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                    JOURNAL FOR MONDAY 13TH OCTOBER, 2014
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SUBJECT: Why Mondays? or Tuesdays?
   DATE: Mon 13 Oct 20:13:23 BST 2014

First off an answer to a question I get asked quite a bit. If I usually code
on a Wednesday and/or Thursday why don't I usually post anything until the
following Monday or Tuesday?

Hrm. I don't write anything on the days I'm coding because... I'm coding :) I
tend to get very little time to code and the time I do get I treat that time
as precious. Or to look at it another way would you rather I write code or
journal entries?

This is usually where people say "But why don't you write on a Friday or over
the weekend?".

Good question. Friday is the end of a usually long week. By then I've had
enough and just want to crash and chill watching a good film. Usually a good
science fiction or horror film will do me :)

So what about Saturday or Sunday? Usually I'm recuperating from the week,
catching up on essential housekeeping type stuff - bills, grocery shopping,
mow the lawns when weather permits, even some ironing[1] and spending some
time with my family.

Now for the latest update from last Wednesday and Thursday :)

Currently reviewing my changes, cleaning up code and writing or updating
comments. Next I need to organise all of my changes in reasonably sized
commits - currently have nearly 300 changes over 7 files.

This is the typical "I've made a lot of changes hacking around all over the
place until things work" scenario I commonly find myself in. It takes time to
unravel everything but it acts as its own code review and focuses your
concentration on the changes at hand.

I've also had a few people asking about the value store I mentioned a week or
two ago[2]. I haven't done any more work on it - since it did its job - and
there are no current plans to us it for WolfMUD - but you never know it might
happen.

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Diddymus

  [1] Yes, I am fully house trained and can do helpful stuff like cook and
      do the ironing ;)

  [2] See journal entry for September 30th: ../9/30.html


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