Kenton Scott
Joe Fabisevich 
When you’re three months into that side project you said would take a weekend.
Welp, this is getting boosted into the stratosphere. (A term I’m making up for when something goes viral on Mastodon.) If you like these great posts and enjoy red pandas I recommend you follow @redpandaclub where I post about my upcoming indie app Plinky, and share pictures of red pandas. https://plinky.app.
David A. Pirata Informático 
@mergesort @redpandaclub my cable pull this evening
Dr. Jorge Caballero@mergesort @SwiftOnSecurity I feel attacked /s
@DataDrivenMD @SwiftOnSecurity So do I, by my weekend side project.
dryad@mergesort Evergreen :)
Tyler Hillsman@mergesort It, as they say, me.
Geoff with an irish last name@mergesort
oh crap.
Does this mean I still have another two months to go on this thingy I thought would only take a few days at the end of November to knock out?
oof.
@artburn Assuming you finish on time, which is a big assumption for any side project. 🙃
Benjamin Hall@mergesort Ugh! Too true!
@rippersspot Have any interesting weekend side projects you’ve been working on for months now?
@mergesort A nightcrawler article for comicon.com is still waiting to be finished.
Also need to at some point finish up a book version of my old college thesis on Marvel’s phase 1 movies.
@rippersspot Oh dang, that’s neat! And good luck with the thesis. 😄
John Francis@mergesort how hard could it be to put up a flagpole for that?
@johnefrancis The hardest part was deciding what color the flag pole should be, amirite?
AirBeagle—Steve@mergesort I demolished our bathtub today, ready to install the new one. Ran smack up against complicated old plumbing. I can SO relate. Thanks!
@AirBeagle Sorry to call you out like that Steve.
@mergesort No, no, 's'okay. I need to own this one. 😅
ntakayama@mergesort red flag alert
Megan Justice@mergesort sounds about right.
What's your side project?
@meganajustice Right now I’ve been smart enough to not spin up a new side project while working on Plinky (https://plinky.app), but the last thing I built was a red panda API to use for various @redpandaclub purposes. 😂 (https://image.redpanda.club/random and https://image.redpanda.club/json if you need.) That one truly only took a weekend.
Schroedingercat@mergesort I feel this in
my bones
my bones
Roadskater, Ph.D.@mergesort Twenty years later, I may be regretting telling a group at my office that I'd be happy to figure what was wrong with their code. OTOH, it's often been more interesting than my "real" job.
Jesús Nieto@mergesort
The best way I know to estimate duration of an IT project: think how much it would take (a weekend= 2 days); double it (4 days); change to superior unit (4 weeks). 😇👍
#projectManagement #IT #heuristics
The best way I know to estimate duration of an IT project: think how much it would take (a weekend= 2 days); double it (4 days); change to superior unit (4 weeks). 😇👍
#projectManagement #IT #heuristics
Sean Corbett@mergesort OH HI ITS ME
@sccode_um HI 🙋🏻♂️
Iain McLaren@mergesort This! Although I finally shipped my side project and now don’t know what to do with myself.
@imclaren Oh hey, congrats on shipping! What’dja make?
@mergesort Thanks! Enterprise file sync server / client / ios app. I tested and tested and finally shipped at the quietest time of the year. Hope it works …
@mergesort What’s your eta?
@imclaren I haven't set a hard date but I estimate that I'll be done building Plinky (https://plinky.app). This isn't a side project though, it started off as one but I decided to go indie full time and create @redpandaclub to build playful personal productivity apps that help people be the better versions of themselves they want to be. 🙂
@mergesort @redpandaclub Nice! I shipped when I realised that I had reached mvp and kept waiting to implement “just one last feature”
Tim Richards
Narrelle M. HarrisStop revealing all my secrets to the Mastodon community!
TheJenYou best get out of my house.
@JenWojcik Should have never invited me in. 😇
Avocado Toast@mergesort this is me today trying to install a pendant, then discovering that the socket is busted and having to abort the whole process
Nyek London@mergesort Year 7 of my "One year and done" project over here
Sinclair@mergesort any reference to the Russia invasion is purely coincidental..? 😁
Gregnee@mergesort That should be on the Russian flag.
Tushar Chauhan@mergesort This is how my emacs config began many, many weekends ago.
@mergesort
Thanks, I needed that…working to get my affiliate marketing website up and running.
Thanks, I needed that…working to get my affiliate marketing website up and running.
Robert@mergesort Often it's more effort 😁
Norm Tovey-Walsh@mergesort “That side project”? Like there’s only one?
@ndw It’s called exercising restraint. 😇
@mergesort Dang it. I knew I was doing something wrong. Oh well, too late now.
writeblankspace 🌒@mergesort Me everytime I start a new coding project or make a new Ableton Live set or start an idea for a novel.
@mergesort I want to boost this 13,000 times. This is too true.
Agonio@mergesort when you are 10 months in a project you thought it would take 3 days
Lesley Lai@mergesort "Ray tracing in one weekend"
I am still doing it after years
Joel Dinis@mergesort This is so true. Changing the PMS and POS in my hotel is not was easy or straight forward as I initially thought when I insisted Jan is the right way to do it because it is que quietest month of the year and proposed I would do it all when everyone complained how busy they are. 🤦♂️
ANDO 
@mergesort i never thought to be able to relate to a flag
MoreFrances@mergesort such a mood!
Jeff ♨️ Darcy@mergesort Version from my last job:
We do this not because it is easy, but because we expect to collect our reward and leave for another team before the difficulty becomes apparent.
Dave Hone@mergesort This largely explains the last decade of my career.
Sasikanth@mergesort pretty much my thought process behind so many unfinished side projects 😂
John S. Wilkins@mergesort I am not alone!
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