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G’day!
Most of my spare time this month has gone into Pinto. No building, or at least not yet. Instead a lot of journaling, thinking, and writing.
Last month ended with the idea of Pinto as a system for curating my own subgraph of the web. I wanted to spend some unpacking that a little more and the way that seemed most natural was analogizing Pinto as a cottage garden in A Garden Analogy of Pinto.
I wasn’t planning on using an analogy, but this one seemed to fit. It captured the sense of conviviality I want to bring back to the web, even if only in a small way.
With this (slightly) clearer direction, I started working on the command line prototype for this new version of Pinto. I’m calling it Kar, short for “karabiner” (or “carabiner” if you prefer).
For most of my non-trivial projects I like to have a design that I’m working off. Not in some overly rigid, waterfall-methodology kind of way. Rather, in a way that where I can figure out many of the problems and the overall design up front which will help me enjoy the act of coding. So, I wrote the design doc for Kar.
Writing a doc like this for some projects absolutely would be a waste of time but in this case I felt it was important to plan ahead on some of the tricky aspects. Things I will need to implement like URL normalization and identifying duplicate documents.
Now that the design is written I’m excited to start building Kar. That’s my plan for May. To see if I can get Kar completely built and in a usable state by the end of next month.
For now though, that’s all I’ve got. See you next month!