(Yeah I know — the title of this post is embarrassing!)

Yesterday I posted a kind of status report, so I guess now is a good time to follow up with a sketchy roadmap for the next few weeks (or maybe, months).

Features I want to add next to blog.rb are (in no particular order):

• A sidebar… Of course, this is just a layout element, but I want to make a modular sidebar that I can configure the contents of
• Static pages. Even a blog needs a few static pages: a blog author profile maybe, and stuff like that. These should really be handled the same way as ordinary posts, but probably have a different URL and not show up among the other posts.
• Full text search. Ideally, the same search will look in posts, tags, and static pages.
• Automatic blog ping via XML-RPC
• Category list in sidebar. This is probably just a tag cloud like feature, but since I think I really dislike tag clouds it’ll probably look more list-like.
• A link to blog.rb’s home on GitHub. I feel like I need to take some time cleaning up docs in the project before I publish the link. The link is there for anyone to find anyway, but it’s more official if I link to it from here…

After all of the above: who knows? Maybe it’s time I put some energy in a real project instead of this toy… We’ll see.