All projects at a total standstill

[antennapedia]

Can has commentfic or other distracting/cheering/motivating entertainment?
ETA: My new web app framework! Disclaimer: need to be at least this nerdy to laugh.

Comments

[stexgirl2000]

Comment fic as in we suggest a prompt or we comment and give you fic?

[antennapedia]

Write fic in the comments. My brain is non-functional tonight. Argh.

[stexgirl2000]

Okay here's a snippet of something I'm working on

[antennapedia]

I love the detail of how he pays attention while seeming to be distracted. The absent-mindedness is appearance, not reality. Looking forward to the rest! :)

[nutterbudgie]

JK Philips has a new chapter of the Death Brings Clarity epic, this is cheering.

[antennapedia]

Oh! That is cheering.

[nutterbudgie]

OK so I'm laughing at the Cobol :(

[misswitch]

LOL at the Cobol. I think my favorite part is the vague screen burn in the background of the other screens. Ah, brings back memories of high school.

[antennapedia]

It's a brilliant parody in many ways. Full marks.

[quivo]

[LOL] I'd ask the developers how they think their framework will stand up to the new one by Google, but I didn't see a phone number on the site :(

[antennapedia]

Oh, did Google release Javascript on Rails finally? Or whatever they're calling it? Utterly insane idea, but given that a Ruby interpreter written in Javascript is faster than production Ruby, maybe it's not so nuts.

[quivo]

Nah, I meant the Google App Engine. It's all python all the time for now, and is basically all of Amazon's separate web services (including Amazon payments or whatever its called) wrapped up in one big bundle.

*peeks at Ruby on JS* *jots down one more reason NOT to learn Javascript, hoping she is not deceiving herself*

[antennapedia]

That's interesting. It's competition with Amazon web services, not with Ruby/Rails/various scaling services. Interesting startup incubation... and yet another tortilla chip upon which Google can load the salsa of its advertising.

[seldomifever]

Vat's with all the fretting? You are strong. You are smart. You are brave. You can do this. It'll be an awesome adventure. What's the worst thing that could happen? You need to write the book for you, not to get published. Lemme tell you, there are thousands of people who write and don't get into print. Do you know how many great writer have had to use vanity presses? Publishing is a ridiculous business. Just like all businesses. You know this. It cannot be the measure of one's success. Ooh, or skip the book all together and just write fanfic all day. You're already giving pleasure to the masses. You just don't make any money doing it. :)

[antennapedia]

Actually I had programming angst last night :) I decided that no sane person uses Ruby for any serious project, and pitched the fic archive project entirely. And rewrote in Python. Some time tonight I should reach feature parity with the previous version. (For grins, I will compare performance numbers. Whaddya think, Python version 5x faster? Or even more?)

This is serious procrastination on the Remix, btw.

[seldomifever]

Oh. Never mind.