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I've been really impressed with the heart and soul into a single focus. When I saw this link pop up I thought "Oh it must be using buttplug.io" but was surpris

I've been really impressed with the heart and soul into a single focus. When I saw this link pop up I thought "Oh it must be using buttplug.io" but was surprised to see it was from you and predates buttplug.io. As someone who can't always retain focus without getting drawn away to the new shiny I want to know, how do you remain focused on this a single family of projects? How deal will keeping from getting drawn away to a fun new idea? I'm especially interested because its a topic that others might consider as a bit of a joke. It's obvious you've embrace that a lot in your online persona, but does it ever get to you or sap motivation?

qdot76367 5y ago
Hah, yeah, I've been at this since 2004, so deldo is mid-career for me, and Buttplug has been relatively recent! The perception that I've stuck with a single direction isn't quite how things actually turn out. I work in a general context of devices, and Buttplug is now a through-line for that, but I still get distracted and go off and do random things constantly. It's just usually based around that through-line. For instance, right now I'm rewriting our buttplug application GUIs in Rust using egui, because immediate mode guis looked interesting (and also because electron was a poor choice in the first place). I've also spent most of the year concentrating on VR interfaces to toy control. It all revolves around affective haptics/teledildonics, but that's really just the base camp. Thanks to knowing the field and the technology I need for it, I can go any direction from there. All that said, yeah, I have constant motivation issues. I take weeks/months off at a time (the combo of Metroid Dread, Deathloop and Forza horizon 5 coming out relatively close to each other this past 1.5 months is one of those times :) ). But working in the subject always gives me that base camp to come back to, at which point I can decide which direction I want to go again.

qdot76367 5y ago

Hah, yeah, I've been at this since 2004, so deldo is mid-career for me, and Buttplug has been relatively recent! The perception that I've stuck with a single direction isn't quite how things actually turn out. I work in a general context of devices, and Buttplug is now a through-line for that, but I still get distracted and go off and do random things constantly. It's just usually based around that through-line. For instance, right now I'm rewriting our buttplug application GUIs in Rust using egui, because immediate mode guis looked interesting (and also because electron was a poor choice in the first place). I've also spent most of the year concentrating on VR interfaces to toy control. It all revolves around affective haptics/teledildonics, but that's really just the base camp. Thanks to knowing the field and the technology I need for it, I can go any direction from there. All that said, yeah, I have constant motivation issues. I take weeks/months off at a time (the combo of Metroid Dread, Deathloop and Forza horizon 5 coming out relatively close to each other this past 1.5 months is one of those times :) ). But working in the subject always gives me that base camp to come back to, at which point I can decide which direction I want to go again.