Most of today has been spent piddling around doing nothing much, however some Java has been written. And that which has been written has convinced me that, at least, some of my madness is achievable.
As ever, with computing, the trick is to break the task down into manageable chunks. So to start with I'm going to write a basic text editor. In real life this would be a stupid proposition [don't re-invent the wheel], but I'm trying to learn here, so I'll let myself off.
An hour or two got me something that I can use. At which point I stopped. Which I'm proud of myself for.
There's a temptation when you're programming to just thrash ahead when things are going well. This has to be resisted—when you see that you can do something then is the time to write the specification. So that [and a visit to B & Q] are on the menu for tomorrow.
I hate writing specifications, and B & Q, but then I hate most of the text editors that I use—they have too many time-consumming features that I never want to use. it would be nice to have a bespoke one.
[Eventually I'll move all this rubbish onto my nonsense, but for now you're going to be stuck with me posting here!]