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+title: Introducing Martin's Sunday Corner
+date: July 25, 2021 15:55
+---
+<p>
+I spent Friday night implementing a new part of my website:
+<a href='<%= path_to 'sunday' %>'>Martin's Sunday Corner</a>. It's going to be
+a list of thoughts from the past week available once a week on Sundays. Think of
+it like a once-a-week ephemeral microblog. A Twitter without any of the features
+of Twitter. Or any of its limitations.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+You can try to access the page on other days but there's no use, you'll just be
+told to return next Sunday.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+For now I'm going to treat this as an experiment. I'm not sure how long I'll
+keep it running, but I'm hoping it's going to be light enough for me to not need
+to care about it much. I won't mind if it remains empty some weeks, but if it
+stays empty for weeks in a row, I'll probably shut it down and consider the
+experiment as failed.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The Corner is going to be an outlet for
+
+<ul>
+  <li> random thoughts </li>
+  <li> musings </li>
+  <li> small updates </li>
+  <li> tiny poems or jokes; why not? </li>
+  <li>
+    maybe small rants? I don't usually complain much, but maybe that's just
+    because I've never had a good place to do so at.
+  </li>
+</ul>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I hope the ephemerality of this project will help me be more off-the-cuff and
+share thoughts that I normally wouldn't in full blog posts. And, assuming this
+actually leads to me thinking and sharing more thoughts, maybe it will
+additionally lead to more interesting ideas that can evolve into full articles.
+</p>
+
+<h3>Anti Social Media</h3>
+<p>
+This experiment is anti social media. Not in the sense that it's anti social
+&mdash; quite the opposite, since as always you are welcome to email me if you
+have any comments about anything I've written, and that includes anything you
+happen to see in the Corner. It's anti social media in the sense of being
+opposed to
+<a href='<%= path_to 'blog_its-not-social-media-its-marketing-medial' %>'>
+  "social"
+</a> media.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Social media tries to keep you hooked in as long as possible every day. It wants
+to bombard you with all sorts of random content, then learn which of it sticks.
+The Corner is available only one day a week. Once you've seen a Sunday's
+contents, there's no reason to stay on the page, to refresh, to wait for a
+notification (none will come). You'll have to wait until next Sunday for fresh
+thoughts from a new week. The thoughts will all come from me. They might be
+boring, they won't be targeted, you might not relate to most of them. I might
+even write some of them in Polish so who knows if you'll be able to read them.
+</p>
+
+<h3>Technical</h3>
+<p>
+The Corner is implemented as a CGI script written in Ruby. You can find the
+source code <a href='<%= git 'sunday' %>'>here</a>. Feel free to copy my code or
+implement a similar idea for your own personal website!
+</p>