I know I’ve been out of touch lately, for a number of reasons (some of the pretty good ones, too *smirk*), but I was reading the daily Coding Horror blog entry this morning and it contained a little observation so obvious and powerful (yet frequently ignored) that I had to immediately act on it :

And yet over and over, I’m gathering stories that point to the fact that programmers do not want to write code out in the open. Programmers don’t want their peers to see mistakes or failures. They want to work privately, in a cave, then spring "perfect" code on their community, as if no mistakes had ever been made.

One of the unfortunate consequences of this trait, which I exhibit just as much as (and maybe more than) any other developer I’ve ever met, is that for very long periods of time it will appear that I am doing absolutely nothing with regard to C:SI, while the truth may be that I’m just in "dark mode".

While the aforementioned blog post has more relevance to professional software development than to in-world scripting, it at the very least demonstrates to me that I could do a much better job of communicating what I’m doing "behind the scenes" rather than giving the appearance of doing nothing.

So on that note :

I’ve been reviewing the comments on my using bots for testing post, and compiling those into a more formal (in the sense of ‘do these steps’) list of tests to be performed, as well as trying to understand the whole ‘what makes a balanced weapon’ subject, and am beginning the process of working on updating the bot code. 

This will likely be a long-term ongoing project, but if it’s at all interesting to people I could post about my progress here.  I’ve also been considering posting periodically about how I implement various things in the bot code in case anyone else is interested in the subject, but I’m not certain I want to do something like that until I get some issues worked out (which is, of course, the whole point of the subject mentioned in the first paragraph, lol).

In any case, I just wanted to let people know that I’m recovering just fine, and *am* working on stuff, even though it probably doesn’t look that way

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