Burning my Feeds
There’s plenty of reasons why I like Feedburner, but I recently noticed a new feature that makes me ponder blog development in general.
If you take a look at the Unix philosophy of applications doing one thing well, then blogs these days are trying too hard. Typo has gone from a bare-minimum blogging app to completely out of hand in my opinion. Sure there’s plenty of eye candy, but when I can’t wrap my head around the code anymore, because of the amount they’ve added in the last few months, that sucks.
The interesting thing is even with all of this new bloat, it doesn’t do basic blog things like emailing the owner that someone has commented or providing next and previous article links when you’re reading an article.
Wordpress is even worse, having recently added the kitchen sink, but it does seem to work quite well, so I can’t knock it too much.
The Feedburner feature I noticed today was the ability to ping services to let them know you’ve written something. Instead of increasing bloat, just hand the XML to Feedburner and let them handle the rest.
I don’t know what the hell I’m saying, I kinda want to write a blogging app that’s like 100 lines of code and never touch it again.