Newsletter March 2026: Blog improvements and ideas

This month I did some minor improvements to my blog:

• I fixed broken links

• I properly marked up tags using Microformats

• I improved index page navigation

• I improved HTML conformance with markup2website 1.10.0

I also came across the post The Noble Path which made me reflect on how I related to it in the blog post Reflections on "The Noble Path" and Timeline.

I also watched the Youtube video C Strings are Terrible! It inspired me to get into more low level C programming again. I do want to continue working on rlworkbench and I have other ideas for what to program in C as well.

Another idea that I have for rlworkbench is to use it to create a game development environment for kids. I imagine implementing a small language in rlworkbench which allows you to build simple games. Think snake. I would like the environment to be live so that you can immediately see the changes that you make to the game. No explicit compiling or restarting should be necessary. And perhaps I would like the game to be exportable to HTML/Javascript for publishing on the web.

Why do I want this? Because I want to show my son that a computer is something that you can actually program. I suspect that the vast majority of people do not see computers that way. Phones and tables combined with attention seeking social media applications certainly don't help.

TODO

Here are the things that I'm currently most interested in working on next month:

• rlworkbench

  • Think about how to use it to create a game dev environment for kids

  • Start using rlworkbench instead of Vim as my default text editor

    • Implement the features that I'm missing

      • Search function for quicker navigation

      • Ability to open files

      • w and b to move forwards/backwards a "word"

        • A "word" should be defined by the language?

• My blog

  • Migrate all blog posts to it

  • Fix redirects

    • For blog posts

    • For pages: rickardlindberg.me/projects/x -> projects.rickardlindberg.me/x

      • Same for tags?

  • Syndicate projects to Github

  • Display mentions on blog posts

    • Better handling of dates (use date of post if present)

  • Make different post types render nicely

    • Icons?

• Computer, Enhance!

  • Continue course and do more homework