I’m not gonna lie: I find it hard to sometimes work on the stuff I want rather than on the stuff I need. Between work, school and personal life, the personal projects I’m often really excited about just fall by the wayside. Setting up this website was one of them in fact – I bought the domain a full year before I got down to it (admittedly during vacation when I had nothing else to do). In part because I was busy, but also in part because I kept looking for the best static website generator instead of just going with one of them.
Thinking about how I could improve, I came up with this idea I’m calling Daytrips. It’s nothing more than a commitment mechanism: no matter what comes my way, I will dedicate at least one full day of every weekend to doing whatever it is I want to work on.
This site, reading a paper, studying some theoretical concept, getting started with a new programming language, editing pictures from my past trips, working on some other project… The point is getting it out there somehow, no matter how crudely. Each Daytrip should end up with a post or a project page. Daytrips can and should of course build on top of each other since I don’t want to limit myself to whatever I can do in 16 hours or less.
During the couple of weeks I have left for my current school vacation (and indeed to my future vacations as well) I’ll aim for more than once a week, but the important thing is it’ll always be at least once a week.
I’m excited for how this thing will end up. It’ll be a fun one :)