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Writing about constantly redesigning his blog, Marc remarks:

"However this constant back and forth was increasingly coming at a cost I could no longer stomach. Blog posts that could have been written were scrapped in favour of redesigning over the smallest of issues. The promise of new ideas emerging while writing a post disappeared in favour of endlessly tweaking a colour slider. Building a body of work was delayed due to to-ing and fro-ing over fonts."

This rings so true. I wonder how much more can, or should, I add to (b)log-In? How much of the design process happens in lieu of, and as a substitute for, actually writing?

As a case in point, I've made more tweaks and additions over the past couple of days including the ability to send webmentions for bookmarks which I will almost certainly never use. Bug fixes are one thing but how far can/should I take functionality when the idea was to keep this clean and simple?

Designing and coding the system is a creative process but it is supposed to be a means to an end, a way to facilitate easier blogging rather than the focus. I sometimes worry that I tinker and tweak because I have no creative ideas and nothing to say, so at what point do I say 'enough' and declare this feature complete?

Or do I just be realistic and admit that will likely never happen?