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My old post is relevant here, “Why I prefer making useless stuff”. Which is very different than working on useless stuff at work! https://austinhenley.com/blog

My old post is relevant here, “Why I prefer making useless stuff”. Which is very different than working on useless stuff at work! https://austinhenley.com/blog/makinguselessstuff.html https://austinhenley.com/blog/makinguselessstuff.html

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sspiff 3y ago
Did you ever make that typed lisp compiler? Asking for a friend.
- theihor 3y ago
  What are you saying? Making another lisp is useless?!
  - sspiff 3y ago
    No I'm looking for a small lisp to embed in a useless project of my own
    - amon22 3y ago
      Fennel might be a good choice for that
octokatt 3y ago
I appreciate how making useless stuff is fun as a hobby, and enjoying that play is important. Even crows enjoy their sleds [0], that’s how important play is. Needing to complete a project for the sake of your continued survival/paycheck, while adhering to specific criteria, is very much the opposite experience. A study done where _people were paid to put together Lego sets_ put together less of them when they had to watch the researcher take them apart immediately afterwards, despite intrinsically enjoying Legos [1]. [0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mRnI4dhZZxQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mRnI4dhZZxQ [1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167268108000127 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01672...