February Retrospective

I forgot yesterday was the last day of February.

My goals at the beginning of the month were:

I’d like to have more high quality posts. I would be okay with a few “bye” days, but hopefully I can promote some mid-tier days to high-tier. If I resign from doing daily posts, I will eliminate the throwaway days.

I had many less throw away days, and I had some decently in-depth posts.

I’d like to have at least 2 new public-worthy videos. Ultimately, I’d like to grow an audience on YouTube, so I’d like to keep the content on that channel above the threshold for daily posts.

I didn’t post any public videos. I did post an unlisted video.

I’ll spend some time in the morning thinking of what I can finish by the end of the day. Many days this month, it would be 10pm and I wouldn’t have anything to share. I’m not sure about differentiating days, yet.

Most days, I would think of an idea long before 10pm. I also started working ahead which gave me time to delve into longer posts, like Compression and Pseudorandom.

I’d like to bring one of my long-term projects to completion and post about the steps I’m taking to finish it.

I have spent a lot of time working on rebuilding my website, which is kind of finishing a long-term project. I didn’t complete it, so I think this is a failure. Same with the calendar maker; I worked on it but didn’t finish. I did make Vortex pretty quickly though.

I’d like to show my Vigenère cipher cracker I made a long time ago. I’d also like to check what other old code I have that might be interesting. This is mostly reducing regret; it would be sad if my old work died with me, even if it isn’t groundbreaking.

A few posts were showcasing code I had written a long time ago: SoundCloud Likes, Livestreams, Shortner.

I’ll make some categories on Patreon.

No excuse really. It wouldn’t take long, but I also recognize it’s not going to get any use right now.