Practicing cooking steak as husband wants some for birthday, so we've got a couple of big chunks of fillet each. Husband is also trying tripple-cooked chips, so looking forward to those.

I forgot to pull my facebook/twitter/everyone else archives off the old machine, so I've applied for them again. I've got a better idea of how I'm going to handle facebook posts than I did before, so might get further.

From what I remember of Facebook's export format, there's a bunch of stuff that's in arrays that there's generally only one of. I'm going to use the MIME email format again,

Next project roundup

A list of potential next projects

Paint

A simple web based image manipulation tool. Operations like crop, rotate, resize. Could easily be client side with canvas doing the heavy lifting.

More about getting the UI right than anything else, although that's probably became I'm assuming that writing and composing manipulation functions is fairly easy.

Facebook import

Now under got a copy of my Facebook data I want to pull it into something that I can play with (at least enough to add to the blog).

An exercise in JSON parsing and data storage. How much of the data do I want/need to keep? What kind of access patterns am I going to have? Am I going to be able to access the data in ten years when I stumble across it again?

Server side Mal

I want to be able to make stupid toys on the site, from my phone. I could do it with HTML/JavaScript, or even C#, but typing those on the phone is irritating. Mal has much simpler syntax, and should be at least as powerful (and much more so if the rumours are true). Also, having the same client and server side scripting languages might be fun.

I did that C# version of Mal before, but I'm not happy with my choices and want to write it again, which is a bit of a job. (I could use mal-js and QuickJS, although I'd need to wrap them in a CGI interface.

Where does that leave me?

It's going to be Mal, I think. The Facebook thing needs a bit more thought (really, I need to convince myself either that SQLite is a sensible way to store data, or that it's worth my time to write a bunch of models for the data, and keep the original Facebook data), and I'm not looking forward to the UI stuff for paint (which, to be fair, is kind of a reason I should do it).

The only real problem with Mal is that, at least for the first but, one done it before and I'm not sure what I'll get out of it. Maybe I should cannibalise the existing mal-sharp code?

More projects that didn't get listed above:

Offline Blog Entries

Since the service worker stuff for the Sleep Tracker works, I should start looking at all the other phone apps that have got backed up in the queue. (See also: Shopping List below). I'd like to think that adding an offline mode to the blog would be easy, but I've got a feeling that I made the entry submission stuff far too complex (although I might be thinking of Chat).

Shopping List

The classic phone app. An opportunity to use Notifications and Push API, and a bunch of other stuff. I dunno. It's the sharing stuff (and I guess the sync stuff, although there are ways to do that).

Slow Movies

Since I've got £60 to spend for my birthday, I could buy the hardware for this and get something up and running. [Pause to check the website] Yup, within my budget

Loaded the ol' codebase into Visual Studio and ran a bunch of clean up on it. Eek. But it seems to be working.

Not a bad weekend as these things go, got done nice programming done, got a bit of sleep in, spent a bit of time with husband, played with some kittens.

Work tomorrow as usual, talking to at least one of the Dave's about the .NET template I wrote list week, maybe bang my head against Vault and local development some more.

Otherwise, next big thing is birthdays. I've booked a week off (and I need to check the dates for that) and I've got a couple of things planned (including: plenty of programming, a trip inland to get out of town, plenty of rest).

Husband has invited some old friends to visit (friends who are our age that we have known for a long time), they'll be camping out in the study over birthday weekend, so there's that. I'm fairly neutral in the whole thing, possibly because I don't really think it's going to happen. I should probably start believing it so I can get used to the idea before it happens.

However. it's late and I should do my teeth and get to bed/sleep. G'd night y'all.