{"id":1264,"date":"2017-11-28T00:31:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T05:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2017-11-28T00:31:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T05:31:04","slug":"i-used-to-have-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/2017\/11\/28\/i-used-to-have-a-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"I used to have a dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actually, not dream<\/strong> – I used to hope<\/strong>. No, not even – I used to wish<\/strong> (as in “wishful thinking”) that one day there would be hundreds of thousands of people using my code.<\/p>\n

Some of my code shipped with Firefox forever ago so technically there are actually millions of people using my code. ISO Master<\/a> and Asunder<\/a> have been in every Linux distribution for over a decade. That’s a lot of people, which I also can’t get a count of.<\/p>\n

But here’s something I can count: access requests for a web application on my own web server. It’s the APNG assembler<\/a>, which I wrote forever and a day ago:<\/p>\n

2007: 562 hits\r\n2008: 11242 hits\r\n2009: 15019 hits\r\n2010: 2083 hits\r\n2011: 2286 hits\r\n2012: 18750 hits\r\n2013: 30402 hits\r\n2014: 41305 hits\r\n2015: 60573 hits\r\n2016: 105883 hits\r\n2017: 56712 hits<\/pre>\n
Yeah, that’s over a hundred thousand animated PNGs created by my dinky little web server last year alone. I guess my wish turned into a dream which turned into reality. Cool.<\/p>\n
And now I’m bored. I can’t make myself learn another programming language – I feel it’s too trivial, uninteresting, and without lasting impact. I can’t think of another worthwhile open source project to start or take over because I know what it takes to make one succeed and I’m just not excited enough about it.<\/p>\n
What’s left then? New challenges. I’ve got to try something I haven’t done before. And that list of things is growing ever shorter. Perhaps I will try to learn to be nice to people. That would be monumental for me :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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