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[zoeythebee]

Sometimes I forget what makes programming fun. Why am I doing this?

[moose-mousse]

Make things better

Software is the same as hardware. But easy to change.

They are the same, because both is simply "make electronics do what we want it to"

Most often that electronics is a PC.

So we can simplify to "Make PC do what we want it to"

If your PC does exactly what you want it to, then there is no need to work with software.

In other words:

We work with software to make things better

If you are not able to make things better because of restrictions then what you are doing is meaningless

Finding meaning in actions is what motivates humans

And the lack of meaning ( more specifically, the PERCEIVED lack of meaning ) causes burnout.

It is bad for your brain!

So make something better!

Make your GUI more colorful!

Make your tasks easier to overview!

Make the code easier to change!

Remove the frustrating things!

Make your life better!

This is hard. But it is worth it.

Latest tiny thing that made me happy? A tiny 8 line .bat file that opens all the programs and folders I need to start working :3

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[tordenvejr]

not knowing the path doesn't mean the path doesn't exist

[queerdiazs-deactivated20250108]

the urge to write never leaves but the motivation to do so is a lover lost at war

[valtsv]

"i wish i could exfoliate my brain" you can. by reading things that challenge you.

[elbiotipo]

[confusedbyinterface]

so I'm reading Gankra's "Learn Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists" and the introduction feels like

STOP USING LINKED LISTS

DATA ELEMENTS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE GIVEN POINTERS

YEARS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for using anything other than Vec

Want to add and remove elements from the front and back just for a laugh? We have a tool for that: It's called "VecDeq"

"It might take a long time to look at any element but I'll make it up with all the merges, inserts, and splits I'll be doing" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

LOOK at what Functional Programmers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the LISP machines & tape readers we built for them (This is REAL Computer Science, done by REAL Computer Scientists)

???????????

"Hello I would like element.next.next.next.next.next.next.next.next please"

They have played us for absolute fools

[paulfrankjuliusthemonkey]

HOW TO FEEL YOUR FEELINGS, 2021, by Yumi Sakugawa

[books-tears]

Okay girliiees.. Where is the thread that had free websites for downloading textbooks?

[theambitiouswoman]

[life-in-the-freefall]

[mjalti]

I love the energy of multiplying by 0. God that bitch is so powerful. She said “shut Up. actually.” and everyone stayed on MUTE

[elu-xx]

I'm not sure if it's common knowledge and I'm the last one knowing about it BUT. Today I found a site where there are a bunch of courses for FREE, NO REGISTRATION from MIT. Like, you can just go there, choose a course (or more) click on download course and you have a folder with HTML pages where you can download lecture notes, assignments, videos. Ofc they won't give you any certificate/degree but there are real things from MIT for free.

Anyway here there's the link: https://ocw.mit.edu/search/

[alt-izzycodes-deactivated202512]

@hezalife I wanted to make a post about this because my answer was longer than what I could put in a reply comment! The comment was about this post I made about the project ideas I have saved in my notes app on my phone!

Okay to answer the question, I get a bunch of ideas from literally everywhere. Here are some of the ways I come up with ideas:

Hobbies/interests I have and think of a way to make a web app/program/web page out of it. E.g. I like playing Minecraft, Pokemon, Stardew Valley, The Sims etc so I would thing of ideas around those games and create a programming project out of it.

Get the stereotypical “beginners” project ideas and expand on that. Calculator? How do I make it better, more advanced! To-do list? Don’t like basic, add more and more features to it. Text-based RPG console game? Make it more complex. Stuff like that.

Same with the other point above but add a theme to it. Hello Kitty version (my go-to theme since I started programming…)

I follow people on GitHub and Twitter that share their projects and I think of something similar or get inspiration from them and think “Okay, how do I make myself and better?” Sometimes not even better but how would I tackle that project myself.

What would make my life a little bit easier - I made TumblrTextTint generate the code needed for formatting colours in text for me. I coded it and I use it. Don’t care if someone in the past did it already, I sat down and coded my own one. It’s all experience and a good feeling in the end~!

Since I’m all for experimenting and gaining experience with programming, I also follow some tutorials on YouTube and from that’s programming blogs online. I don’t like following the instructions exactly, I like to add my own twist!

