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1 week in. Weather is getting hotter. Code is being written. It's great to be seeing real progress.

To tell the truth, I've previously spent a few weeks working full time on Sublime Text, so this isn't entirely new. I'm addressing some of the bigger areas of work that I haven't had an opportunity to in the past. When you've only got weeknights available, it's harder to justify work that doesn't have an immediate result.

It all comes under the 'Things to do before launch' category, seeing that list get smaller is great.

December, 2005. I had been kicking around the idea of a 3D accelerated text editor for some time. In my head I could see myself zooming in and out of files like I was in a movie. Gasps from the crowd at the smooth action! I could see myself cackling at the luddites with their tired old scrollbars.

I spent a weekend building a prototype that did just that. It zoomed! It panned! Only, it sucked. It turns out that you can't zoom very far out at all before the text becomes totally illegible. Working on files you can't read wasn't quite what I had in mind!

I did get some insight out of the prototype however, and it gradually morphed into what Sublime Text is today. You'll get to see what that is, when I finally get the bloody thing released later this year.

Hello! New beginnings are fantastic. This one especially, because it's a beautiful spring Monday, and I didn't wake up to an alarm this morning. Today is my first day working full time on my own software project, without a paycheque parachute.

It's almost two years since I wrote the first line of code for this project. I think it's still in there somewhere. After spending so much spare time on the project, it builds up a momentum of its own, culminating to an inevitable mass. Which is why I'm sitting here at home, switching between writing this post and staring at source code, and not pushing bits at the day job.

Personally, I love reading about software startups, and if you do too, dear reader, then you may want to continue reading.

Enjoy!