The Boston Diaries

The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”

Go figure.

Thursday, January 19, 2023

The good news? Somebody wants to use my blogging engine. The bad news? Somebody wants to use my blogging engine

Over the 23 year history of mod_blog, I've given up on the notion of anyone other than me using it. There was only one other person who used it for just a few months before deciding blogging wasn't for him and that was way back in 2002. So it was completely by surprise that I recently received a bug report on it.

Oh my … someone else is trying to use it.

I never did fully document it. And there are, as I'm finding, an amazing number of things I'm assuming about the environment, such as:

And that's just off the top of my head. There's probably more assumptions made that I'm just not thinking of. It's issues like these where one can spend 90% of the time writing 90% of the code, and then spend another 90% of the time writing the final 10% of the code and documentation.

I'm also amused by the timing. Back in August, I removed a ton of optional code that I never used, and because no one else was using mod_blog, it was just sitting there untested. And now someone wants to use the code.

Heh.

But also, gulp! I've got 23 years of experience with the code, so I know all the ins and outs of using it. Documenting this? So someone else can use this? Good lord!

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