AS a programmer, I love to build my own tools or come up with my own solutions. My hobby has been great for my professional career, but my own ability to complete personal projects in my free time has gone out the window. It seems staying up for days, like I did growing up playing with Flash and Visual Basic, trying to solve one problem doesn’t work as well for a grown adult with bills. Talking to pets can help, but sometimes they just distract me.
In 2012 I was playing EVE Online and watching a TV show. While distracted and expecting my set-up to sort out the rats, some punk with a Cyrillic username sniffed me out, ravaged my capacitor and my Raven was no more. Needless to say, it was time for me to make my own damn MMO called Langenium; it was going to be better than EVE Online… with hookers and blackjack.. ads.
So it’s 2017 now, I’m committed to building a series of games leading up to an MMO release, I have another game about riding a bicycle at night… My cat says my ideas have potential but I really need to come up with realistic goals and deadlines.
Oh yeah, and Evernote pissed me off too so I’m working to replace that. And mine’s not gonna charge you any money or show ads on desktop (although I might be tempted on mobile/web). It’ll just use your own Google Drive as storage and let you do what you want — if you already pay for cloud storage with one company, why should you pay another for the same service with a pretty HTML editor?
All that ranting aside, I also realized I’m long overdue to start putting my thoughts down somewhere… As I looked at my long string of incomplete and yet still interesting and inspiring projects I wanted to complete… I decided to sign up to the first seemingly decent blog platform I could find. After all, it’s time to stop leaking my intellectual property to the cat.