{"id":103,"date":"2006-03-04T08:10:29","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T15:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/103\/announcing-dinky-links"},"modified":"2006-03-04T17:17:39","modified_gmt":"2006-03-05T00:17:39","slug":"announcing-dinky-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/103\/announcing-dinky-links","title":{"rendered":"Red Sweater Links"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those of you who have been reading for a while have probably noticed that I don’t spew dozens of short one-liner entries with a link to something cool and a quick typo-laden comment including my opinions about it. I hope you appreciate this. Sure, it would be quicker to get through than some of my lengthier articles, but I like to think of this as a place where you come to learn something or think about things in a new way, not simply as a bouncing pad to the rest of the universe.<\/p>\n

\nStill, I have the urge to share and comment. Who doesn’t? I’ve been planning for some time to implement a split-personality style solution, similar to Daring Fireball<\/a>‘s, where the short links live separately from the longer articles. If you’re the kind of person who just wants to read the lengthier, more thoughtful (if I’m having a good day) articles, then do nothing. You’re the one being protected here – nothing will change in the main blog. If however, you wish your NetNewsWire<\/a> subscription list was just a bit harder to navigate<\/a>, consider adding Red Sweater Links<\/a> to your bookmarks list, or subscribe to the RSS Feed<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe implementation of this feature includes some lessons for software developers. See – I’ve been putting this feature off for months for “no good reason.” Specifically, because implementing this properly requires features of WordPress<\/a> that don’t exist and skills or experience that I don’t have. Ideally, I’d like to have WordPress manage the list of links similarly to how it manages articles in a particular category, but as I said, I don’t want to “taint” the mainline blog. I spent a lot of time thinking about how I might do this. Implement my own custom link management software. Modify WordPress to allow exclusion of a category from aggregate view. Expand the “Links” functionality of WordPress to support more metadata. Look into the version of WordPress that supports multiple blog installations. Blah! It’s too much for my little head to take!\n<\/p>\n

\nRed Sweater Links is implemented the way many new features are implemented: as a nasty hack that works. I don’t have time to figure out how to do this right. So I made a copy of my blog and embedded the copy within itself. Sick, huh? Good enough for 1.0.<\/p>\n

\nNote: You’re not hallucinating. This feed previously described the new links feature as “Dinky Links.” I thought this was cute for about 5 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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