Earlier this year, I lamented the state of “workspaces” in Chrome. I said that I’d settled on using Tabs Outliner, but that I basically didn’t like it. The author of the plugin asked me to elaborate, and I said I would. It has been sitting in my todo list for months and I have felt bad about that. Today, Gregory Meyers commented on that blog post, and it’s gotten me motivated enough to want to elaborate.

I’ve been slowly switching all my code projects to use GitHub’s bug tracking (GitHub Issues) in addition to their code hosting. So far I’m pretty happy with it. It’s not perfect, but it’s good enough. It’s got a tagging system so that you can categorize your issues according to whatever set of tags you want. The tags are called labels.

I’ve finally finished (for now, anyway) another hunk of code in my ever-growing suite of half-baked productivity tools. I’m tentatively calling the whole mess “Ywar”, and would paste the dictionary entry here, but all it says is “obsolete form of ‘aware’”. So, there you go. I may change that later. Anyway, a rose by any other name, or something, right?

It’s been over six months since my last bit of progress on The Great Infocom Replay, but I have not given up. In fact, I’ve put “make progress on the Replay” into my daily practice, so maybe I’ll keep making progress from here on out.

More than a few times, when I’ve told people that I play an older version of D&D, I’ve gotten a slightly horrified look and the question, “Is that the one with THAC0?” What’s so awful about THAC0? I ask, but the answers are vague. “It doesn’t make any sense! It’s bizarre!”

Just about two months ago, I posted about my revived “work through some tickets in each queue then rotate” strategy. When I had first tried to do it, I hadn’t had enough discipline, and it failed. After a month, it seemed to be going very well, because of two minor changes:

There’s a stupid program I rewrite every few months. It goes like this:

It is amazing how bad Yahoo!’s “family account” experience is. I want to make an account for my six year old daughter to use to upload her photos to Flickr. Googling for Yahoo! family accounts and flickr finds this text:

I’ve got nearly every goal on my big board lit up. So, now I’m getting into a routine of getting all the regular things done. Next up, I’m going to try to get better at doing the one-off tasks I have to do, like file my expenses, arrange a piano tuning, and that sort of thing. For this, I’m going to try using Remember the Milk. I’ve used it in the past and liked it fine, but I didn’t stick with it. I think that if I integrate it into my new routine, it’ll work.

Warning: This is sort of rambling.