Amped

I'm feeling amped today. Do you ever get that? Like everything feels really positive and you don't want to sleep because you know sleep is going to reset it?

I'm feeling good about programming today. I'm going to get comfortable with Typescript. I have had such a massive paradigm shift in the last 5 years. I used to be a big separation-of-concerns guy; your HTML, CSS, JS, application logic should all be firewalled. But having maintained codebases like this for 20 years I'm over it. Why should my view, view logic, and styling all be decoupled? They're all part of the same thing - keeping them separate because they're a different language is arbitrary and I'm done with it - especially when we separate them just to contrive to join them back up. I don't like that any more.

And since JS can run on servers, and Typescript can give me autocomplete in the browser for things that happen on the server, why wouldn't I do it that way?! I used to hate the idea of JS on the server because I hated JS, but Typescript does a job of taming the things I don't like about JS (it introduces its own delightful idiosyncrasies, sure, but when was anything ever a pure benefit?! Drawbacks remind you you're alive).

I'm feeling good about gaming, even though I'm not going to do any gaming. My mentality here is that I want a game that's like a sport. Like I used to feel about Dead Cells and Hades. I want a session game that I can just pick up and play and it'll be like a skateboarding-racing-metroidvania or something. You know when you have an itch just behind your sternum? That's where my gaming itch is right now. I would need a surgeon to scratch it for me.

I'm feeling good about music even though I'm not going to make any music. I like watching videos of people making music, and I like music hardware, and I like thinking that I could be the sort of person who could make music, even though history suggests that's a lie. I'm going to bookmark some videos about singing, and guitar, and synths and I'll watch them but never pick up anything because I just like the thought of it. Then I'll talk to Dan about it all because he actually does it, and that'll feel nice. I like knowing about things.

So yeah, feeling positive. Nothing to do with the fact that it's Friday. Don't burst my bubble; I'll do that myself tomorrow.