Long time, no new posts
The last post I wrote is more than 4 Months old. A lot has happened in this time.
But first, why no new posts? Short story, I had no energy to write and completely lost motivation.
I think there are several factors involved here. For example, the obvious one, Summer. 🌞 I'm outside working on stuff for the kids or playing with the kids. We got a pool, which demands a good chunk of time. Just in the last few days of Summer, I've found a setup for the pool which is working and saves me some time. It is like a new development project with unfamiliar tools, you need some time to adjust and find your flow.
Another factor is, my new client. Or the Window's notebook I'm forced to use. Normally, I work on one machine and this is a Linux for the past 15 years. Or a Mac, since the start of 2023. Closing the lid of the notebook triggers the signal for quitting time in me.
Then I played some games. First, I started with Assassin's Creed Mirage, which I abandoned after 17hrs. But then, I Discovered “Oxygen Not Included”. At the time of writing, I spent Almost 70hrs. 😅 Addictive as hell.
In the middle of September, I’ve started another project with a second client. Sounds like, there was spare time all along so that I could start the second project. 😂
What else? For over a year I have a long term private project which I spent time on. In the summer I’ve decided to add translations to the project and later, rewrite the whole thing to tailwind. Which is still going on. I don’t know why I did it (should have focused more on getting the project itself done), but here I am. But the results are nice. So, at last, it was a good decision, and I'm happy I did it. 👌
And, because I don’t have enough to-do, I started two smaller projects, where the aim was to complete as much as possible on one weekend. (I'll write about them separately) And it worked quite well. One of the projects is still in the works because I’ve added more features. Currently, I need time to fine tune it. Let’s see when there is time for it. 😅
The reason I’ve started these projects was, even though I’m working more than 15 years as a developer, I don’t really have something to show. With these projects, this should end. And I have some more little idea.💡
Apropos idea’s, I have some, how to continue with this blog and to complete the #100DaysToOffload. I realized, one thing that is also keeping me from writing, is the fact that I have to prepare each post. Tag them correctly and write a post on mastodon. But, I don’t have to. I can just write and publish new posts, and do the tagging and mastodon publishing later. With this mindset, I can write posts on my phone and polish them later on my MacBook. 👌
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