Evolution of my link roundups
As you may have noticed, I'm a fan of link compilation digests.
However, compiling them was quite the work for me. I always found interesting links during the week, then had to reserve an hour in the weekend to prepare the blogpost, which sometimes I did not had.
Furthermore, this format was flooding my blog with link roundups, which is not very user friendly for somebody who stumbles upon my front page.
I needed something better in two ways. First, the link publication has to be on the spot. Adding them to a list, then editing a post was not cutting it. Second, the links need to be their own section, independent from the rest of blog posts.
Fortunately, one of my link sources had the solution in front of me. The idea behind it is very simple and I got inspired by waxy's implementation. A box with links in the front page, and a special page only with links.
So this weekend project has been a very nice 1-line patch to bashblog, a bit of messing with postfix to parse links received to a special inbox, and some glue on top of it. I'm happy with the result!
The links index page is very crude right now. There is no CSS, and no feed available, but that will come soon. Meanwhile, feel free to bookmark it and visit it sometime!