Midsummer
Tuesday, June 25th, 2002I spent midsummer with my family at Landsort, in the Stockholm archipelago. An awesome place… as usual, Aila took amazing pictures.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t really relax and let go of work. I recently wrote a piece of code not up to my own standards - now I spent many hours cleaning up the code while my family relaxed.
No one told me to do it. But I was angry at myself for not refusing to solve a particular problem with quick-n-dirty hacking. I knew at once that would be counter-productive and said so, but was explicitly ordered to work fast&loose. It was completely unexpected - this is a project with a stated ambition of doing things right (talk to users, discuss design with others, write unit-tests etc). Most of that good stuff hasn’t happened yet, though… so maybe this really is the shape of things to come?
Anyway… I wrote some unit tests and refactored until I had halfway decent code. We’ll see what happens.
Summer goes on… I’ll spend a week at Zengården, work two more weeks and then spend two weeks in a small Spanish village by the sea with Aila. For several reasons, we really need some time for ourselves.