The challenge of interesting side projects is that it's not just the thing. It's the thing then a whole-ass visualisation library. Or tooling for whatever stupid thing I want to do.

Also then I get bored and start on the next thing.

Ass visualisation?

@donkulator https://dictionary.cambridge.org/di...

Apologies, I'll hyphenate it

As Ismo said it correctly, everything becomes better when you add ass to it. Even bad becomes good with bad-ass.

@donkulator damn you! Have a cookie 🍪 😂

I have a whole story written but it doesn't post.

Edit: copied the whole thing to geany and back to this window but it really doesn't want to post.

Ok, short version. @atheist - i always moved on to next project too and not finishing a lot. But now I found out to switch between three projects. An editor, a common function library and a regex interpreter. They all get the effort they deserve

@retoor "But now I found out to switch between three projects. An editor, a common function library and a regex interpreter. They all get the effort they deserve"

Thats actually not a half-bad idea to distract the dopamine circuit in the brain.

You ever notice that shit? You'll be working on something for too long and then hit a wall just looking at the code, and you know what you need to do, but your brain just doesn't want to translate to code, like the back of your mind has gone on strike out of boredom?

"It's the thing then a whole-ass visualisation library. Or tooling for whatever stupid thing I want to do."

I keep on thinking I'm going to do a visualisation library as well.

Never happens.

Like working for an executive who wants a dashboard. Even if you TLC that shit out of it, it'll be the best-dashboard-an-executive-never-used-or-understood, like all the rest.

"Whats your job?" says bob.

atheist: "Number go up."

bob: "wut?"

atheist: "NUMBER. GO. UP!"

some executive in a meeting: "this slide-show presentation of screenshots of the dashboard, taken by an intern, isn't working."

you: "we have a broadcast live feature."

executive: "NEVER MIND THAT! YOUR DASHBOARD IS BROKEN!"

you *thinking*: you were just going to lie and manipulate the numbers anyway.

board meeting: "OOOOOH PRETTY COLORS AND NUMBERS" *mesmerized*.

Rinse and repeat.

@Wisecrack yes! Exactly, this is indeed how to keep dopamine flowing and what I do. I have fun and time flies by