I’ve been working on a small personal project for a few days now, and I thought I’d start sharing my progress, just to talk about how I work through things. A bit of rubber duck programming for me, a little bit of content for you (uh, and for me). “Bookmark Decay” The working title of a little project I’ve thought about on and off for a couple years. The basic idea is a list of bookmarks that “decay” (IE, disappear) after a certain amount of time.

I have a friend who talks about programming making you feel alternately like a genius and an idiot, and every developer I’ve mentioned this to since laughs and agrees. Years ago he sent me this picture to illustrate his point: We've all been here. Over and over. I think about this a lot when I’m wrestling with a problem, whether it’s a new concept, bug in my code, or whatever. It’s actually a salve to my wounds, because it reminds me that whatever issues I’m having today will probably be gone tomorrow - or even maybe in the next hour.