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January was supposed to be Month of Tidying, but it really didn’t work out that way. I couldn’t get motivated, and I spent my time on other projects instead. But I want to keep my flow of projects moving, so instead of putting everything else off month after month till I can motivate myself to spend all my time on housekeeping, I’m going to give the tidying project background status. I’ll just try to do a little each day, or whenever I can get to it. Marie Kondo says not to do it that way, but tidying is apparently not giving me enough joy to focus on it now.<\/p>\n
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January has actually been Month of the Semantic Web. This falls under my conceptual modeling project. And Prot\u00e9g\u00e9<\/a>, the software I’m learning for making Semantic Web models (called ontologies), covers a lot of the features I was imagining for a modeling tool I was thinking of creating. So instead of writing one from scratch, I can focus on the features I’d like to add in the form of plugins.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n February will be Month of Software Development. My goals at this point are to summarize the software development reading I’ve been doing and maybe finish version 1 of my coding project generator. I might run out of time and need to put off the generator.<\/p>\n Conveniently, at work we’re starting to look at how we can adopt some of these development practices. So my personal and work projects will be aligned for a while.<\/p>\n To help us kick off the work project we’ll be using to test these methods, I’m reading another book in my software development list, User Story Mapping<\/em>. It also turns out to apply to my conceptual modeling project, and it has a lot of overlap with the insights I was gaining last year about shaping a model through free-form internal and interpersonal dialogue.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n I finished the last book of the the Mortal Engines Quartet, A Darkling Plain<\/em>. Things that stood out to me about this series, which I loved:<\/p>\n After that I had a little audiobook crisis where I didn’t know what to listen to next. I settled on one of my old Audible purchases, Will Save the Galaxy for Food<\/em> by Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw. I discovered him long ago when he was a popular adventure game creator. Then he became a popular video game critic, and now I guess he’s a popular novelist. He has the type of cynical wit I’m used to from other British authors like Terry Pratchett and Charles Stross. I guess I’d consider the book light satire. It wasn’t as much a biting commentary on society as it was a parody of various kinds of people combined with an earnest point about life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Christmas gift labels \ud83e\udd14 I’ve done enough of a retrospective to call this project done. The good: It turned out really well. My family liked the cards and stories, and they were curious and asked me questions about the project. … Continue reading Programming<\/h2>\n
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