My poor little project

Poor PandoraFM.

I left it in a near-death state for the past couple weeks.  I didn’t know what was wrong with it, and I wasn’t finding the time needed to really dig into it until last night where I figured it out and fixed it.  But damn.  That was really douchey of me.

Admittedly, it’s run pretty flawlessly for years now.  I just set it and forget it.  But something happened on Last.FM’s side and I had to make a small adjustment.

Again I find myself wishing I could hand off the project to someone who wants to put time and energy into the next generation of it.  A lot of people still use it (almost 4,000 tracks were queued up during this downtime), so it’s still worthwhile… people rely on it.  It’s just not something that’s a priority for me anymore, and it deserves to be.

I do miss all the effort I put into it back when it was in development.  I’d hide in my room for hours every day working on the new version.  Spending even more time on top of that talking to users and getting feedback and beta reports.  I was a real developer one time.

Maybe some day i’ll be passionate about something again like that, but it won’t be PandoraFM.  I see that project really “as good as it’ll get” as far as the feature set.  In fact, it probably has more features than anyone really needs… but that’s what happens when one makes choices for the many :)

Almost time to take off for lunch.  Cassie is picking me up.  Then I have the remainder of today, all of tomorrow… and then i’m off for a week.  I’m catching a flight from Omaha to Madison on Monday, and then driving with my parents from Madison to the UP of Michigan.  Argh.  Why can’t I be from somewhere more rad than the UP?

And yes.  Still no meat.
Keep on rockin.

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