Commuting with noise canceling ear buds, in my case AirPodPros, changes the experience entirely. Just putting them in transports you to a quiet, peaceful place. When you take them out and your eardrums get assaulted by the noisy world is when you realize, you can’t go back.

I've been blocked with Tanzawa development for a while as I mull how to simultaneously use Tanzawa to make my own unique site and let it be flexible enough for others without making them adapt to everything I do. If someone else is using Tanzawa to power their site, I want it to be an expression of them, not me.

I recently figured out the answer to allow this: plugins.

Inspired by @maique's Tanzawa Love post, I finally sat down and started working on what plugins might look like. Ideally a plugin should be able to customize or extend anything anywhere, but I'm starting small: adding things to public pages.

This is the first plugin: a widget to display the current localtime in the top nav.

I imagine the capabilities growing over time. I'd like to let plugins store and manage data (e.g. settings), let them schedule periodic work ( e.g. call this api every hour and do something ), and maybe even run background tasks. But for now they're simple. Thank you for the inspiration @maique!