building a blog as you write it is ridiculous
17 July 2013

Whose idea was this?

I keep seeing little (and big) additions to add as I sit down to compose a post.

Post (noun): what you bang your head on

For example, this one was going to be about search engines and what clients seem to think they want. Then I looked at the word post and that definition above and thought "it would be cool to tag a word and have a nice title balloon pop-out with the definition instead of actually typing it out inline". This, of course, is ridiculous. How often would I actually do this? Would it become a "thing"? (Ohh, Definition Balloon Enhancer here would be per--STOP IT).

Would I start adding words just to justify the tool? Would the text become stilted and weird because I want to be clever? Even worse, would people start rubbing their mice all over the screen to see if they were missing something?

Just because I see an opportunity for a momentary enhancement (*snicker*) doesn't mean it's useful for anyone else. I might be just adding it because I can and people would see this app as having Tons of Features (despite the fact that half that weight would be bloat).

Hey, I guess this post wound up being about search engines after all.