This is

as days pass by, by Stuart Langridge

. Here I write about many things. In the past I wrote about other things but the past is past. I write code for people to play with, I write about my life on Twitter, and I write here.

On I wrote More random stuff, on the subject of Updates.

Ah, my earlier random links post went through all the tabs I had open in Firefox, but didn’t go through all the “keep new” stuff in Bloglines. (These should be unified. Fuck knows how, though.) Anyway, more linkdump:

  • A Javascript port of MarkDown (via Michael Moncur). I’m thinking about going to MarkDown rather than Textile for writing my posts, which you don’t care about, and I’m also thinking of going to MarkDown for comments rather than Textile too, which you might.
  • The blogosphere as a tuple space. Interesting.
  • A new BitTorrent search engine, TowerSeek (via Gary Fleming). Good if you like that kind of thing (especially since loads of others shut down). I’ve had mixed results with it so far, but it’s pretty good.
  • Ade talks about XML resumes and whether they’re a good idea. This sort of thing is always good, but no-one ever takes them on. Recruitment people normally won’t even look at a CV unless it’s in MS Word format. Them picking out metadata automatically would make people’s lives a lot easier, but it falls into the category of “Semantic Web pipedreams” as far as I can tell.
Phil Wilson

Is there any special reason for the move to MarkDown from Textile?

sil

Phil: markdown’s just, like, nicer. I keep running into problems with the Texile parser when I, say, want to do a blockquote; a carriage return ends the blockquote. It’s a pain. Similarly, a link, like so: ‘text here’:http://example.com/, doesn’t work right if there’s a comma directly after the link URL; the comma ends up being part of it. Just little stuff…

Paul Freeman

Did I tell you about TowerSeek? I have no recollection of this, and I can’t find it in me links archive.

sil

Paul: you’re right, it wasn’t you. Updated to credit GaryF. Sorry about that :)

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