september 1, 2008
So, while the kids are sleeping, I have had some time recently to work on my hobby project: mindof. mindof is the software that I use to run my microblog.
I moved everything over to Google Code so that I can have everything in a repository for version tracking -- plus it is nice to have a place host the wiki, downloads and bug tracking (hey, if Google offers up free bandwidth and hosting...)
I also added features that I thought would be useful:
- Character counting code.
- Flickr and YouTube parsing and embedding code.
- Neat little pretty icons.
- An icon for iPhones and iPod touches.
- A favicon.
- Rounded corners (this is my favorite).
While I would love for mindof to be this huge success with lots and lots of people using it (like say Wordpress). The cold hard reality of the whole thing is:
- I am way not a webdev by any means.
- mindof won't be installed to a huge user-base because it is a tool that is written and customized for myself.
- Anyone could write what I wrote.
- Even if it became wildly popular, I would have no time to truly maintain it like it should be. ('course this last one is false because if it because wildly popular, there would be others working on it as the code is all Open Source).
I will keep on poking and modifying the code in order to learn. But, mindof is its own little niche software product with at least one user: Me.
At least it has a cool logo (which is a riff on the ultramookie logo designed by JR).
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