Revisiting an Old Refactor

I’ve been doing coding for myself this week, which was a surprising thing. I’ve been mostly all work for a while now, and downtime rarely involves coding for my own pleasure.

While I have several old projects that really need some time and attention once more, I ended up revisiting my Villanelle Bot project. Which, after some recent changes at Heroku, stopped working.

I found an old branch that I had started earlier in the year, with some attempts to upgrade dependencies. So I started on a rebuild, trying to use a bit of TypeScript and to restructure the whole poem creation process.

I have to say – it’s been pretty satisfying. I tend to really dislike the tooling/setup, but once I’m past all that… it’s been very enjoyable. I’m trying to write tests as I go (still not quite adopting a TDD approach). But it’s better than I’ve been before.

If it’s any indication that I’m enjoying this – I’m finding myself waking up early, most days, so I can get a bit of coding in. Proof, I think, that I really need some other hobbies.

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Reviving an Old Project
Villanelle Bot: Poems in the Villanelle Form, Created Using Random Posts from Twitter