Badges, then nothing for four months

The one commit worth mentioning in June generates team badges dynamically and wires them into the client. Small, sensible, very much in keeping with May's clubhouse work — every club now has a crest instead of a gap.

Then the log goes quiet. July, August, September: near enough nothing.

I'm writing this down deliberately, because there's no hidden epic in those months waiting to be narrated into something. I could tell you about a grand architectural rethink. There wasn't one. I had a burst of energy in April and May, I built an engine and a world skeleton and a corridor of half-furnished rooms, and then my attention went elsewhere for a season. That's what building beside a day job looks like most of the time.

The cost of a pause like that is real and I'd rather not pretend otherwise. Context decays — I couldn't tell you today what I was thinking about half of that gRPC wiring. Dependencies age quietly while you're not looking. Half-finished experiments turn into archaeology, and you come back to dig, not to build.

The one thing you do get back is a sense of proportion. Four months away is quite good at telling you which of your unfinished ideas you actually miss. Not many of them, as it turns out.

Anyway. The trough is the entry. October is where I pick it up again.