Buried in the Code
I have been programing since I was about 14 years old. I used to have an ATARI with a huge and incredibly loud 5.5" floppy drive! I would sit at a junky TV monitor screen typing lines and lines of code from some goofy book. When I was done I would run my little program it would beep and hiss the sounds of a very strange sounding electronic train or show a very awkward walking robot on the screen. Hours of my life that remain lost.
As I grew up the languages changed from DOS to HTML, Visual Basic, C++, Javascript, or Python but the thing that remained the same year over year, project after project was the time. Gobs and gobs of my precious time on earth were being sucked away. Was it any good for me? The things I made would get me jobs, or accolades from my bosses and classmates. I became very logical and picked up on patterns more easily, and now that I am thinking about it, it probably did add some different dimensions to how I think. All in all though, it really was a time cancer that spread through a string of hours, into days, into weeks of my life at a time.
While I like to program once in a while, I do it sparingly now - spending insane amounts of time staring at a screen is the opposite of what I want to do with my time! [see Philosophy]
I do like to write scripts or apps that can actually SAVE me time though. Mostly this means writing programs in a very simple language, like Apple Script, to automate repetitious and/or tedious tasks. When I realized how much other people could benefit from this type of thing I was doing for myself, I decided that I would start accepting requests for scripts and post them on my site.
buriedinthecode / blog / requests
As I grew up the languages changed from DOS to HTML, Visual Basic, C++, Javascript, or Python but the thing that remained the same year over year, project after project was the time. Gobs and gobs of my precious time on earth were being sucked away. Was it any good for me? The things I made would get me jobs, or accolades from my bosses and classmates. I became very logical and picked up on patterns more easily, and now that I am thinking about it, it probably did add some different dimensions to how I think. All in all though, it really was a time cancer that spread through a string of hours, into days, into weeks of my life at a time.
While I like to program once in a while, I do it sparingly now - spending insane amounts of time staring at a screen is the opposite of what I want to do with my time! [see Philosophy]
I do like to write scripts or apps that can actually SAVE me time though. Mostly this means writing programs in a very simple language, like Apple Script, to automate repetitious and/or tedious tasks. When I realized how much other people could benefit from this type of thing I was doing for myself, I decided that I would start accepting requests for scripts and post them on my site.
buriedinthecode / blog / requests
