[convolvatron]

i'm the same way. as in almost the poster child.

one thing that I've found is to just give myself time to do cleanup. that includes making the code more readable, adding better handling for error paths, writing tests, documentation, etc.

i'm still not great, but at least some of those things get done. so when it comes time to try to release something, you can ignore the newest work and hopefully ship something useful with the rest.

usually when i sit down I only get joy out of pushing the functionality apex a little further. when this gets tiring, instead of posting semi-useful comments on HN, just spend 10 minutes making a little test or something.