I’ve noticed that programming time tends to squeeze out blogging time. And vice-versa. But I guess eventually I’ll become a more efficient blog writer and it’ll just flow out of my head like the code does. Today was pretty good – making improvements in the layout to hide more advanced features until they are necessary …

Keeping schedules – corporate managers use Microsoft Project. Joel uses Excel spreadsheets. What does a Mac Indie use? I use VoodooPad. It don’t keep track of estimates or hours worked. But I do keep track of the priority of tasks and when they are done. (Hint: Use Control-Command-Delete.) It works well for me as it …

One of the things that is nice about being on your own is that you really don’t have to worry that much about when you blog. Sure, blogging is probably less harmful than smoking and people take smoke breaks during the day, but then again there’s not usually a corporate policy about what cigarettes you …

Today I woke up at around 10:30 – which seems kind of slackerish, except that I went to sleep at around 3:30. I answered a few emails. Answering emails seems to be the sort of thing that people don’t plan for when considering The Life. As John Gruber points out: So the conundrum is this: …

About to get some sleep after working on WebnoteHappy during the day and also my usual night hours. I forgot that today actually wasn’t a vacation day but was actually a federal holiday, President’s Day. So for a holiday I made pretty good progress. I got closer to finishing del.icio.us support and released a new …

Welcome to “The Life“. This week, I’m taking a vacation from my day job and spending it working on WebnoteHappy full-time. I’ve done all the development on WebnoteHappy in my spare time, on weekends, nights, holidays, but never have dedicated a full workday to it until today. I thought it would be interesting to take …

Some people go surfing in Maui on vacation. Or perhaps tour Rome. Or maybe go skiing in the Alps. Me? Next week, I’ll be living “The Life”. Or at least the seeing what The Life would be like. I’ll try to blog a little here and there throughout the week while in the process of …