Coming up with titles and thinking about what to write is the number of cause of most of my failures. Yet anything would do really. There is no promise that it'll be good by given enough days it'll start to resemble something that is getting good. That's all that I wish to aim for. As you have noticed or not noticed, I haven't written for a while. You see last year I wondered what it would be like to write everyday for a year. I did not manage to write everyday but I got damn close. The year was over and so was my quest. So I need a new one and I've got the perfect title. The only goal is to write one more than I have already. But I don't want to write for the sake or curiosity of writing. I've sang that song already. It's pretty good but not worth repeating. So this time I want to do something different. Coincidentally it's also the time I'm working on something interesting. I'd like to write about that. There won't be any details early on but as time goes on and it's closer to completion. Maybe a month or so. I've got a few days off as Christmas is near. I'd like to use this time and make a dent in it.
To start is the hardest part. The next hard part is to persist. Projects even the ones that fail have a great deal of value. Even the ones where you spend years working on something that does not directly bear fruit. The time spent working on the thing itself is the value. Most people don't even do that. There is no point spending years on something that you have no idea that'll work out. They are right as long as they persist and build the next thing. Yet most of them which was me a year ago...wait. In the hope that when the right idea comes along they'll build it. With what? They have not accumulated the tools or have an inkling of idea of what it takes. That is if they even recognize the thing that's hit them in the face.
I used to wonder, how come I have no problems I'd like to solve for myself. Last month I understood why. Because I was waiting to have a problem. When I really found it out was when I spent over a year building the thing. I came across heaps of problems that needed solving. Problems that I needed solutions for. The thing is, all you have to do is stick around. Don't let the abyss scare you into quitting. It's not that far and yet just a little further. It's not something you need to concern yourself with as you have a lot to do right here.
OS update
I've been using Pop OS for a while now. Mostly because it gives me a window manager in eight lines of config. Yesterday I updated to v24.04. At first I was concerned as my eight lines of config had no effect. I jumped the gun to early. Turns out I did not need those eight lines. They've built it in. So now I have an OS that has a window manager built in. The only config that I had to do was switch the Super key from Window key to Alt. They've apparently done a complete rewrite in Rust. It's even better than it was. I had to make few adjustments to how I worked and they've all turned out for the better. Even better as I don't need a theme anymore to make it look good.