Why I'm Not Doing Anything

Recently I haven’t been very active in the various projects I’m involved with. I’ve been doing stuff like applying patches and fixing minor bugs for Haml, but no major development. I’ve answered a few make_resourceful questions on the mailing list, but haven’t touched the code. I’ve barely even thought about Scribble. I’ve even been negligent in my blog posts; this is my first post in over a week.

This isn’t because I’m losing interest or anything; on the contrary, I’d love to spend more time working on this stuff. I just don’t have more time. Microsoft takes up a good ten hours every weekday (eight hours there and an hour-long commute each way). I’m a zombie if I don’t get enough sleep. That doesn’t leave me with a lot of free time.

What time I do have, on weekends and squeezed in on weekdays, I’ve been spending (perhaps foolishly) on a personal project. I’m not ready to unveil it yet, although I’ve talked to some folks about it. It may never see the light of day at all. But it’s fun to work on, so it’s also been sucking my time.

Life will probably continue more or less as-is until the end of my internship, which I believe ends some time in early September. Then I’ll have a good three weeks free until school starts, when I plan to do some serious catching up.

For your entertainment, I’ll list some stuff I’m planning on doing for each project:

• Haml/Sass
  • Refactor the Engine/Buffer relationship to make the code prettier and saner.
  • Allow filters to be evaluated at runtime.
  • Make CSS @-rules work.
• Scribble!
  • Implement various syntax changes
  • Add support for gradients
  • Get 0.1 out the door
• make_resourceful
  • Figure out how to deal with differences between stable and edge Rails
  • Figure out what should happen with nested resources
  • Flesh out tests/documentation

Soon!