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2022-01-01

Hello 2022

#life

So another year Gregorian Calendar style has begun. Hello New Year! And a Happy New Year to all, who adhere to this calendar. Good day to everyone!

How did I fare with the 2021 resolution?

/en/2021/20210101-Hello-2021.gmi

/en/2021/20210908-good-bye-alfa.gmi

Two out of three, yes, well, but "the list" was much longer of course.

Best of 2021

2022 Resolution?

A tech goal for a techie/nerd? Isn't that kind of boring? I mean, whenever I feel the irresistible urge to learn rust and rewrite everything I ever did with it ... I could start any ol'time, right? Same with Go, right? How about something a bit more challenging like

or alternately

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher_(software)

or

These days I thought that there should be one entry of a thing to let go. Let's face it, one cannot really increase the pile of wanted activity, while the available time to do this is not increasing at all. So? Giving away my guitar? Well, yes maybe, but that would not free up any time.

Nonetheless, there is this thing, that would hurt to give up. Its a software project, where the benevolent dictator for life was called off this planet quite prematurely. I was his number one user. I really used this stuff. I send a lot of bug reports. I participated on the mailing list. I donated code snippets, documentation, and worked project descriptions. I gave talks about it here and there. I taught this stuff to others several times. I even met the author a few times in person and we had a very pleasant time. I managed to find a few very elusive bugs. I managed to find and fix a few not so obvious bugs. I was able to get authorization to manage the website and the subversion repository. All well then?

No. At the end of the day this project is too big for me. There is a fundamental difference between a "power user" and a "designer" of such a piece of software. It has grown over time to accomodate four target platforms, where I only know and use one of them. I would be interested in one other target, but I have not found the motivation and time to wrap my head around something quite different.

This project I should let go. But its not easy. I kind of owe the original author to at least keep the project available, with all its quirks and shortcomings. Nonetheless, this wonderful piece of programming art sits somewhat heavy on my mind and chest.

Choose wisely,

~ew

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