Liminal entities must often remember that their history do not get discarded by any means; such divergence yields feeling so strong that it almost entitles its own proper noun.1
What happened lately
Persona
Moved to a new place. Markdown on blog. New themes, new plans.
Work
Completely immersed within Raphaël and “advanced” (read: “get tortured”) JavaScript. Revamped monoSnippets due to business needs. Scaffolded mono.calendarEngine & mono.twitterEngine based on old code, both scheduled to release by April 15th. Worked on COSCUP for a while, but did not have much time to push everything out by the end of the month.
There are many people who work two jobs, one being the day job which provides shelter and sustenance, while the other “night” career sustains their soul. People are often taught that it is almost sinful to have a job worth loving, and suffering a bad job, or “working super hard” is often at most a necessity.
Once agreeing with the point, I do not see it the same anymore. Any minute that I am doing chores, meeting boring people, making the latest project compatible with IE 6, working on something that is extremely less interesting — is a waste. Any minute that I am not working on the most exciting thing that I could lay my hands upon is also a waste.
This explains the snobbiness which, given its adequacy, is a good thing.
I just bid yesterday farewell; spent approximately one month lingering over this dying project. It might be resurrected someday, but I am not so sure.
Pros: learnt JSON and JSON-based programming; learnt XML-RPC and how to give WordPress a plugin; got a fresh hands-on glimpse of object-oriented programming; learnt how to properly CSS cross-platform; got a lifetime hatred of Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Fate bestows.
Next: the data project, which is a fairly small one. And a photo visualizer. Computer Arts and New Media is a fairly interesting subject, but I am still shopping around for one right for me.
