Ouch my eye!

It’s been a while since I last posted, so I thought I’d give a quick update of where things stand. (TLDR: I’m still here, progress is slow, but it is happening.)

My main focus the past few months has been preparing my house to put on the market, which has occupied a lot of my time. That is coming to an end now, so I’ll start to have more time to blog again soon.

In the meantime I am still working on things and want to get all the backlog of code and file formats cleared out. I have around a dozen or so formats I’ve finished but haven’t written about yet (and I keep adding to that list). Then there’s the code, and getting that suitable for release. All of that is being worked on, but with that number of things, and ADHD, you can imagine progress is slow. Not to mention that writers block is a real struggle right now. Despite starting a number of posts, I haven’t been able to really find the inspiration to get through them. No doubt that having so many open items is just aggravating things leaving me to struggle to focus on the topic at hand.

Another setback has been that recently a Discord group I had discussed some of the formats with as I was working on was deleted, and the log of my progress was lost. As a result the blogs for those formats might end up taking a bit of a different form. They will be less of a journey of discovery, and more of just a detailed summary of what the format is. Though perhaps as I get to writing about them, I’ll be able to recall some of that journey, so we’ll see when I finally get to them.

I do have some good news though. One of the main setbacks for releasing the code has been portability. Specifically portability to Windows. The code would compile fine, and run, but then the programs would just quit, without error or anything. I tracked it back to when I was making memory allocation calls, and the call would simply never return. Still no idea why that was happening, but I think I may have solved it by changing tool-chains (again). If that’s the case, the last major barrier to releasing the code is gone, and I can get back to wrapping up my refactor and cleanup of it all.

For now, that’s all I have. I am currently working on yet another format (thanks ADHD) but am trying to do the write-up as I go, so hopefully I’ll have something to post soon. (Spoiler Alert: It’s looking to be a multi-part adventure, so the first post will be coming sooner than later) Till then, thanks to all of you that have stuck around and keep checking to see if I’ve posted anything new.