Posted on Aug 11, 2024
I’ve been in burnout before, I know the theory; I need projects to get out of it; but everything happens slowly. If I move on with a project, the feeling of accomplishment creates momentum and everything else goes on with it; I wanted to begin a project about personal finance and some C language software components; I did not even start it. But! I did resume developing mbfl and I did expunge some of the tasks from my to–do queue.
About mbfl: ideas were aligning in my last development session, I’m pushing forward from there. I did realise I selected the wrong conventions for some names in the public api; this hurts! I use the very latest in my desktop infrastructure of gnu Bash scripts: errors like these force me to sweep all my code for fixes. Even more disappointing is that I should have known from the start: I already used a better convention in other projects; why did I not reuse it? Because!
I also have some problems with the documentation: if I cannot write organised documentation, it means something is wrong with the design; or I do not have a good understanding of the concepts; or I’m paranoid. With the latest restructuring, it seems progress is possible.
I also have another project as a batch process in the background of my brain. Ha! Ha! Ha!
It’s about an application of well known mathematical concepts; I believe my intuition got the core mathematics right; but I need to refresh some theory I studied a long time ago; it will take patience to confirm if my intuition is right.
One of my historical weaknesses was computing uneasy integrals: I hated it. Now there’s software that numerically integrates almost anything; that’s liberating. I can look at integrand functions and scorn them: “You talking to me? You talking to me?”
I have no use for a full Wolfram Mathematica licence, but I occasionally enjoy playing with WolframAlpha. I will use its integration algorithms to verify the results; then I want to write some C language code.