I spent these last days building a spreadsheet app for managing resources in a city builder / survival sim (Medieval Dynasty). I’m pretty sure there are plenty of ways to improve it, I know that other people have already built solutions for it that I could have used instead and I know that a much better solution would involve a proper database.

But it was fun, dammit. I need to deal with spreadsheets for work and it was a fun effective way of honing my skills with them.

On Monday, one of our students at $DAYJOB asked me what projects I do in my freetime. After I infodumped on her for half an hour, she asked in disbelief “And you do these in your freetime, without being paid?”.

Like, mate, did you not listen how feckin’ excited I got just then? Of course, I do these in my freetime.

To be fair, though, the last project I told her about is very dry. It’s a library to help automate CI builds. And the thing I’m thrilled to build is a compile-safe API for accessing the packages in your workspaces. Like, yeah, it does take a special kind of nerd to get excited about that…