JeffPelton.com
I've finally managed to clean a few things up around here. I've finished most of what I needed to get photos on the site! Using asynchronous callbacks to do everything from uploading a file, reading it's meta data, writing it to the database, adding other info like location data and it's own map image, to slicing thumbnails and keeping everything up to date and in the feed. Whew. I think most of it is lined up right.
I'm finally committing myself to build out the site to make it everything I want it to be for the first time since I set out to this goal some six years ago. That was before I taught myself how to build web applications or that web development was even a real job.
I know the scope of my project is outrageous, but I hope that an open source strategy can make it possible, and maybe even help others solve the same problem as me.
Now I'm going to organize my thoughts and projects so that they are suitable to be open source. But in doing so I constantly feel a nagging for "simplicity" and "focus" in the echo's of "minimum viable products" and "lean" startups. I understand that concise mission statements and tight feedback loops are a good way to progress your startup quicker.
What I'm reminding myself is that this isn't my startup, but my dream. I have lots of business ideas that involve technology and websites, but this is different. Here and now, I'm setting out to solve the problems which plague me!
I didn't learn to program to write the most efficient or beautiful code. I learned to program machines so that I could interact with technology in a way that is beautiful and such that the machine begs to do my bidding, instead of the other way around. From a young age I've felt that computers ability, and our ability to use them has been unmatched. We don't know how to harness the power of what's right in front of us, and often it doesn't serve us well, or worse, we end up serving it.
I guess it's time to go back and watch some more Doug Engelbart and Alan Kay for inspiration. Although, I'm optimistic about the web today more than ever. So, I'm going to dream big and see what I can come up with!
I'm finally committing myself to build out the site to make it everything I want it to be for the first time since I set out to this goal some six years ago. That was before I taught myself how to build web applications or that web development was even a real job.
I know the scope of my project is outrageous, but I hope that an open source strategy can make it possible, and maybe even help others solve the same problem as me.
Now I'm going to organize my thoughts and projects so that they are suitable to be open source. But in doing so I constantly feel a nagging for "simplicity" and "focus" in the echo's of "minimum viable products" and "lean" startups. I understand that concise mission statements and tight feedback loops are a good way to progress your startup quicker.
What I'm reminding myself is that this isn't my startup, but my dream. I have lots of business ideas that involve technology and websites, but this is different. Here and now, I'm setting out to solve the problems which plague me!
I didn't learn to program to write the most efficient or beautiful code. I learned to program machines so that I could interact with technology in a way that is beautiful and such that the machine begs to do my bidding, instead of the other way around. From a young age I've felt that computers ability, and our ability to use them has been unmatched. We don't know how to harness the power of what's right in front of us, and often it doesn't serve us well, or worse, we end up serving it.
I guess it's time to go back and watch some more Doug Engelbart and Alan Kay for inspiration. Although, I'm optimistic about the web today more than ever. So, I'm going to dream big and see what I can come up with!