I was all ready to write up an essay about little tricks I've discovered while developing the Python integration with Frontier, and got distracted.

You see, I wanted to write the post in a particular way. I have learned to dislike the textarea widget in the browser as a writing tool -- not that it doesn't do the job, but it just doesn't do the job all that well. It's limitted to the size specified in the HTML. It's not really WYSIWYG. It's not an outliner.

I wanted to write in an outliner.

(As a side note, I really wish you could use the outliner built into Radio to post a blog entry. It's rather weird that you can't.)

I'm at work, so I can't use MarsEdit. So I'm left with the web interface to my blog.

Let's see: 1. Wanted to write a blog post. 2. Wanted to write it in an outliner. 3. Have Frontier installed on my machine at work. 4. Have outliner in Frontier.

What's the end result? Instead of writing the blog post, I spend my time writing some scripts in Frontier to render an outline into a form that is simple to cut and paste into the web-based blog interface.

Well, I suppose I did get around to posting something, but it's a lot more meta than I'd like.

I'll get around to writing the original post. I just thought it was amusing that I wanted to write prose and ended up writing code. This is a common programmer affliction.

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