Wheneverly

As I alluded to in my last entry, I tend to become fairly worthless if I miss self-imposed deadlines, even when they’re for things that really never needed to be on a deadline. Sometimes I can get around it by using the concept of “updated wheneverly.” On the bright side, I function pretty well in that setup. A significant problem, though, is that I end up with a lot of projects, all updated wheneverly.

In no particular order, here’s some of them:

Funcrusherpl.us – I overreached on this one initially and kind of got stung by a shitload of work. I got some good encouragement to get back into this by Ander Other, and it’s kind of fun to follow along with the release cycle.

bluesoul.me – Hey, I just launched this one! IT articles posted wheneverly. Sometimes the inspiration hits at work and off you go.

imissgrantland.com – This is one of the smoother launches I’ve ever had. Totally automated service that lots of people are enjoying. Those are ideal for me, people keep enjoying it and I don’t have to do a damn thing. Damn shame that Kimono is gone.

iskbook.com – This did technically work, but it needed a little more automation, and more sports offered. This was, for the uninitiated, a sports betting site playable only with the in-game currency of EVE Online. A related site that I wanted to get going, papersportsbook.com, is a betting site where you bet play money and see how well you do.

ogregamelabs.com – Great idea at the time. Unfortunately it takes way more free time than I actually have to do it in the way I envisioned.

statsonstats.net – This one is going hand-in-hand with a deeper education in statistics, as they can be applied to the NBA. The competition, though, actually went to school for this shit. I think I’m writing it off.

tagpro.me & next.tagpro.me – One of the cooler things I ever built. I’ve got probably 10 pages of post-mortem thoughts. The site was just too pricey to keep going and the code was a bit of a fucked mess. When Tagpro Next comes out, I’ll be looking at the changes to the API and seeing if it’ll make for an easier time with tracking stats, and if so I’ll launch next.tagpro.me on the Laravel framework.

thelegendofmax.net – Can you believe those motherfuckers are still squatting on the .com nine years later? Assholes. I told myself I would retrofit the look and feel of tlom.com to WordPress. At this point in time, it doesn’t serve much of a point. There were a lot of good times, or at least quality distractions, in those 03-04 days. That was the heyday. But I don’t think it would have the same sort of fun carefree thing going, even if that whole crew was still contributing. I don’t know. I’d have to toss it around with them.

@O5_Command – A Mafia bot, written in Perl, that’s used on IRC. I actually did some nice cleanup work on the bot for not really knowing any Perl. But there’s a lot of stuff that needs to be done still in the name of usability for the bot administrator.

@Shaqtus – A python module for a different IRC bot, that scrapes basketball-reference for stats. It’s brittle as all get-out but that happens on free projects that needs scraping.

@Lumberjack – A logging bot for, you guessed it IRC, with a web interface with ACLs per-user, per-channel. This was actually done twice, with two entirely different platforms, and both times it was defaced. Horseshit.

bearpuncherpri.me – shrug.txt

You’ll notice one thing all of those things have in common. They don’t make any money. That’s like eleven different domains and projects, not even counting this one, that don’t provide a penny. I have a couple that could potentially make money.

Ransomware training as a service – The Hidden Tear project was noble but quickly turned for evil. I’m teaching myself Visual C# for this one, and it’s got the best chance of anything I’ve come up with to make some extra money.

Sysadmin Screencasts – I have a big old list of topics to cast, I’d really like to figure out a way to monetize the process as it will likely be very, very time-intensive. Needs more time to think it over.

Papersportsbook.com – Good chance I could get affiliate links to actual sportsbooks and gambling sites. It also seems like potentially the most fun right now.

This post doesn’t serve much of any purpose but to help re-center what I want to do next and fill out my GTD Actions. Sorry about that.