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Yep. Key thing is to make small game projects that you aim to finish in well under a year. Once you embark on a big project and feature creep sets in, you’re back to avoiding programming.
What libraries or engine do you recommend to build on for fun of programming?
I took a break and did a lot of reflecting. I bought a workbook in career changes and started working through it. After a bit I started getting the itch to code again, so I did a Udemy course in a programming area I had done previously and really enjoyed but had gotten away from.
After a while I realized I was ready to go back to work. Before I did, I tried to figure out what made me so miserable previously. In my case it was the poor decision-making processes with unclear ownership that made me feel like I was always seeking permission to get things done. I also decided I didn’t want to work on large projects with untyped Python. When I started interviewing, I decided not to be picky or make too many assumptions in the early stages of the process. Once I started interviewing, I really honed in on these things and asked a lot of questions about it. I ended up at a small startup that’s doing reasonably well with really high velocity. I feel like I have a conversation about some design thing in the morning and I’m well on my way to implementing it in the afternoon.
Yea, it sucks to build your own framework for your own app -- but also, the patterns of this model are well known and visible in 100s of other frameworks. You don't actually have to use $COOL_THING to get the specific advantages of $COOL_THING that your company/project needs.
It's very hard to weigh the issues of cost in a) how much unknown cost will there be fighting our framework and b) how much unknown cost will there be in building our own framework.
It's been my experience that discipline in choosing these vendor-packages, and choosing fewer, and choosing more to build in-house has, over a longer period of time, been a better investment. However, it also requires a good architect to be around for a long time. When team-leaders are bouncing around on short time-frames (Too much vendor-driven-churn and bloat -- YAGNI!
2010: edit html button 1. install ftp/sourcesafe 2. connect to url and authenticate 3. edit button 4. upload 2023: edit html button 1. install git 2. setup git credentials in terminal 3. setup git ssh key in terminal and browsers 4. use internal bootstrap tool to install node 5. macos no longer supports bash, spend 10 mins switching everything to zsh 6. install npm 7. try to clone and install the code with npm i 8. 2…
The red tape is garroting us. My wife's dev environment VMs are 'remediated' at 8pm regardless if she's using them or not - there is no override policy - and the company is singing the success story of saving 40 dollars in licensing. At another corporation, it can take several weeks to learn how to fill out the IAM role and permission boundaries to allow a new app to run - and a governance board has to review it and…
Personally, I made the choice to join big tech and collect a bigger check. The work can be slow and boring, but it's a conscious tradeoff I am making - money instead of fun.
The red tape is garroting us. My wife's dev environment VMs are 'remediated' at 8pm regardless if she's using them or not - there is no override policy - and the company is singing the success story of saving 40 dollars in licensing. At another corporation, it can take several weeks to learn how to fill out the IAM role and permission boundaries to allow a new app to run - and a governance board has to review it and…
> " All of this, to dabble in code " I'm not a professional programmer, and when my laptop takes 10 minutes to start moving the mouse cursor smoothly after waking from a weekend suspend (today!), I'm pointing fingers at you all, the professional "dabblers" who don't understand computers, don't understand firewalls, don't understand databases, don't understand algorithms, don't understand garbage collectors, don't und…
The red tape is garroting us. My wife's dev environment VMs are 'remediated' at 8pm regardless if she's using them or not - there is no override policy - and the company is singing the success story of saving 40 dollars in licensing. At another corporation, it can take several weeks to learn how to fill out the IAM role and permission boundaries to allow a new app to run - and a governance board has to review it and…
There is no value in constant-surveillance antivirus software on a modern Mac — if your IT requires this, run far, far away
Customer wants to see: Yes, Company X has Y anti-virus product on all devices.
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The only time I coded anything in the last 3 years (been a manager) was during a hackathon -- I made a videogame that integrated our technology in a novel way to expose a new market segment. It was by far the most engaged I have ever been to the extent that I booked weekend nannies around the clock to get more time put into it, probably 130 hours spent that week. The end result was something I was actually proud of,…
Did you use something like Unreal or Unity for this, or start at a more foundational level and deal directly with graphics APIs etc.? I ask as a matter of curiosity and personal interest--it's something I'd like to learn as a hobbyist, but my knowledge is limited to simple OpenGL tutorials and the (relatively speaking) watered-down Graphics course I took in College years back.
The red tape is garroting us. My wife's dev environment VMs are 'remediated' at 8pm regardless if she's using them or not - there is no override policy - and the company is singing the success story of saving 40 dollars in licensing. At another corporation, it can take several weeks to learn how to fill out the IAM role and permission boundaries to allow a new app to run - and a governance board has to review it and…
Fun to read this comment, as I'm part of the team that deployed the exact same measure as for your wife: we now shutdown dev environments each day at 8PM. We decided to do so because over the weeks, we saw that a lot of devs "forgot" about their dev envs and they were up & running for 6+ months for absolutely nothing. On the other side, we are constantly requested to reduce infra costs, and dev environments (even unu…