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Resolution to write garbage
Feb. 1st, 2021 08:47 pmI'm just not productive enough. I delete things. I delete posts, I delete comments, I delete tweets and toots. Like 5% of what I write makes it out alive, and the rest is written and then deleted again.
I guess part of it is thinking I have nothing worth saying, and part of it is getting stuck at the title or the subject line or the intro paragraph. This doesn't make sense, it sounds dumb, it's too abrupt, no one will understand it.
Here is my new year's resolution in February: I resolve to write garbage here, when I want to. Lots and lots of garbage. It will not be understandable to you. It will not flow nicely or fit in a narrative. It'll just use space up on a forgotten corner of the internet.
Got my book order to Powell's mostly ready. Self help book, one sentence 5 year diary (just to record what happened, since I definitely forget), programming book, cookbook, and something else. Oh never mind, it's actually still 4 books but I was hoping to make it 5 and add something Node.js or React related.
Been feeling sour about React lately because the one thing I finished leaks memory like a sieve. I wonder if the whole thing would be less clunky if I made it in vanilla Javascript instead? I think the detached nodes problem would follow me, but if I figured out how to remove the event handlers and the list nodes or whatever on updating the page, I'd fix the problem. Meanwhile, React should be cleaning that stuff up, and I think it isn't, and I don't know why. Anyway, I think I'll probably get a better idea of what to do in part 6 of Full Stack Open, so in the meantime I can let the library app rest for a bit.
I guess part of it is thinking I have nothing worth saying, and part of it is getting stuck at the title or the subject line or the intro paragraph. This doesn't make sense, it sounds dumb, it's too abrupt, no one will understand it.
Here is my new year's resolution in February: I resolve to write garbage here, when I want to. Lots and lots of garbage. It will not be understandable to you. It will not flow nicely or fit in a narrative. It'll just use space up on a forgotten corner of the internet.
Got my book order to Powell's mostly ready. Self help book, one sentence 5 year diary (just to record what happened, since I definitely forget), programming book, cookbook, and something else. Oh never mind, it's actually still 4 books but I was hoping to make it 5 and add something Node.js or React related.
Been feeling sour about React lately because the one thing I finished leaks memory like a sieve. I wonder if the whole thing would be less clunky if I made it in vanilla Javascript instead? I think the detached nodes problem would follow me, but if I figured out how to remove the event handlers and the list nodes or whatever on updating the page, I'd fix the problem. Meanwhile, React should be cleaning that stuff up, and I think it isn't, and I don't know why. Anyway, I think I'll probably get a better idea of what to do in part 6 of Full Stack Open, so in the meantime I can let the library app rest for a bit.