Making a micro blog

Some of my thoughts are tiny. Small, fleeting specks of ideas.

They should have a suitable home. Perhaps even tap into the world of micro.blog.

So here's the plan:

micro / macro

I've renamed the blog a few times already. At some time I called the blog Articles, Text, or just txt. A one point, they didn't even have a subfolder. Everything was on root.

It's not great, from a web point of view, to be constantly changing. But I guess I should just embrace this side of me.

The idea of separating content based on length appeals to me. So I thought: Since the micro blog could live in Micro, why not put the blog on Macro. And that's my conclusion.

For the next 30 days at least.

Database

Originally I wanted this site to store all content in text files so I could sync them with Dropbox or anything else. I have text files that are almost 30 years old. Somewhere. I think.

They last forever if you can find them.

But micro blog posts are short. I could easily have hundreds of them. So it quickly become thousands of files. And though making a new page for a blog post isn't much of a hassle, making one for each blog post seems disproportional. I just want a text field.

I've already started to play around with Python and Sqlite. I don't think this will be that hard. The basics are already coming along nicely.

Yes, some say that you shouldn't use Sqlite for web sites. But I say tossers! This site has 1 author and fewer readers. I think it'll manage.

RSS and XML-PRC ping

From what I gather, this will be very easy to implement in Python. There's a library for creating RSS feeds and another for making XML-RPC calls.

All in all, if I get enough spare time, I could have this done by a few months! (Yes, it's very hard to cook up that spare time!)

16.06.2018