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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 07:48:41 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   the world needs more recreational programming.
   like, was this the most optimal or elegant way to code this?

   no, but it was the most fun to write.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 09:08:47 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     cause like, yeah, it's good to know how to write optimal code and how to make it elegant and easy to maintain, sure!

     but one thing you have to maintain is your brain. If you're constantly driving your programming brain at maximum speed, maximum awareness of all possible caveats and vulnerabilities, always considering "how will I maintain this code in ten years time?" you're going to burn yourself out.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 09:13:00 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     You're associating programming with a high-stress high-attention activity. That's going to make programming something that's categorized in your brain as no fun, never relaxing, never something you do just cause it would be interesting... you're going to start dreading it, even just a little. "oh well, let's get this over with."

     That's not a good way to think about it in the long run.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 09:17:09 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     we often say that programming is more an art than a science, but we need to treat it like one too.

     Sometimes you need to paint a sunset not because someone paid you to paint a sunset, but because it'd be fun to paint a sunset.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 09:19:43 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     we need a bob ross of programming

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 09:21:54 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     PBS's The Joy Of Programming

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 09:37:44 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • King Calyo Delphi

     @dragonarchitect yeah that's the kind of feature you used to see a lot more of in games and such back in the day.

     I think Kris Asick of Ancient DOS Games talked about this once, saying some feature feels like it's just there because the programmer thought it would be fun to add.

     Like, is the script complete enough without this? Yeah. Does it really need this? Nope. Did it scratch a fun itch to add it? You bet!

   • King Calyo Delphi (dragonarchitect@rubber.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 09:37:45 JST King Calyo Delphi

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     @foone I've been kinda doing that with my python dice rolling script, but with the added fun challenge of also being able to provide an optional statistics report including the polynomial generating function that gets all the useful probability stats if --verbose is set.

     It's more meant to be a fun trip into the math of dice probability than being a useful dice rolling script, but I get a useful dice rolling script out of it as a bonus so hey presto.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 10:09:37 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Wolf480pl

     @wolf480pl yeah, but thrilling things are fun because they're done for fun. Your boss isn't making you skydive, usually

   • Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 10:09:38 JST Wolf480pl

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     @foone hmm maybe there are two types of fun: the relaxing fun and the thrilling fun? After all, people do all kinds of dangerous things for fun and I don't thimk those are low-stress or low-attention situations...