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packrat

If you want to always be working on your project but don't want to get burned out, learn other aspects on top of it. If you're focused on the mechanics, take some time to learn the art. If nothing else, psych yourself out with extreme discipline. As Lord Naoshige once said, "simply become insane and desperate" - Hagakure.
With enough coffee and self inflicted dread of what tomorrow may look like, you can do anything.

Nerdzmasterz

packrat Thanks! Actually, I just took some time off the project- but not a lot. I am literally at the point where I can create the full plot and all the levels now, and I'm feeling better! Hopefully, I'll be able to get back to it.

Pixophir

Wasn't all that bad a day for me.

Got a stripped down demo of my project (terrain lod) almost ready. Currently hunting a few memory leaks and off-by-something errors, they still keep on being a bit faster than I, but I'll have them cornered soon. Will check in the next week to discuss the feasibility. Not quite sure how to integrate it in the Godot Scene structure.

My other project, getting me a new place, is suffering setbacks. There is no concrete here, and no steel to reinforce the concrete. They don't even have copper cables for DC installations, not talking about fuses and other protective devices. Meaning that if something becomes available it is a seller's market. Pay the called price or go away. I also received solar panels, 3 out of 26 were broken. And the inverters they sent are the wrong ones. And the Chinese transport agent that has my batteries has confused Las Palmas with La Palma. Given, that each delivery takes between 2 weeks and 2 months because customs and yanking supply chains, this is all going a bit on my ... you get it.

Be it as it may crack zosh, skol !

cybereality

I passed my Operating Systems class!!! Now only 2 more courses and I graduate for Computer Science.

Bimbam

Audiobellum .Do you think anyone would be happy buying a singleplayer FPS with no story and only five levels?

In principle the core of Enter the Gungeon is 'only 5 levels' and the story is also borderline non-existent. Granted the levels are procedurally altered, but the genius is in the difficulty and rate of progression being incredibly well balanced.

duane

New Firefox. Ugh. And it's an extended support release, so I've only got a few more months of updates to my perfectly functional v91, before I have to suck up another load of chrome-inspired, anti-user garbage. The only good thing I can say about firefox is that it's better than the alternatives (at least if you bank online).

DaveTheCoder

I've never understood why they started incrementing Firefox's major version number every month.

cybereality

Firefox is great. Not sure why people are so averse to change. You can always throw out your computer and move out into the woods, if technological progression bothers you.

duane

Unfortunately, a lot of firefox's progress involves prioritizing stupid-user security over smart-user capabilities.

I've been using greasemonkey for nearly a decade to do useful stuff like automatically forward links to my server and remove unnecessary junk from web sites. When you have big fonts for your weak eyes, you have to remove some of the extraneous nonsense from some sites to see anything. Sadly, firefox's improvements have a way of disabling any useful tweaks to make the browser actually work.

Of course, if the Web was just text and images and links, the way it was intended, none of this would be an issue. Any browser would show the page the way you want it to instead of some barely educated web designer's acid-induced artistic ~~hallucination~~ vision. 😛

cybereality

That's why I want Project Gemini to take off, but I doubt it will have any commercial interest.

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

I've been planning on putting up a mirror of my blog on Gemini, but it hasn't been a top priority.

Bimbam

Hey I'm educated....

Just not in web development lol. I feel like a lot of bad websites are probably made by people like me though, who had a crack thinking "can't be that hard, I already know language X" and then ran head first into the horrors of ASYNC and <INSERT JAVASCRIPT FRAMEWORK HERE>.

Bimbam

Oh, and to anyone who thinks Python's typing is bad, this:

console.log("1" == 1)
Evaluates as True in javascript, while this:

console.log("010" == 010)
Evaluates as False.

It's like it WANTS you to mess up -.-

The equivalent in Python would evaluate as something like "Type Error fool! what you playing at!"

fire7side

I don't like anything web when it comes to "programming". More like markup or something. I like Firefox and it's security consciousness. I am so sick of websites tracking me everywhere. If they can help stop it, Kudos to them. Plus it's open source and they basically invented rust, which is a more secure low level language that even linux is moving into a little bit and it's getting incorporated into it. Yeah!!! Like them a lot.

cybereality

If you want to see how bad Javascript gets:

Bimbam

I forget if the 'Senior' one is funnier:

cybereality

I've done a bunch of web programming, but I almost always write everything from scratch myself. People are like: "use npm" and they give you some command that downloads 10GB of dependencies. No thanks.

packrat

cybereality There are useful programs I have not used due to its amount of dependencies. It's easiest to keep a stable operating system when the amount of things that can go wrong stays little.

Bimbam

packrat
why virtual environments are a thing ^^

cybereality

Well, at least with my own projects, when it's custom code to standards, it still compiles and works years later. When you use too many libraries and dependencies, the code doesn't even compile. You have to get specific older versions, which may not be compatible with new hardware/software/APIs and then the code is dead. So, you can spend a few days and update it, but it's a pain in the butt. But then you update to a new version of the library, and the function you were using is deprecated or gone, etc.

TwistedTwigleg

cybereality it's a pain in the butt. But then you update to a new version of the library, and the function you were using is deprecated or gone, etc.

Sad, but true. Have spent a lot of time before just making changes after upgrading a single library or similar. Never fun and the odds go up the more dependencies you have. It is even worse if something is removed with no alternative or the alternative doesn’t work the way you need.

I also find it happens a bit more with new/cutting-edge libraries and similar. Unfortunately, those new/cutting-edge stuff is generally what makes me want to use it and/or choose it over alternatives 😆

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