This morning, I had a moment of insanity.<\/p>\n
Or rather, I had a random thought and then my brain simply would not<\/i> let it go. Even now, it’s not entirely willing to disengage from the idea, even though I know it’s a stupid idea.<\/p>\n
It has to do with my website redesign, which I plan to begin testing in the next two weeks.<\/p>\n
The PHP code is written. I have to upload it to my test server and make some CSS fixes.<\/p>\n
Morning brainwave: “Why don’t I rewrite the theme files for Habari<\/a>?”<\/p>\n Habari is a different blogging platform, created by some disaffected WordPress coders. Superficially, it’s similar, but under the hood it’s vastly different.<\/p>\n Now, at one time I did have an Habari test blog, and I did port a WordPress theme over to Habari and it worked. And there were some things about Habari that I liked; for one thing, it was leaner and meaner. (WordPress has, quite frankly, gotten a little big and a lot bloated.)<\/p>\n But this theme isn’t just a blog theme. It’s a magazine-styled theme.<\/p>\n I looked at the Habari wiki<\/a>, and it looks like there’s a lot I could make work, but there’s some important features that I couldn’t. Post thumbnails, for one thing! And I’m unclear on how multiple loops work. Or child pages. For that matter, does Habari even do<\/i> pages?<\/p>\n That said, I can’t say that I wouldn’t enjoy the challenge of making something complex work with a complicated system that’s largely beyond my current understanding. It fits my tinkerer’s mentality.<\/p>\n It’s a crazy idea, and I know I’m better off with what I currently have in the pipeline. I tell myself this. And yet, this crazy Habari idea has lodged itself in my head and it won’t leave.<\/p>\n I know what it is. My brain likes crazy, stupid challenges. It’s a way to put off work. Or, in this case, putting off testing the code. It’s an excuse for a working kind of procrastination.<\/p>\n The insanity moment will pass soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This morning, I had a moment of insanity. Or rather, I had a random thought and then my brain simply would not let it go. Even now, it’s not entirely willing to disengage from the idea, even though I know it’s a stupid idea. It has to do with my website redesign, which I planContinue reading “On Mad Thoughts of Blogging and Coding”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4095],"tags":[4096],"class_list":["post-6159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-wordpress","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}