"But isn't that what you do in your day job?" one may ask. Well, yes, I work in software engineering, but as a manager of people. Mind you, it's a technical management position, unlike what a lot of companies do when they hire people to "supervise" almost entirely in an HR capacity. So yes, my team ships stuff all of the time, but I'm not writing the code. When I ship, it's my open source stuff.
I've said before that I try to ship POP Forums at least once a year, typically at or around the latest release of .Net, which is Microsoft's open source platform/tools later in the year. This is another year where what I'm shipping is not big on user-facing stuff, but v21 is not without bug fixes and a lot of refactoring in the background. It also updates to all of the latest libraries that it depends on, in order to prevent the "rot" that I wrote about a few weeks ago.
Meanwhile, I added "dark mode" to my personal music cloud service, which is the thing where if you have your phone or computer set to render stuff with black backgrounds instead of white. This sounds trivial, probably, but I use it every single day, typically when sitting in bed at the end of the day. I don't need to light up the room and waking up Diana when choosing tunes. How important is this app to me? Well, since I wrote it in late 2020, with my family, we've listened to 70,000 tracks. That's no joke. I've never done a formal release with that app, because there are some little things that are wonky here and there. Maybe eventually.
Shipping stuff is satisfying.
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