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May 25, 2020 |
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I haven't written for a while, although I've wanted to. I got a little |
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blocked up by this little project I started in on and actually managed to |
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finish. It started with useful intentions, then almost went off the rails, |
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and then got back on the rails, I believe. This is the trajectory of |
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pretty much all my projects. |
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The project is this phlog. I found all the cut and paste linking of new |
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entries pretty annoying, so like a good little programmer I set out to |
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automate it. My first stab at it was a bit too much, and it all had to do |
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with my day job as a web programmer. I decided to make my gopher hole a |
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dynamically generated page from data in a flat file database, all through |
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a cgi python script on request. |
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It turns out python is too slow, and my enjoyment of the perversity of |
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making a fully db driven gopherhole quickly turned into embarrassment in |
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unnecessarily replicating the complexities and drawbacks of the web here |
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in the sacred gopher space. |
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So instead, I wrote a script to take a directory of text phlog entries, |
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marked-up in a really simple format and create gophermaps from them and |
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auto index the entries in the main phlog gophermap. So now all I have to |
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do is write a txt file, and run the script, and then you can read. Whoever |
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you are. |
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At the moment it save me some time linking and formatting. Maybe I'll do |
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something fun and add colors or update my root gopherhole with the latest |
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entry. |
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