I decided to participate in December Adventure this year.
This is the first time I'd heard of December Adventure, and I like the idea a lot more than the Advent of Code — it just meshes better with how my brain works.
So, today, I started by setting up a system to make it as easy as possible to document my progress.
I decided to create a static microblog website, inspired by Debian Micronews.
The way it works is:
templates/ has a collection of templates,posts/ has a collection of posts,build.py combines to create this site and an Atom feed.
Posts are freeform HTML, with no need for using <br> or <p> or anything like that.
You can see the original source for this post and then view the source of this page to prove it!
Basically, CSS is magic. Specifically white-space: break-spaces;.
I then made a bookmarklet which gets the current date and time, then opens GitHub's "new file" page with the filename filled out already.
My problem with blogging is if I have to switch to a different repo, pull out a text editor, etc... it starts feeling like an Endeavour™.
And if it becomes an Endeavour™, I start putting a lot of effort into it — which promptly backfires, because I don't have the motivation to drive it to completion.
Because I want to work on the thing, not write about the thing.
So I made it as ADHD-friendly as I could, in hopes of mitigating this.
I BANGED OUT THIS POST IN 10 MINUTES.
I just went to Firefox, opened a bookmark, and started typing. WAY lower friction.