There has been an itch to work on something as I have some time during my day now. Quite a lot of it in fact. As both my own product and contract projects are in a stable place and nothing major is planned soon. Also, I'm procrastinating reaching out to potential clients. Which reminds me, I need to add a todo item to email one today. Which does not seem to hard to do, to email one potential client; I digress. I need something to build at all times, I know it's not ideal but that's just how it is. I'm at my laziest and time wastey when I'm nearing the end of something difficult or past one.
For the compiler I have an idea so that it becomes of more use to others . I want to visualize the internal workings of the compiler as it compiles code. See how code goes from text to tree to bytes to memory and finally execution. I think it's a neat idea. I could run it on the browser or the terminal, now that I'm thinking a browser might be a better idea. A problem for later; I digress again.
So I've been reading some books and most of them say to scratch your own itch. I agree. But what if the itch is that I am looking for an itch. How do people deal with this in between stage of quiet? I'm not a big fan of this time. Taking time off sounds like a horrible idea as I'll just have more time to think of how I have nothing to do. Maybe it's not a terrible idea, not sure yet. At the same time I know from my own experience, the best way to solve a problem is to face it. This is quite a strange one as the problem is a lack of problem. I could do some internal reflection of the need for a problem to solve, but I like solving problems far too much for that.
A lot of time in life seems to be this in between stage of nothingness. Or some of it. It just seems like a lot, now that I realize it's only been maybe two or three weeks in the last seven months. So what to do about it? I had an idea this morning. To setup the repository for my next project. I even timed it this time. It takes me about five minutes to go from Zero to a landing page, database and Auth. Thanks to my own starter of course. Actually just talking about it here has given me a few ideas of things to build. This blog as it turns out is my Rubber Ducky. So when in doubt, write? Seems so. Also, I found that it helps to revisit an old book, blog, idea that springs to mind. One always springs to my mind. It won't solve the problem, but it'll point you to the next step.
I found what I was looking for. I have to make a mental note of this. When stuck, write about it. No one has the time to read now anyway, so write the shit that comes out of your head, as it's coming out. That just gave the picture of dropping kids off into the pool. If you know you know.
This was fun.