Volunteer social thread #19

[pauamma]

I may have to learn German.

So what have you guys been up to?

Comments

[kaberett]

Howso needing to learn German? If you just need snippets translated I can do that!

I um. Project. Depression. Sadness. Working on it all.

And so on.

[pauamma]

So I can read the whole thing in my CFT?

[ninetydegrees]

Besides eating too much? Going to Ikea and the likes to buy new stuff for my flat so stuff can go into stuff and I could get rid of other stuff. There was a lot of stuff. *iz tired*

[momijizukamori]

If you subsitute 'craigslist' for 'IKEA' that's me. On the upside, I know where all my tools are now?

[randomling]

Uh, same old, same old. Battling depression. Losing badly.

Hope everyone else is doing much, much better.

[pauamma]

I beg to disagree. As long as you're battling depression, you're not losing. It is. It's only telling you that you are to try making you stop fighting.

[momijizukamori]

On the eternal 'oh god I need a job' treadmill. Neurotically reorganizing my house to compensate for my job anxiety. Attempting to learn more Perl to try and do things beyond patch styles and feeling vaguely overwhelmed *g*

[foxfirefey]

Do you need any Perl mentoring sessions?

[momijizukamori]

I may :c I'm going to try and work on some of our style processing scripts to automate things more and try to make sense of them.

Trying to work on bugs in the actual codebase is making me go 'D8' though.

[swaldman]

How are you with JS? Once current issues with perl module versions are resolved, I need help from somebody front-endy to make my twitter project UI work right ;-)

[momijizukamori]

I am a JS noob, sadly. Though I'm working on remedying that (and JS seems a little less scary than Perl)

[swaldman]

Heh - I have exactly the opposite reaction (I'm a perl noob, but it's less scary than JS!)

[momijizukamori]

I suspect it's a question of point of view XD writing very basic programs is similar, but I get overwhelmed with PERL MODULES EVERYWHERE OMG whereas the idea of modifying HTML elements makes more sense to me.

[swaldman]

Makes sense - I come from a non-web programming background (well, as much as I come from a programming background at all), wheras the last time I did any web stuff, CSS was new...

[momijizukamori]

Yeah, I started my code-learning just after CSS started to get momentum, and it was teaching myself HTML and CSS, so my learning has been rather... frontend-y.

[kareila]

I am in the process of offloading some of my other responsibilities so that I have more time for DW.