/prog/ 2012 challenge

Brothers and sisters,

As the end of the year comes closer, and we reflect on what has happened on /prog/ this last year, we have to admit that we did not accomplish very much. Perhaps in our private lives, yes, but here on /prog/ we have spent the majority of the year trolling, meta-trolling, complaining about it and going nowhere in particular. If we look at our community I'm going to say we have very little to be proud of: /prog/ kinda sucks.

I say we change all that. I say in 2012 we band together and prove that /prog/ is better than it has ever been before just by making it so. That we can come to /prog/ with an expectation of lulz and wisdom. I'm willing to make the effort, who's with me?

ITT post your new years resolutions for /prog/, I'll start:

* If I have nothing substantial to say I will sage it.

1. To actually finish a project.

I start and make significant headway in tons of ambitious projects -- a TTS engine, a game engine, an OS kernel -- and some that are less complex but potentially more useful -- such a s a widget library for SFML that I've been working on. After a few weeks (or even days) I inevitably get bored and work on something else. As such, I still haven't finished a single non-trivial program.

2. To learn to actually design my programs. I tend to think about the problem for a bit and start writing code right away.

3. To contribute to several open source projects. I started writing a patch for the GNOME screenshot program a while ago which would put formatting in the text entry where you typed the filename (so you could put "%y-%m-%d %H:%M" and the result would be "2011-12-26 23:49") and I got bored of trying to read their code and figure out where to actually implement the feature, so I gave up and played Half-Life 2 instead.