I feel like my own side projects haunt me sometimes. I want to build new and shiny things, I buy domain names, I get 90% of the way there… and then eh. Time for something new and shiny again.

But now, I’m at a point where I just finished a super busy time at work, it’s a holiday week without a ton to do, and I have the energy and motivation to code… and I am stuck. I really, really want to work on something new from my pile of project ideas.

But, I am also haunted by my own side projects that are almost done, some that are so close it would almost be stupid to not work on them.

…

But they aren’t shiny anymore!

And the annoying thing too is that these are projects that I really do want to exist in the world. I think I just know how much work is involved to get them going again, and that amount of work is daunting (but something new is unknown and thrilling).

I really don’t know how to overcome this. Probably with good ol’ “discipline” or something. I wrote this post with the intention to get me in the groove of just working on anything that might partially exist already. It has kinda worked. Maybe. We’ll see what I ship next.