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I like this theory. This explains the surprise others manifest when I tell them about my pet projects not receiving updates in months. My reasoning "they work a
by soco 3y ago
I like this theory. This explains the surprise others manifest when I tell them about my pet projects not receiving updates in months. My reasoning "they work already as expected" somehow doesn't strike any chord in them - I'm the one making things while they would fiddle constantly making things.
- alkonaut 3y agoYeah I guess it's depending what the goal is. When I do hobby coding in a new language then it's usually for learning. But obviously then I'm not going to be good enough to create much that is useful for anyone else (even me). If I code-as-meditation or code-as-a-concept-thinking it's more like "could I make a synthesizer?" or "how do B-trees work? Could I make a simple database?". And the coding is part of figuring out how something works or if I'm capable of doing it, rather than actually getting a working synth out of it. I just want to make, not have a thing. Given the choice of completing the first project or starting a new one, I'd rather just work to the stage that I understand that it could be done in theory, or that I could do it personally (if I invested way too much time), than actually do it.