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the one marvelously unsegmented pool of time
Monday, February 6 2017
The remote workplace scrambled my plans for making progress today on replacing the basement library window with a door. I sat down at my computer after running the dogs in the forest and soon (that is, well before my actual workday was to begin), I got a Gchat message from Te, the young woman who handles donation imports, telling me that the import wasn't working. I soon determined why: the company handling the donations had actually gotten around to doing what they'd been threatening to do since June: they'd pulled the plug on their old Application Program Interface (API), the system that robotically imports all the donations. I'd build code to deal with their new API, but that API worked like shit, so I'd kept the old code in service for as long as I could. Today, though, I was going to have to come up with a plan B. Before long, I realized the new API was still too shitty to use (that might've been the plan B), so I built and tested an importer designed to handle CSVs downloaded from the website of the donation service (plan C!). By the time all that was done, I'd burned through all the available daylight of a February workday and was forced to work on some of the outdoor part of the basement project in the dark. I managed to cut through and remove a few cedar clapboards, but it was really too dark to get much done even with a headlamp. Mark's two visits this weekend had really set me back in the one marvelously unsegmented pool of time that I had to work with.
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