njr 3.0

The first few bits of the Pester hiptop port are emerging…



I'll wait for dre, the resource editor, to be released before I go any further with the UI—either manually constructing UI or trying to reverse-engineer the resource compiler's file format (not really Rez-like, but quite decent) is a waste of time when I could be working on something else. Thanks in particular to one Danger employee for going above and beyond to help me through this period. So far, it's a lot like the early days of Cocoa on OS X, except with even less documentation: there's good design underneath there, enough to make me put up with programming in Java. Not that I expected any less given the outstanding quality of the hiptop for a 1.0 product.

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I've got loads of stuff to talk about, and really want to do a long weblog entry, but can't find the time. So, here's a brief summary of recent events.

Flew into Boston on Thursday; spent the rest of the day sleeping and recuperating. Booked my flight to Norway for July; myself and about 10 friends are going to visit a former UI graduate student and officemate of mine, on an approximately two-week tour of the country (I can't wait). Slept in on Friday, did a couple hours of work, then drove up to New Hampshire.

Spent yesterday morning and this morning skiing with my parents. My mom is finally making progress with her skiing: it's been 10 years, but very much worth the wait. My father's learning telemark and is getting to the point where he can do tele turns on reasonably steep slopes. He went to Alta while at a conference a few weeks ago: I'm quite jealous.

Went to the gym Saturday night; swam for the first time in years. I had to stop after three lengths: ouch. Hard to believe I used to swim a mile on a regular basis. On the bright side, I weighed myself and found out I lost 15 pounds so far this year, almost reversing last year's 20-pound gain.

This afternoon we bought a stained glass window in Rumney and checked in on our partially-finished barn in Henniker. The driveway is still covered with snow.

Back in Cambridge now, doing some research work. Wondering whether to go to see Dave Winer on Thursday night. More tomorrow if time permits.

6:16 PM | Radio
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Ulaanbataar is an in-development hiptop RSS newsreader. Screenshots only at this point.

5:58 PM | Radio
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Dave Hyatt writes about specialization. I've always had a hard time with this, as the subtitle of this blog should indicate at least. In fact I think I've reached a breaking point—I'm finding it next to impossible to find time to work enough on that which isn't optional. And there are things I used to do but don't do enough any more (cooking, music) which I really enjoy.

Over the next week I'll be reevaluating my priorities and dumping a lot of stuff. This will almost certainly involve scaling back my free time programming efforts, IRCing, mailing list and Usenet subscriptions, involvement in projects like Metakit and Subversion, and perhaps some of my blogging and Web work. Doing less independent software work will be easier now: my research is really starting to keep me awake at night with my mind full of possibilities—exactly what I need to be incredibly productive at it.

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If you're planning on upgrading your desktop Power Mac G4's memory any time soon, heed this warning. The price difference between working and non-working 512 MB DIMMs is about $20 each. I bought two of the latter last week; they aren't even heavy enough to use as paperweights.

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