Awesome Sauce Java with Hot Sauce OS

I'm not summiting anything anytime soon, but I liked the title.  It's kind of appropriate, but unlike real life, the summit in software is the next peak from which to start the next ascent into the unknown.  I hope.  While my life is chaotic due to what I get to call spatial blindness and brokenness to time, when I write ASJ code, it's pretty fun to experience what grows. This morning on the train, I had the chance and the perspective to review what ASJ is, how it works and where to take it next.  I'm pretty sure getting macros moving/working has really taken a load off my mind.  One thing I've noticed recently, and I hope the awareness is a sign of healing, is that when I sometimes think of something I have to build, there's a big fear that overwhelms my logical mind. In the abstract, it seems to make sense that fear would overwhelm certain thoughts or behaviors, as the most likely area to suffer when violently clubbed in the front of the head is the higher...

I was giving a demo to my son the other day.  And it was awful.  I've been working so hard on just exploring and framing out enough of Awesome Sauce Java with Hot Sauce, that it's a developers dream, but an "elevator pitch" nightmare. Fortunately, it'll be easy to fix.  Once I get macros implemented, I'm going to finish a configuration I started the other day that will make it possible to manage the state of all the parts of everything related to showing what makes ASJ w/HS special.  I mean, I'm supposed to say it's cool.  But, since you don't know me, you might think I'm just hacking on something because I think it's cool. Truth is, I can only work on things that are measurably "better" with respect to some meaningful metric.  I've been working on software continuously since 1980.  The weird part about my career, is that it tanked after a savage head injury.  At the time, I was at Apple.  They had just made a job for me, ...

My life has been fun, but at times quite challenging. Drought, earthquakes, crazy numbers of cats and at the same time, bugs, head injuries I watched from 15 feet away from my body, bad doctors, and a whole lot of bad characters. But I keep going because it keeps getting better.  I've been poor a long time, but I know money will come. How do I know? The drought ended. Nothing lasts forever. Bad people might try to make us look bad, but the truth always comes to light. Which brings me to Awesome Sauce Java with Hot Sauce.  Awesome Sauce is the language. It's dynamic and fast and puts Java in a format that works for me. I've learned more Java with it than ever before. But it kicks my butt a lot and frustrates me. Like today, while working on the HTML generating code, I realized I implemented macros in a weird way. Or I'm not understanding how I implemented them.  That happens sometimes when I haven't worked with a set of logic, block of code, or mode of operatio...