New Thing
I’m reaching a point where I feel like I’m really good at the things I’m good at, I tend to default to using the things I’m good at, and don’t know much about stuff I don’t use. There are some nasty Venn diagrams that come from that statement, but the essence of it is pretty accurate.
I’m not sure I like that completely. I almost wrote Clarity in node.js just for giggles, just to bust into something new and not-Python. If I had a little more time to devote to the project I might have. But that’s kind of what it comes down to: I want a lightweight, customized photoblog more than I want to learn something new. And I didn’t want to hose my freshly-unhosed server putting it together. That was enough to set me back to copying boilerplate out of Efendi’s git repository.
I just did some VBA coding for a friend here, and it kind of felt like playing tee ball. It felt good to swing the bat, but there was nothing much new, aside from incidental learning. I’m resolutely looking for chances to break that rut.