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Hah. I'm afraid that -- between being currently funemployed, having just had all of my worldly possessions (at least for this year) stolen out of the back of my

Hah. I'm afraid that -- between being currently funemployed, having just had all of my worldly possessions (at least for this year) stolen out of the back of my car last week, and discovering that travel insurance doesn't really cover it very well ... I can certainly think of a few good uses for it ;) I'm afraid that I'm still "actively" working on everything (except for Ruby-Processing, which has been passed along), but it's all on a light simmer on the slow burner. More excitingly, there's a new OSS project, still in the early planning stages, which I'm pretty jazzed about. Seriously though, thanks for the nudge. Much of the time, open source can feel like a slog through a bottomless pit for inane GitHub issues, with the occasional diamond in the rough. Your article is making open source feel more like a friendly love-in tonight.

whit537 13y ago
Geez, man. Wow. I'm sorry. :-( I can't believe I'm asking this, but what would it take for you to work on open-source full time instead of going back to NYT in the winter? Is that something you would even want? What would it take to keep you funemployed forever?
- jashkenas 13y ago
  > Is that something you would even want? I don't think so. Having a balance between short-term deadline driven stories and slower, larger, more greenfield projects is a terribly nice luxury for a programmer to have. I also find it hard to imagine a more interesting and enlivening day-to-day environment than a national newsroom. I talk a little bit more about it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3HanxEFFlk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3HanxEFFlk ... and Derek's got a great post from this morning about the job as well: http://thescoop.org/archives/2013/07/16/why-develop-in-the-newsroom/ http://thescoop.org/archives/2013/07/16/why-develop-in-the-n...
  - whit537 13y ago
    Fair enough. Thanks for the links, and for giving Gittip a try. :-)
ilaksh 13y ago
Can we get a hint about the new project that is in early planning stages?
- jashkenas 13y ago
  Hint: "Will It Blend?"
  - ilaksh 13y ago
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USiaeXzYkOE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USiaeXzYkOE So definitely a high performance open source kitchen appliance. Or something to do with open source movies/3d (Blender). Or maybe its something like literate CoffeeScript but allowing you to use any language that compiles to JavaScript. Or maybe its a way to edit programs interactively by using a non-textual abstract syntax storage format that allows for different types of presentations or editors. Like reactive CSS for ASTs or something. LOL.
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whit537 13y ago

Geez, man. Wow. I'm sorry. :-( I can't believe I'm asking this, but what would it take for you to work on open-source full time instead of going back to NYT in the winter? Is that something you would even want? What would it take to keep you funemployed forever?

jashkenas 13y ago
> Is that something you would even want? I don't think so. Having a balance between short-term deadline driven stories and slower, larger, more greenfield projects is a terribly nice luxury for a programmer to have. I also find it hard to imagine a more interesting and enlivening day-to-day environment than a national newsroom. I talk a little bit more about it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3HanxEFFlk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3HanxEFFlk ... and Derek's got a great post from this morning about the job as well: http://thescoop.org/archives/2013/07/16/why-develop-in-the-newsroom/ http://thescoop.org/archives/2013/07/16/why-develop-in-the-n...
- whit537 13y ago
  Fair enough. Thanks for the links, and for giving Gittip a try. :-)

ilaksh 13y ago

Can we get a hint about the new project that is in early planning stages?

jashkenas 13y ago
Hint: "Will It Blend?"
- ilaksh 13y ago
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USiaeXzYkOE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USiaeXzYkOE So definitely a high performance open source kitchen appliance. Or something to do with open source movies/3d (Blender). Or maybe its something like literate CoffeeScript but allowing you to use any language that compiles to JavaScript. Or maybe its a way to edit programs interactively by using a non-textual abstract syntax storage format that allows for different types of presentations or editors. Like reactive CSS for ASTs or something. LOL.
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