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How is it that people can be so geeky and so geek-illiterate at the same time? Who the hell writes HTML any more? Don't we have, like, 100 simple markup languages that make it 10x easier and better? Really. I've been writing a software product (deserving of much hate, I am sure) recently, and have had little luck finding people with whom to discuss the trials and trevails of this process. So, I decided to begin recording the conversations I have with myself, at the least so that I have them to look back over, and maybe even to draw some more interest onto the software. Unfortunately, blog software seems to largely suck. (I know, I hear you gasping with surprise -- who knew?) First, it seems to be a pretty simple setup -- I write something, it gets put online. Ok, there are some other features -- comments (can get quite complicated), categories, pinging (don't ask), and tags. Ok, I understand. But what's the most important thing, the one thing you figure they'd get right? That's right, text editing. I write a lot of code snippets in my entries (because, you know, I'm writing code and developing a language) and I can't seem to get code snippets to show up well at all. Really. They look like crap, in addition to looking nothing like what I want. There's lots of hate here, and my options appear to be 1) don't blog, 2) do the writing but do it in a vacuum with no connectedness to the rest of the blog world, 3) use shitty software, 4) host something myself and hack it till it works. All of these suck. I understand the blog software is written for people who want to post pictures, not code snippets, and want to write using WYSIWYG not Vim, but please, this isn't that hard. -- Levy's Law: The truth is always more interesting that your preconception of what it might be. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://config-mgmt.blogspot.com
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