February 2012
6 posts
It terrifies me how much time I spend on the internet, consuming for consumption’s sake. Given half the chance, I’ll while away hours middle-clicking TVTropes links.
So I’m taking the chance away. I’m allowing myself but ten cumulative minutes per day on any remotely distracting website, courtesy of StayFocusd.
And I’m giving myself more opportunity to create. I...
Deactivating my Facebook account was one of the least pleasant experiences I’ve had in a long while. The page is littered at the top with pictures of me and various people, with the captions “ will miss you”. It went on to ask me why I’m leaving and list all the things that would break were I to go through with it: pages I was the sole admin of, apps I was the sole...
I have, two days running, on two separate email clients, on two separate operating systems, accidentally replied by email to myself. This is 2012. This kind of shit shouldn’t happen anymore.
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I wish I’d found out about promises when I started writing Gusto. Because now I want to rewrite it.
It turns out that Struct was a rather poor choice of name. Dammit, Apache. It shall heretofore be known as Gusto.
I went for a walk in the snow.
With a scarf around my face, a camera over my shoulder and two pairs of socks, I headed toward campus.
Through wind, sludge and gates, I arrived at a pond that two freshers were pushing a tonne of snow into. It sank. My lens cap promptly embedded itself inches deep in snow.
Up spiral stairs and frosty ladders I came to a gravelled roof and views of everything.
Down and home to...