New site section: snippets
For a while now I’ve wanted to add a section to the site for publishing short snippets of text (see ticket #1436). This is for things that are:
- too long for a tweet
- not "on-topic" enough for a blog post
- too transitory or ephemeral for a wiki article (eg. things of only transitory importance, like notes about something I’m working on)
So, we’re talking here about something like the "pasties" you can post at http://pastie.org/, or the "gists" of http://gist.github.com/, but hosted here so that I get the usual benefits of integration with the rest of the site (easy searchability, linkability, taggability, commentability etc).
I finally got around to adding this and I’m calling them, logically, "snippets". My first publication in snippet form is this list of changes included in the just-deployed update. Consistent with the other parts of the site, it’s got syntax highlighting, tags, commenting, and there are Atom feeds that you can subscribe to to keep up-to-date:
- https://wincent.dev/snippets.atom summarizes the latest snippets;
- and per-snippet feeds — like the one at https://wincent.dev/snippets/1.atom — allow you to track when new comments are added to any given snippet
So from here on I should be able to keep the blog much more focussed on "real news" and less cluttered with transitory notes and such.
As this is a new feature please let me know via the issue tracker or email to example@example.com if you spot any glitches.