Dealing with all these little side complications of life can be so incredibly overwhelming. Just seeing the list of all the projects I wanted to accomplish. All the little things that get thrown by the wayside. All the derelict pieces of code, bug tracker export files, inaccessible GitHub projects. All these things thrown into the ether.
In one sense it’s good. It shows that I’ve been trying pretty constantly to improve myself, to scratch the itches I have, and to think critically about software. It’s the graveyard. I don’t need everything to be an unmitigated success.
On the other hand, it also fills me with an intense loneliness. All the little project forums that are dead. The domains I don’t own anymore. All that work I did, just kind of gone. And I suppose that’s fine, because even if I did, say, still have the source code to ████████ or whatever lying around, what would I do with it? I probably wouldn’t fix it. It’d just be lying there under glass. And since in my physical life I have this rule about things that don’t serve a purpose, why wouldn’t I extend that to my digital life? Why wouldn’t I get rid of these things, or forget about preserving them?
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