the boring bits
Two weeks ago, I was making some plugins for Bear Blog. I'd spend a couple hours and make a little thing that solves an immediate problem and makes my life just a teensy bit better.
It was rewarding, it was fun, and it was immediate.
Tonight I worked on a much longer term project, much more complex. Software that adds User Login to a website. I worked on adding a form to the Terms & Conditions page so that you can Agree to terms or Revoke agreement.
Exciting stuff, right? I didn't finish this task, an I won't use this in production for months, at the very best. It could be years thanks to my poor mental health.
And it is one task among many just to complete the User Login software, which on it's own is utterly useless. It is a piece of a much longer-term project that I hope to return to one day.
It is SO much harder to motivate for these kinds of things. Where the reward is far FAR off, where the actual labor is fairly tedious.