Hi, all, Very long story very short: a combination of severe RSI-related problems have forced me to give up my finger-intensive hobbies of programming, writing technical documentation, and playing the guitar. It's still my hope that i will be physically capable of continuing, long-term, to work on software at my day job, but if my hands are to stay reasonably functional then all "extraneous" use of them has to be avoided. While i could write a book about what that means to/for me, that would rather go against the idea of physically sparing my hands, so i'll summarize it as "well, that sucks."
Why not simply cut down to occasional 1-hour hacking/writing sessions? As with any labor of love, one does not simply work at it for an hour per evening, but rather one gets lost in the task for hours upon hours and comes out (or gets dragged out, kicking and screaming) with little sense of how much time has passed. Doing so for more than two decades has taken its physical toll and, as the saying goes, "the spirit is wiling but the flesh is weak." So... here's me officially stepping down from free-time software development and involvement in open source software. Certainly there will continue to be tiny hacks now and again, but, for the sake of keeping my hands halfway functional, i can't allow myself to return to it in a capacity even remotely approaching the way i've always loved. (If any of you catches me trying to then please, for my own good, slap my hands!) My continued respect and appreciation go out to all of you who have helped me, in one way or another, to work on software over the years. To you i wish Happy Hacking! -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf _______________________________________________ fossil-dev mailing list fossil-dev@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-dev
