• At some point, I want to return to that accumulator and implement the custom feed filtering stuff I meant to do. That way, I can offer feeds that gather:

  • a firehose of everything I emit online;
  • just the stuff I emit to decafbad.com;
  • just the long-form articles and posts.

• Time soon to check this bucket stuff into SVN, since it's grown to about a half-dozen scripts and templates. There's some content accumulated, too.

• Tossed in some Haloscan comment links next to the titles. I'm also thinking about switching to Disqus if I can find a clean way to integrate.

  • This might offer a clue toward the Disqus integration I want.

• Hmm. I wonder how hard it would be to tell blosxom to mind the creation date and not modification date on these entries?

  • I remember playing with plugins and other touch-based hackery to sort this kind of thing out, years ago.

• Have a passing thought that I might convert everything from my OPML blog into entries for this bucket. They're very, very similar in spirit.

• Nothing much dumped here today - I spent pretty much the whole day finishing the third-to-last chapter of the book.

• So, I'd thought that the upload script was working, but it was failing on the SSH auth part of the rsync. Seems to be working again now.

• Since I end up using a lot of the same links repeatedly, some sort of link palette or persistent link notepad would be nice.

• Still thinking a feed-to-markdown thing would work nicely for copying over links to things I've bookmarked, made favorite, or whatever.

• More things to remember to play with:

  • Google Gears
  • Dojo Offline
  • Get back to XoxoOutliner someday

• Oh hey, my laptop's on PDT time and my server's on UTC time. That'll affect Blosxom date headers a bit, ugh.

• Okay, so I slapped together a quick CSS theme and an rsync-based uploader running every 10 minutes. It's live, after a fashion.

• I've also hacked the feed not to include the most recent entry that I'm editing right now. That's important, and hopefully I'll explain soon.

• There's not much to this thing yet besides Blosxom and a handful of shell scripts that:

  1. Rotate my always-open editor to a new blank file at midnight.
  2. Upload everything to my server every 10 minutes.
  3. Can open the editor from Quicksilver if I happened to have closed it.

  Keeping it stupidly simple for now. Maybe I'll keep using it.

• Thinking of borrowing my Haloscan comments integration from my OPML blog and trying it here too.

• Also thinking of trying Disqus, but not sure it lends itself well to this thing.

Metabucket

• Maybe midnight-process the single day's bucket into multiple entries, cut on <hr> and entitled with first <h1>
• Use some ASCII-text convention for embedding link anchors.
• Possibly attach delicious-style tags to anchors for future lookup and search.