Get stuck? Use those online generators to give you a prompt on a theme or a whole idea for a next project.

I have a blog and I like to add pages and changes to the theme a bit so I make a whole ass project out of it. “Build a navigation page”, “Build an About Me page” etc.

Things I use a lot and create a project idea from it e.g. I have a lot of Tumblr-related project ideas because I use Tumblr a lot. Find something you use and do a lot and create an idea from it to work on.

Hope this answers your question!! Sorry, it’s a long post!

[hayacode-deactivated20250126]

I come across a great site to learn coding, I don’t see a lot of people talking about it tho. (There is an app too!)

This site has python 101 for free (and many another, tho course from 102 and up aren’t free)

Its has a cute design and great at explaining the small details that some teachers don’t explain ✨

There is also many exercises in each chapter of the lessons.

You can check more about it from there official site ✨

Progate | Learn to code, learn to be creative.

Progate is an online platform to learn programming. Learn to build your own apps and services.

Happy coding you all 🫶🏻

[narwhalsarefalling]

oh yeah have i ever told yall of the academic war i have been an unwilling soilder in for the past two years

[narwhalsarefalling]

okay SO. i have two professors that both teach this one subject, but different classes. they have different last names, so i didnt know this at first and espically since they are academic RIVELS at my school, but they are MARRIED. but for the past 8 years they have been in an academic WAR of geospatical sciences data. more accurately, the raster vs vector data debate. i am personally on the side of "both have their pros and cons and can be utalizied to the utmost efficency" but both professors are like, DEADLOCKED in insistanting one is better then the other

so, professor A is my mentor. i like him a lot, and he was the main person that taught me the most abotu Eris and ArcGIS. professor B is a professor i had one for class, and shes nice and knows a lot of little tricks about Eris programming but mostly relies on arcMAP because shes the raster data professor.

and THESE MOTHERFUCKERS. have written no less then 30 papers that is basically like a "re: re: re: re: re: re: vector data is better then raster fuck you" but like, Professionally. and they leave stupid notes in the footnotes that read "Reguardless of Professor A's opinions reguarding the efficency of Vector data, Raster data has a more efficant polygon computing rate and is the most commonly used program on interplantaring mapping" and its HILARIOUS

[narwhalsarefalling]

ive read all of their papers, and its basically like reading an email chain between a married couple arguing over the colors of the kitchen backsplash for their new home. its HILARIOUS. but obviously, because of their differnet last names and because they act like they HATE each other, NOT VERY MANY PEOPLE REALIZES THEYRE MARRIED

until like LAST WEEK

[narwhalsarefalling]

professor B publishes a paper that casually drops the word "husband"

and obviously all the students are like "oh i didnt know u were married!" because we read that shit like how white suburban mothers read People Magazine

[narwhalsarefalling]

and shes like "yeah, its Professor A"

[narwhalsarefalling]

and we all FLIPPED. THE FUCK. OUT

[narwhalsarefalling]

we thought the framed picture of the two of them on professor A's desk was ironic because hes that type of guy

[narwhalsarefalling]

like, you gotta undestand. these two have gotten into YELLING matches in hallways. these two refuse to go onto trips with each other. but apparently they have a system where they quite LITERALLY leave all of their work at work and drive home in seperate cars and literally NEVER mention work at home. it is SO funny

[beez-n-crackers]

[non-ducor-duco-woman-deactivate]

I know you want to sleep in but you have to wake up early. I know you don't like the taste, but you have to brush your teeth in the morning. I know that you want to rest, but you're not where you want yet. I know it's warm in your bed but you have to step in the cold. I know the water is cold but you have to wash your face in the morning.  I know you feel sad and alone but you have to do it anyway. I know you don't feel like it but you have to do that workout. I know it's not always tasty but you have to eat healthy. I know it's boring but you have to stick to a routine. I know you want to spend it but you have to save that money. I know you are tired but you have to stick to your skincare routine. I know you are tired but you still have to finish that assignment. I know you want to go to sleep but you still haven't done everything that's on your to do list. I know you are tired but YOU HAVE TO DO IT TIRED. I know you are hurt, but you will heal. I know it's uncomfortable what I just told you but you have to be leading a boring, disciplined and uninteresting life if you want to achieve your dream! STAY FOCUSED!