Now I realize why I’ve always had a feed reader project in the back of my mind.

One, because it’s something I use every single day.

But a much more self-mutilating reason? It creates tangents.

The wonderful world of shiny toys and goodies, ranging from the daily must-read posts to the thoughtful, world shattering essay articles that gets published once a month.

The self-defeating cycle is that these goodies, no matter how awesome they are, keep preventing me from actually making headway on this project of mine.

Here’s a free example: Dwarf Fortress. How I visited this site, I don’t actually remember. I do remember hearing about it many times since I turned to indie games, but… it’s time to close this tab out.

Oh hey, it’s an article on Unmoved Mover on Wikipedia. Totally came to this page via listening to the awesome talk that Chris Hecker gave at Berkeley I was thinking about going to. Close that.

Oh hai, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. I should be reading you, too. Save it for later.

Oh good god, the post on Xsplit I’ve been trying to write for a couple days since switch over from the accursed Flash Media Live Encoder bullcrap.

Ah, now back to my Redis tab. I am at peace again.