miniblog.

I'm implementing an interpreter, and wondering how often I should check for interruptions (e.g. Ctrl-C). I don't want to spend too much CPU time checking whether I've been interrupted, but I also want slow programs to stop promptly. It's tricky.

I think software maintainers can perceive their projects as way more buggy than they actually are. You spend more time looking at the bug tracker, which is (hopefully!) not representative of typical usage.

Some of my OSS projects are largely feature complete. For them, virtually every commit is just fixing bugs reported. It's a strange routine, because it means the time I spend maintaining is dependent on the bug report rate, which largely depends on the size of the user base.