Older blog entries for Darin (starting at number 1)

Geez! Making a good interface for getting at this data in an async. way is tough! Not the kind of thing I thought would be challenging, but it's slow going.

I always thought, back when I was programming mostly for Macintosh, that if only I worked on a machine with real task scheduling, I'd never have to deal with a "completion routine" again. But these callbacks in GNOME VFS are basically the same thing.

I checked out the Lord of the Rings trailer. Pretty cool. But it won't be in theaters until December 2001. To put that in perspective, my daughter will be almost 2 years old (22 months) by then! I think that means she'll be talking? Yowza!

I'm thinking about posting a little something about "Preferences" vs. "Settings", a little musing about user interface. I think people would like it, but it's hard to find the time. I guess I'll get around to it eventually.

It's funny to actually have a place to put a (mostly programming) diary. It's nothing compared to my wife's journal.

I made what I call a "programer's typo" today, typing "pointer" in IRC when I meant "point". I think you should get some kind of hacker merit badge when you make enough of those mistakes.

As usual, I spent most of the day on Nautilus today. I'm working to make the metadata reading asynchronous, which is funny, since others have proposed moving the metadata code entirely out of Nautilus into GNOME VFS.

This morning, I did a lot of tweaking of our Bugzilla and of other Eazel web pages.

For me, one fun part of Advogato is the business of certifying yourself. I don't care if it has any effect at all. I certified myself as a Master because I am definitely responsible for Nautilus, which we expect to be a major free software program. But it's still in the future, so I feel a tiny bit of "impostor syndrome".

No one I know has noticed me here except Maciej, so I don't have any other certifications.

So far, the people that know me have certified me Master. The people who don't know me -- well I guess they're just judging from my web pages.