From 9f55ed554fd448c2acf83f8f91f418e48e290e94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcin Chrzanowski Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2021 16:23:56 +0200 Subject: Publish Sunday Corner blog post --- src/blog/sunday-corner.html.erb | 75 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 75 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/blog/sunday-corner.html.erb (limited to 'src') diff --git a/src/blog/sunday-corner.html.erb b/src/blog/sunday-corner.html.erb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8946c5a --- /dev/null +++ b/src/blog/sunday-corner.html.erb @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +title: Introducing Martin's Sunday Corner +date: July 25, 2021 15:55 +--- +

+I spent Friday night implementing a new part of my website: +'>Martin's Sunday Corner. 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. +

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+You can try to access the page on other days but there's no use, you'll just be +told to return next Sunday. +

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+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. +

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+The Corner is going to be an outlet for + +

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+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. +

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Anti Social Media

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+This experiment is anti social media. Not in the sense that it's anti social +— 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 +'> + "social" + media. +

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+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. +

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Technical

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+The Corner is implemented as a CGI script written in Ruby. You can find the +source code '>here. Feel free to copy my code or +implement a similar idea for your own personal website! +

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