Hi friends, I’ll be attending Babashka Conf on May 8 and Dutch Clojure Days on May 9. If you’re attending either (or just visiting Amsterdam), drop me a line! When I have an idea for a project, it tends to go in one of these two directions: I just do it. Maybe I make a few minor revisions, but often it turns out exactly how I’d imagined and I’m happy. I think, “I should look for prior art”. There’s a lot of prior art, dealing with a much broader scope than I’d originally imagined. I start to wonder if I should incorporate that scope. Or perhaps try to build my thing on top of the existing sorta-nearby-solutions. Or maybe I should just use the popular thing. Although I could do a better job than that thing, if I put a bunch of time into it. But actually, I don’t want to maintain a big popular project, nor do I want to put that much time into this project. Uh oh, now I’ve spent a bunch of time, having neither addressed the original issue nor experienced the joy of creating something.…