It seems that when i find something I enjoy as a hobby I always try to find a way to help out. For anime that was being a fansubber for two years. In gentoo, it seems to be slowly learning to program (I’m also supposed to learn C# for work, but it’ll take a bit longer). I also try to do a few ebuilds that are wanted/needed, and are within my ability to do. The programming is going into the development of a program called eper.

Eper started out as a bash script that would be slightly more accurate then most of the % based programs out there. Not to say they are bad but a bit of my perfectionism came out. I eventially hit a wall in bash that I didn’t think could be overcome, so I had to start from ground zero and rewrite the program in something that was fairly easy to learn for someone who hadn’t done much programming. Python was the choice. It also had/has the added benefit of being what emerge (what the program bases itself off of) is written in. Now I’ve gotten the program down to the debugging stages currently, which has been a lot of progress for me. I’ve also learned a lot in the process. The first version will of course be quite messy because it makes use of a lot of things python is capable of but I personally find that I did sloppily, not knowing how to do it otherwise at the time. Once I get the few glitches fixed I hope to have it released for others to use. Since there has been some people interested in it, and I think it’s generally a useful feature to have a hmm I guess i have 80% left to go.