When you’re three months into that side project you said would take a weekend.
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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. 🙃
@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. 😄
@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?
@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. 😅

@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.
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@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.
@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
@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. 🙂
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@mergesort @redpandaclub Nice! I shipped when I realised that I had reached mvp and kept waiting to implement “just one last feature”
@mergesort @dgar I think @NarrelleMHarris might relate to this.

@timrichards @mergesort @dgar

Stop revealing all my secrets to the Mastodon community!

@mergesort

You best get out of my house.

@JenWojcik Should have never invited me in. 😇
@mergesort this is me today trying to install a pendant, then discovering that the socket is busted and having to abort the whole process
@mergesort Year 7 of my "One year and done" project over here
@mergesort any reference to the Russia invasion is purely coincidental..? 😁
@mergesort That should be on the Russian flag.
@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.
@mergesort Often it's more effort 😁
@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.
@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.
@mergesort when you are 10 months in a project you thought it would take 3 days

@mergesort "Ray tracing in one weekend"

I am still doing it after years

@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. 🤦‍♂️
@mergesort i never thought to be able to relate to a flag

@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.

@mergesort This largely explains the last decade of my career.
@mergesort pretty much my thought process behind so many unfinished side projects 😂