Just this, then bed.

I’ve been sleeping irregularly lately. Waking up too early at best, in the middle of the night at worst. A past girlfriend would’ve told me I’ve been ‘activated’. Myself, I blame it on stress. Self-induced stress. It started with last year’s Advent of Code. A colleague mentioned it, said I should give it a go. So I did, half-heartedly – and got hooked. There’s no crack of dawn during winter in Norway, just darkness, but I was up all the same, eagerly awaiting the day’s puzzles, not finding rest until they were done. I relished the challenges, to use my brain for something real for a change (although really, it wasn’t that real), instead of just generating ifs and elses for a living.

Then Christmas came and went, and with it the puzzles.

But my brain kept spinning. I stumbled across exercism and installed Rust. I want to learn Rust. But I also want to pick up Lisp again, and Prolog and Smalltalk, all of which I made acquaintance with during my studies a quarter of a century ago, but never since.

So I dug out the old code snippets that had been languishing in Dropbox and decided they needed a promotion. To GitHub, no less. But how? To each snippet its own repository seemed like total overkill. Then I came across kvz’s depreciation hack, and apart from the fact that I’m not at all ashamed of my old code, it was a perfect fit.

So since yesterday, there it is, my scrapbook.

And now this. This site has held nothing but a static ‘Hello World’ index.html file for almost a year. I wanted to do more, but despite my 25 years in the business, I had never done web development. Yes, irrational though it may sound, web development intimidated me.

But as fate would have it, I interviewed for an iOS gig, got it, and then priorities shifted and they tossed Symfony, Laravel and Ionic at me instead. It’s been over 6 months now, and the hairy mess that is HTML/CSS/JavaScript is much less messy in my head now.

So now this.

There may be more. But now bed.