Focus and finishing

Posted by ook Sun, 01 Jan 2012 10:10:00 GMT

Last wednesday, I had a very interesting argument about life's goals with Oleg, my co-worker at Pierlis.

No matter how I came to that thoughts, but I think about my personnal projects, my short-term goals. I spent the evening in doubts. I have to recognize that I have far too many "open projects" at once to achieve one of them.


Here a list of what I'd call "active" projects:

  • pavatar ruby lib
  • pavatar integration for typo
  • typo globally
  • ass2m (mainly the gallery plugin)
  • exif_classifier
  • remove_duplicate
  • my medias automations (home scripts)
  • upgrade my C++ skill
  • learning japanese
  • fine tunes my computer configurations at home

That's scaring for "free-time" activities. More if you consider that I have very few free-time hour: something between 3 and 10 a week.

In front of my projects, there's some rather logical and incompressible obligations that step in my free-time:

  • give support to my wife on a day to day basis
  • bring up my daughter
  • DIY stuff in my house
  • selling my house

To tell the truth, my daughter being just 2yo, my current priority is definitly taking care of her, then house cleaning, then etc. So there's even few free-time left. And I have a BIG problem of focus.

Just see: what's remaining about exif-classifier? Just the destination regexp. For the main problem, it should be 4hr work.

What about remove_duplicate? Just preparing test-cases to validate my algorithm, and fine-tune parameters / cli-feedback.

Pavatar lib? Just the caching systems.

So I have one more problem: once I get rid of the main problem, I lost interest in my project, even if it could *really* help me as exif_classifier and remove_dupicate.


When I start writing this post, I'd want to write an introspecting post. Now it's definitly a new year's resolution post (yes, the same thing I tell I never do...) that I combine with a "focus wish".

So, here my goals:

Doing in that strict order:

  1. finish remove_duplicate
  2. finish exif_classifier
  3. make a gem for these two
  4. implements better view for ass2m gallery
  5. finish pavatar lib
  6. integrate it in typo

Well, it should be sufficient for 2012.

Wish my good luck.

Wish you a good year 2012, with many success and sharing.