That Last 5%

Saturday, April 28, 2007, at 11:46AM

By Eric Richardson

I've been working on writing a new set of code to run blogdowntown (which was a big deal in itself, but not my topic at the moment). I've been at work on it off and on for a little over two months. Only really in the last week have I dug in and decided to get it finished, though.

Today I've been working on the code since about 7:30am. I'm maybe 98% to being launch ready, but that last 5% is killing me. Everything works, except for the little things here and there that keep needing to be tested or needing a tweak.

I really just want to be done, push it live, and head out for a bike ride. At this point I'm doubting the first two parts of that are going to take place today, but it's too nice out to skip the ride.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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