philgyford's comments

Hi, that's my site. It's been running for twenty years, through two complete cycles of the diary, and we've just started the third.

You can read it on the site (or via its RSS), or get each diary entry via email https://buttondown.email/pepysdiary , or get excerpts throughout the day in "real time" on Twitter https://twitter.com/samuelpepys , or the same on Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys

Feel free to AMA

Ooh, I've probably got some more since then, because I hadn't finished working my way through the diary (for the second time) when I sent you that lot.

At the moment I've only added blogs that have been updated within the past year or so. But over time some blogs will obviously stop updating.

It's currently possible to filter each category to only show blogs that have been updated within the past week/month/year, which should help.

If it gets to the point where there are lots of blogs that are still live, but haven't been updated for a long time, maybe I'll make the default to only show blogs that have been updated within a year or so. We'll see.

I can see which blogs generate errors of different kinds when fetching their feeds, so I'll be able to spot blogs that disappear. If that happens they'll be removed/hidden from the site.

I will be adding various OPML files at some point.

Definitely - but it's very useful to start off with a suggestion!

As it says on the About page (https://ooh.directory/about/):

> Some blogs appear in two or, occasionally, three categories. If it would take more than that, it ends up in the wonderland of Uncategorizable.

Thanks. Strange, not sure why. Lots of people are managing to see it fine, but there's obviously something not quite right somewhere...

There's always "Personal blogs", which is a large number of them.

Hi, it's my site. I find the links by exploring*, and I add and categorise them manually.

* or "surfing the net", if you're old enough.

Looks OK from here. What are you seeing?

(It's my site.)

Just as "a bad workman (or workwoman) blames his (or her) tools", so "a good workman (or workwoman) praises his (or her) tools". Consequently I spend a good proportion of my time evaluating my tools, my tools being a text editor and a spanner (or wench).

It seems like every week there's a new text editor, and so I schedule regular time to evaluate the newcomer, and compare it against all existing text editors. Simple maths indicates that the amount of time required to compare a new text editor with the growing number of previous text editors expands exponentially. I estimate that by the end of next year I will be spending several months every week evaluating my tools (not including spanners (or wrenches)).

I paid $1399 for my TextDrive/Joyent "Three Martini Lunch" hosting, about six years ago. Which works out around $20/month. In retrospect, paying that amount up front doesn't seem "too good to be true", unfortunately.