adventures in code

[rivendellrose]

I've been doing a lot more coding at my job the last several months, because the auditing thing that was my primary job function for the last four of my eight years at the company finally got automated and I guess they decided I'd better actually do the thing that my job title says for a while.

Anyway, I mention this here not because I've become so brilliant at web dev (spoilers: I haven't), but because, strangely, I think of LJ/DW most days while I'm working. Because one of the things I often need to do is use CSS alter the appearance of some aspect of our standard platform (since our flexible website platform is pretty much anything but flexible), and... often times that means eyeballing something and thinking "50 pixels to the right? Will 50px do it? And... 100px down?"

And always, always, when I'm trying to do this, the unit of measurement that my brain works in... is LJ/DW icons.

(Yeah, I know, there's tools to measure that shit. I'm lazy, and installing anything on my stupid work computer requires a HelpDesk ticket. Plus, I already have to trial-and-error just about everything, so...)

We now return you to our regularly scheduled hour of staring at NaNoWriMo thinking "I'm sure I had an idea what I was going to write about on October 31..."

Comments

[nenya_kanadka]

Yup, I do the same thing with LJ/DW icons as a unit of measure. It's handy! I've certainly stared at enough of the in my life!

So far not failing at NaNo, and deeply surprised. :P (You can probably find me via gaslightgallows's buddy list over there, should you be inclined to look me up.)

[rivendellrose]

It's just such a convenient little rule of thumb, when you need it!

Awesome! I'll look you up over there. I've got a number of years behind me at the whole NaNo thing, but I'm always astonished when I manage to pull it off. ;)

[nenya_kanadka]

Have friended (buddied? that sounds so weird) you over there. :D

I did wrisomifu for a couple of years, which ran in November and had the less-intimidating goal of "write something, ANYthing, for ten minutes a day" and ended up netting me several stories and a boost to my creative process. But this year I seem to have the time for NaNo proper, so here we go.

It'll be short-story smut rather than anything novel-ish or highbrow, but hey. I've doubled the length of said smutty short story in five days, hurray!

[rivendellrose]

Yeah, I've never figured out a good verb for NaNo buddies. "Added" is the best I can come up with, most of the time, and that's so boring.

I... really don't have time? But it's kind of habit, by now, so... we'll see how far I get!

[nenya_kanadka]

Honestly, if you can harness the inertia from previous years and get words out of it, I figure that's all to the good. :D