I was going back and forth for some time how lightweight my shell will be. I ended on the decision to bake everything into the binary I need to be productive, except for some tools too large to reproduce. So Neovim is safe, I will not try to rewrite it on a weekend - what a disappointment for the orange site I visit sometimes. But what certainly made it into the codebase is a file manager.
We live near a pre school and an elementary school. Each morning when walking Triss we see kids and their parents on their way to drop off the little ones. And the majority of parents simply walk straight across the street. The Main Street of the town, not the most traffic, but still some traffic. And you'd think: Timo, why would that matter, you have to get across the street somehow. True, but 20 meters down the road is a crosswalk. It is right on the way, and you do not gain anything by not using it.
It has been round about six months since I started working on LazerBunny. Which means I am getting close to the point where I want to evaluate my progress and do a little mini retrospective to see if any of the effort and time that went into it was actually worth it. Not in the classical project management sense of identifying sunken cost fallacies and self-flagellation, but more a curious look at which parts were the most fun and where I might want to invest more time in.
I mentioned in a previous post that I am working on a CalDav server (creative as always I named it LazerBunny cal), to take control of my appointments and calendaring needs. The first iteration was working decently well with Apple Calendar. During this week I fixed a few issues making it also work nicely with any calendar app that uses Evolution as its backend.
I am closing in on 30 years in the industry. One thing I did not imagine when I just started out was that the list of “things I have seen” would constantly grow over the decades. How naive I was, believing people know what they are doing, management making decisions based on data and the market not being a dice roll for who can lie the best. On the bright side this makes for some really good stories.