Old projects, they often end in what I call development hell. This odd place where some projects with a good potential become stale after a release or die because too late for a market. Very often personal projects end up there even when they are open source. Open source really seem like a tool to help spreading and sharing knowledge worldwide depending on the kind of project. Before open source democratized with the likes of Github a huge number of personal projects probably took years to be released when not abandoned.
Today I decided to do the only kind of necromancy one should do: Bringing back an old project to life. A project for which I already wrote the code for the model and business logic. I had to make create a user interface and build a user experience as sleek as possible. However, I stopped it due to my vision of a market I thought crowded along with the lack of time. Now I see clearly that was not as true as I thought.
Here we are. Two months I did not post here, eleven months without working on a personal development project I am back at it. I spent my past weekends alternating between gym, party and sleep. Luckily, I work in a position where my brain I can keep my brain stimulated. Indeed, when not investigating an issue on one of our live apps nor working on our platform features I am defining development tools and processes to be used at company scale within the next months. Eventually, a lot of cool things will come out of that. I will definitely post a few related tutorials depending on schedule.
About the blog, I will try to post more regularly than I have maybe a tutorial. In terms of work I would like to share with you the video that we recorded last week. It is basically the new company careers video that I like not just because I am in it. You can definitely check it out below:
If you arrived that far in the post, first I would like to thank you for reading and watching the video. Second, do not abandon your old projects if you are not a 100% sure they are dead. Check your old source code even if it is to mock your old coding style. In the end you could actually have something worth the hassle.
