![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Journalling free software: the return
Jan. 21st, 2012 05:01 pmI originally started my weblog in 1998 to record the Python-related things that I did.
In recent years I've stopped doing free software development for several reasons. Work was taking up all of my mental CPU allocated for programming. Python, my long-time primary project, is now very mature which means that there isn't much room for interesting new features and bugs are often very complicated to understand and fix. I have enough complicated bugs at work, so I'd prefer to work on something more enjoyable.
I'd really like to resume free software work, but it'll have to be on some other project. I poked around in the Django bug tracker, but Django is also a mature project so its bugs are often specialized and ensuring backward compatibility is difficult. Web development work is also overly familiar to me because I've been doing it for so long, so I'd prefer something completely different.
For now I'm poking around ccc-gistemp, a Python translation of a Fortran program that analyzes data to determine a global average temperature. I'll try to record what I do in this journal; publishing my efforts will hopefully encourage me to keep going.
In recent years I've stopped doing free software development for several reasons. Work was taking up all of my mental CPU allocated for programming. Python, my long-time primary project, is now very mature which means that there isn't much room for interesting new features and bugs are often very complicated to understand and fix. I have enough complicated bugs at work, so I'd prefer to work on something more enjoyable.
I'd really like to resume free software work, but it'll have to be on some other project. I poked around in the Django bug tracker, but Django is also a mature project so its bugs are often specialized and ensuring backward compatibility is difficult. Web development work is also overly familiar to me because I've been doing it for so long, so I'd prefer something completely different.
For now I'm poking around ccc-gistemp, a Python translation of a Fortran program that analyzes data to determine a global average temperature. I'll try to record what I do in this journal; publishing my efforts will hopefully encourage me to keep going.
