Reboot.
It would be fair to say I have been going thought a bit of a reboot as they say in the film industry when remaking the same comic book stories just in a grittier way.
Last weekend I managed to get a couple of nights where I slept for 11 hours, this compares with my more normal 7 hours. That was a sure sign things were not quite right. My productivity at home was nearly zero.
In the UK it has been pretty sunny so we have been hitting the beach, body boarding a fair bit. We are also in the process of trying to move but that did not really take account of my lack of motivation.
A reboot was needed. First I signed up for a half marathon in a few months time. This has kicked started my exercise routine, I had been on a bit of a rest for a few weeks but really needed to get back into it. I seems to get more done when I am exercising a quite a bit.
The next thing was to take stock of what I have been developing at home. I realized I was attempting to create things I thought people might like rather than creating things I want to create. I seem to have forgotten the main point was fun.
I also am not releasing early/fast enough. In fact I have not gone public with anything for a couple of months with the exception of posts to this blog. That is a bad thing and something I need, yes need, to rectify.
Fiddling with technology is something I tend to do when I want to procrastinate. This has had the benefit that that my vim set up is much improved. I have played with typescript but found the compiler too slow. I also noticed that I didn't miss some of the higher level constructs from CoffeeScript. Eventually this led me to decide to drop CoffeeScript and use plain JavaScript. I think I am starting to appreciate JavaScript and with the improved Vim set up it feels quite productive. The tern for vim plug gives good code completion for JavaScript inside vim and was the straw that broke the proverbial CoffeeScript camels back. The code-try it out loop in JavaScript is pretty fast. I am sure it could be improved.
Not releasing anything for a while is probably the thing I need to fix soon as much enjoyment comes from releasing stuff. My first task is to get the voyagingmind.com website updated and republished. There will not be anything on it at the moment but that is not the point. I quite literally want to start releasing stuff. That is what is important.
Last weekend I managed to get a couple of nights where I slept for 11 hours, this compares with my more normal 7 hours. That was a sure sign things were not quite right. My productivity at home was nearly zero.
In the UK it has been pretty sunny so we have been hitting the beach, body boarding a fair bit. We are also in the process of trying to move but that did not really take account of my lack of motivation.
A reboot was needed. First I signed up for a half marathon in a few months time. This has kicked started my exercise routine, I had been on a bit of a rest for a few weeks but really needed to get back into it. I seems to get more done when I am exercising a quite a bit.
The next thing was to take stock of what I have been developing at home. I realized I was attempting to create things I thought people might like rather than creating things I want to create. I seem to have forgotten the main point was fun.
I also am not releasing early/fast enough. In fact I have not gone public with anything for a couple of months with the exception of posts to this blog. That is a bad thing and something I need, yes need, to rectify.
Fiddling with technology is something I tend to do when I want to procrastinate. This has had the benefit that that my vim set up is much improved. I have played with typescript but found the compiler too slow. I also noticed that I didn't miss some of the higher level constructs from CoffeeScript. Eventually this led me to decide to drop CoffeeScript and use plain JavaScript. I think I am starting to appreciate JavaScript and with the improved Vim set up it feels quite productive. The tern for vim plug gives good code completion for JavaScript inside vim and was the straw that broke the proverbial CoffeeScript camels back. The code-try it out loop in JavaScript is pretty fast. I am sure it could be improved.
Not releasing anything for a while is probably the thing I need to fix soon as much enjoyment comes from releasing stuff. My first task is to get the voyagingmind.com website updated and republished. There will not be anything on it at the moment but that is not the point. I quite literally want to start releasing stuff. That is what is important.
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