• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    ADHD and programming is a fun mix.

    “We do this because once it’s automated it’ll be so much faster, I swear! We’ll make up the dev time in… ~5 years if no further adjustments are needed~”

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      6 days ago

      Progress on ticket: 0% Progress on things that bothered me while starting ticket 273%

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      6 days ago

      “I just want to use rsync and inotify to automatically sync my data to my NAS so I never again have to forget backing up before doing something stupid. I hate coding and I’m terrible at it but it’ll be fine! It’s 2 commands, HOW HARD COULD IT BE? I’m sure 10 lines of bash can do it.”

      Aaaaaand there went my whole weekend 💀 💀 💀

      AGAIN

      Why do I keep doing this to myself? 😭

      (But it works! Kinda. Well it’s a matter of perspective, who can say what objectively defines the concept of “working”? It does SOMETHING. So technically it does works. CQFD)

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      6 days ago

      And don’t get me started on maintenance and dependencies. On a big enough project that’s a job for life