This is a waypoint entry, which includes a progress report along with some personal notes on what I’ve been up to in my work on building Skills to Practice.

Work on Bug Hunt was consistent from its first early access release on March 14 until v0.6.0 shipped on May 17.

Then life got complicated for me as family obligations took center stage for the last two months. I was in a place where I had to assist with some important changes for those nearest and dearest to me, while also shoring up my own foundation as well.

There’s still a good amount of grinding left to do on all of that, but little by little I find myself recovering. Regaining excitement about this project because I never ran out of steam on it by any means… just had to give my full attention elsewhere for a while.

The tricky thing for me at the moment is figuring out how much to focus my energy on Bug Hunt in particular vs. laying the groundwork for Skills to Practice as a whole. But that’s more of a question to sort out over the next few months, rather than the next few weeks.

Over the next few weeks, my immediate next steps are obvious:

• Ship Bug Hunt v0.7.0 as soon as possible.

• Hit the halfway-done point for Bug Hunt by August 15.
  (only six more exercises shipped would get me there)

• Finish all but the “challenge exercises” and get those through beta testing with early access readers by the end of September.
  (this would bring the guide up to 42 exercises in total)  

• Publish frequent waypoint entries on this website to keep myself motivated and make it easy for others to see what I’ve been up to since they last checked in.

The rest can be sorted out as I go.

Onward!