Looking for motivation

Right, I need a new journal/blog like I need a third pair of eyes (…on second thought, a third pair of eyes probably isn’t a bad idea), and I’m not “switching” (my permanent account at LiveJournal is doing very well), but skimming through the Dreamwidth newsletter is somewhat inspiring, and it’s making me feel nostalgic.

Take this gem:

This week gave us 45 resolved bugs (mark and fu were rocking the review queue), which are described in this week’s code tour by sporky_rat.

So, I realize that not everyone will read that and think coding and resolving 45 bugs in a week is “fun” and “glamorous”. However, it reminds me of the days when I was working on Enthusiast and my other scripts, of working on my couple dozen websites. It was fulfilling and fun to set out to do something and have it done quickly.

Now, where to find the motivation to look at PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript after a day’s work on the same thing? Or even to go back to web design? That’s what I’d like to know.

This Geek chick post was published on Tuesday April 27, 2010, and tagged under , .

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Hello, I'm Angela. I cycle through a bunch of obsessions: web, reading, writing, gaming, and traveling. I've been making websites since 1997 before turning it into a profession in 2004. You might know me from Scripts.Indisguise.Org where I used to dabble a little with linkware toys, or Yahoo! Southeast Asia, but nowadays I'm the technical lead for HungryGoWhere where I am always hungry, since I end up looking at food all day. I love meeting interesting people and have excellent conversation, so leave me a comment or find me on any of the places below:

6 comments

  • Vix said:
    June 11, 2010 17:41

    I’ve been in a similar funk for a year. o_O I have these ideas but no motivation to do them.

  • Drea said:
    May 22, 2010 15:24

    I’m in the same kind of flux, I used to love doing things like web-design, and still do, but I can’t find the motivation half of the time to actually get anything done. I think it’s the weather, or the season, or just the general feeling of the population as of late because it seems to be affecting a lot of my friends.

    That being said, why not work on something casually, something that won’t be dire to you, and you won’t feel pressured to actually update more than you feel necessary for casual enjoyment? Some little side project– it might end up being something you want to work on every day and all that in the end, like you used to be with Enthusiast (still an amazing script, by the by.)

  • Euri said:
    April 29, 2010 17:33

    How about watch lots of animes instead. =D

    Oh, and Dreamwidth looks so much like Livejournal. xD

    • Angela replied;
      April 29, 2010 21:29

      Dreamwidth’s base is off from Livejournal code :) So theoretically you can say they’re a clone, but they’re doing a good number of changes on how things work as far as I’ve seen, I believe a whole lot more than other eljay clones out there. I could be wrong, of course.

      And mmm, anime.

  • jojo siao said:
    April 27, 2010 22:43

    what do you want to do on your free time? or do you hate to be in front of your pc again after work?

    • Angela replied;
      April 29, 2010 21:27

      Oh, it’s not that I don’t want to be in front of my machine after work. I just fluctuate between not wanting to THINK about how to implement things and not wanting to be in front of (presentation layer) code, period. :/

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