It wouldn't be a stretch to say that this journal has gotten awfully technical in the last year or so. This is largely because, well, my interests have become a lot more technical in the last year or so; I've always been girl-who-makes-stuff, and more and more these days, the Stuff that I make is code rather than, say, fiction or clothing. I think about it a lot, and by extension, I write about it a lot.

When I write about technical subjects, I try to be as accessible as I can, because most of y'all aren't technical people. I'm very glad that you're not, just for the record; I value having technical friends, but I also value having a wide range of friends from all walks of life. I don't try to dumb things down, but I do find myself spinning out more long-winded explanations where a word or two of jargon would convey the same information to a smaller set of people. This is actually pretty useful to me, as well, because it forces me to think about what I'm doing in explicit detail -- it's the principle of The Best Way to be Sure You've Learned Something is to Teach It.

I wonder, though, whether it's useful to anyone else. Do people actually read the posts where I'm rabbiting on about the current code project? Do they make sense? Would you rather I wrote about the non-work things going on in my life instead? (Be warned, though, this journal might get kinda quiet if that was all I talked about. Some day I will have a life again, but that won't be for another few months.)