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Lol I just read this after a "break" working on my winter break on a project I "started" almost three years ago. I checked in with the community and it turns o
by kator 11y ago
Lol I just read this after a "break" working on my winter break on a project I "started" almost three years ago. I checked in with the community and it turns out they're still using the junk I made years ago, it's helping people be really productive, but nobody understands how to modernize it.
So here I sit three years after "starting" the project and basically going back to work. Now I've spent the last 8 days straight coding about 6 to 10 hours a day on my vacation to "start" it again, but way cleaner. My two goals are, one I want my wife to be able to use it (ease of use) and second I want to empower the guy who picked it up to be great at maintaining it after I eventually return to the real world.
I learned years ago that I am good at the blank page, the staring back at you empty cursor is my favorite time. The clay is fresh and the images dance in my head of all the potential of that flashing cursor. I'm not the guy who really enjoys wading in up to my ears into a million lines of code and refactoring it to some new vision. I can do that but it doesn't get me out of bed every day at 5am on my "vacation".