Daily posting, workload

At the end of last month I was shooting for a decent post every day, but somehow I ended up not doing that.  I’ll try to renew my efforts, even though I have a lot of interesting stuff on my plate.

Actually, I’m about to drop all the “interesting stuff” on my plate and get back into Unity Linux.  I needed to stick my head into a big-ish programming project just to make sure that my newfound abilities really do extend past cool ideas into an actual completed project.

80% programmers

Many side projects have major issues with getting past the “80% done” stage.  While I haven’t had the skill to begin serious projects and try for the 1-80%, I was one of those people who could help bring a beta-quality project up to ~90%.

Now it looks like I may be able to tackle my own small projects.  It looks like I can handle the 1-40%, but if I can fill in the rest of that gap it means that I’d be capable of a 1-90% small project, which seems pretty rare for a single-developer small project.

New hosting

I was planning on doing a roundup of hosting companies, but I still haven’t settled on one.  I have two options, one of which says they allow signups again but apparently they do not.  I signed up for the other, but they have issues with connecting my domain name to their services.

I’ll revisit this topic another time, but for now I have website brewing over at spiral.l4rge.com.  It will become spiralofhope.com when the wrinkles get ironed out.

CMS

The l4rge.com subdomain is running my new CMS.  I overhauled it twice since my past mention of it, and it works perfectly for all my test cases.  There’s nothing interesting to see right now, but I’ll make the CMS self-hosting when I have a moment.

I had big dreams for automatic-updating while editing, using CurlFtpFS, but while it worked it was awkward slow and error-prone.  I decided to keep things simple and use LFTP mirroring.  It’ll be easy for me to get automatic updating working via LFTP, and I’ll visit that topic later.