Now using a blogging client
Seems like blogging turned out to be too much work for a lazy guy like me. There is much I like tell the world my opinion on, but it seems I find logging in to the blog provider’s website and setting up a new post is too much of a hurdle for me.
Now is my second try with the blogging client Blogilo for KDE. Contrary to the trend of doing everything in the browser, personally I still prefer client software whenever I have the choice for three reasons:
- Interaction in web applications is developing rapidly and often in a more innovative way than desktop apps. But web apps aren’t on par with good desktop apps yet. They are still slower, they still don’t work 100% consistently across browsers and they are not integrated with the system.
- Everything I do happens directly on the server. The thought of having all my personal data stored on someone else’s server still makes me really uncomfortable. And of course, most of the commonly used web apps aren’t open source, so I don’t even know what happens with my data on that server.
- Although I can often choose between different webapps for the same purpose, once I’ve used one app for some time I become locked-in. With desktop apps, as long as they use compatible data formats (which is mostly the case with open source apps), I can switch apps any time.
That’s why I love desktop apps and try to support them. And for things like blogs which I want to publish on the web in the end, I love APIs. I find it really cool to be able to access my blog form a client software. This solves problem 1 and 3 and partly solves problem 2 (I still don’t know what happens behind the API, but that isn’t really a problem for blogging since I’m writing a blog precisely for anyone to read it and don’t know what others will do with what I write anyway).
So, long story short, yay for client applications and yay for APIs!
Hope I will be more motivated to post more often now.