Laziness

We’re trying out the Backpack Journal at work, so I spent a little bit of time yesterday making sure my code commits would automatically show up as entries. I thought it would be nice if I could easily set my Journal status from the command line, so I knocked together a quick tool. Other folks wanted to use it too, and a few minutes later it was available via Github.

It was far easier for me to host on Github than to set things up on a private company server. It was far easier for me to generate a gem with Hoe and have Github autobuild it than to write an ad-hoc script and email it around.

My initial laziness will keep paying off, too: I have built-in channels for pushing upgrades, receiving code contributions, and upgrading my project infrastructure. Bangpow.