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I love hav­ing brain­storms. But at the same time — I hate hav­ing them. Given I spend most of my wak­ing hours work­ing, or think­ing about work — most of my ideas are work related, and not very shareable.

But I’m hav­ing one of those brain­storms where it feels like my brain is try­ing to pass a truck. I’ve been hack­ing on some sim­ple code the last few days try­ing to push out a few tests, when all of a sud­den, I’m sit­ting there clean­ing the lit­ter box at home of all things, when another piece of the chain hits me.

Noth­ing to ter­ri­bly ground­break­ing — I’m sure a more expe­ri­enced pro­gram­mer would not have only dropped a few hun­dred lines of notes into his text edi­tor. He would have also had a work­ing pro­to­type — some­thing I could do given a few days, but all I really get is an hour or so here and there.

I’ll get to hack on it soon enough. Until then, I’ll be scrap­ing the cat box even more.

I love hav­ing brain­storms. But at the same time — I hate hav­ing them. Given I spend most of my wak­ing hours work­ing, or think­ing about work — most of...