Prototype wrapup 9

This is going to be a fairly short one. Things were looking fairly good last week, so I committed to do keep making a prototype every day. For reasons mostly related to my failure earlier in the week, I didn't end up doing that many. And by not many, I mean one.

Monday

I've always been a big fan of Literate Coffeescript. It's a lot more lightweight than Knuth's original, just a kind of Markdown where the code blocks are run as actual code. For a long time, I've had a dream of being able to use this style with languages other than Coffeescript, so I started writing a proof of concept in Javascript.

I'm not going to dwell exceptionally much on having fallen so far short of my commitment; this is still a fairly fragile and underdeveloped habit, and near as I can tell the main lesson here is "new habits get stomped when a lot of other things go wrong". If it becomes a recurring problem I'll take another look, but for now I'm just going to concentrate on keeping everything else in order and building the habit up. That means I'm making the same commitment again.

In positive news, I did actually fulfill my commitment to finish this post early. I think that if I can maintain that habit, it'll ease a lot of pressure when things go south, including on my prototypes. Until next week!