So, I guess it’s kind of appropriate that my first real post on this blog would be about my first real program-type-thing, which was sent out into the world earlier today. It’s not really a program; it’s a snippet of javascript and a bunch of CSS that allows users of Instapaper to use a different stylesheet, namely the one I made, which gives it a more newsy kind of look.

I love Instapaper. I don’t use that many applications, really, but I use Instapaper all the time. This might be because I like to read news articles and certain blog posts pretty much every day, and many news sites are designed so you are assaulted visually while trying to simply read one of the articles on the site. Instapaper is an application that lets you tag articles or web pages to “read later.” Those articles get collected at your Instapaper account page, and you can go there whenever you want and read just the article – not all the crap and flash and ads and poor layout or whatever it is about the original site in question that bothered you. Continue reading →