About CodeMusings

CodeMusings is not a blog. It's closer to the old UNIX .plan file: a short note about what you're working on right now. No editorial pressure, no comment sections demanding you defend your choices. Just write what you're doing and move on.

The .plan file was a simple thing: a text file in your home directory that anyone on the network could read by running finger username@host. It told people what you were up to. CodeMusings does the same, with Markdown support and a web interface, because not everyone still has a finger client lying around.

Actually, some people do. Which is why we also support the finger protocol directly:

finger username@codemusings.nl

If you prefer plain text, every user has a .txt endpoint that returns their current plan and profile info, no browser required:

curl https://codemusings.nl/@username.txt

There are also RSS feeds, if you still use a feed reader (you should):

https://codemusings.nl/@username/rss

Posts here tend to be project updates, small launches, things that are in progress but not finished. That's the point. You don't need to wait until something is done to write about it. Half the interesting stuff happens before it's done.

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