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   Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 00:21:48 JST Pissed Hippo
   All I feel like doing is making software. Sometimes I do it so much I get sick of making software. When that happens I am uncomfortable because I don't want to do anything else anymore
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     You Will Never Know Why (why@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 00:26:23 JST You Will Never Know Why

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     @sun this is why you need to fill your life with things that suck so you have less time to do the things you like
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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 00:27:29 JST Pissed Hippo

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     "why not read a book?" I read probably 5x as many books when I was young than the average person and I don't enjoy it as much anymore.
     
     "why not play a video game?" I feel like I'm wasting my life anymore when I do that.
     
     "why not socialize?" I am still borderline autistic and naturally a loner and can't socialize so much before getting really tired.
     
     "why not have sex?" gf on other side of planet currently, I am not that well endowed.
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     racist teto (teto@cawfee.club)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 00:29:36 JST racist teto

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     @sun I socialize in voice calls while playing games.
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     Slow Rodriguez (rocc@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 00:30:27 JST Slow Rodriguez

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     @sun@shitposter.world maybe you should consider what aspects of development get you so excited and try to find (or put that into) in another activity.

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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 00:31:06 JST Pissed Hippo

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     • Slow Rodriguez
     @Rocc it's making interactive things, I do also enjoy making physical things with microcontrollers but that involves coding too. maybe I can find another thing like that.
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     sim@shitposter.world's status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 00:33:14 JST sim

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     @sun What do you mean you can't just get on a plane every night to visit your gf for sex? Smh.
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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 00:33:56 JST Pissed Hippo

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     • mysterious rika
     @RikaDerufu there are a couple of new movies I want to see, but it's rare I see a new movie I want to watch. I could do that in the meantime though.
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     mysterious rika (rikaderufu@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 00:33:57 JST mysterious rika

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     Are you into movies/TV shows? That often helps me with burnout
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     受不了包 (shibao@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 00:55:37 JST 受不了包

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     @sun@shitposter.world why not shoot guns or hike in the mountains or ride a motorcycle or do woodworking?

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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 00:56:24 JST Pissed Hippo

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     @shibao I live in downtown miami I can't do any of that rn. I am moving, possibly back to Arizona so I might be able to again
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     受不了包 (shibao@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 00:57:37 JST 受不了包

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     @sun@shitposter.world many such cases. however, you're in miami right? could visit here maybe https://maps.app.goo.gl/wge3h3htFpQsFCje9

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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 00:59:05 JST Pissed Hippo

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     @shibao I swear I tried to find a place like this in the couple years I lived here, and didn't find any. what the hell
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     mothball蛾玉 (西洋巣酸の木) (moth_ball@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 01:12:29 JST mothball蛾玉 (西洋巣酸の木)

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     • Slow Rodriguez
     @sun @Rocc Maybe an analog hobby would be refreshing. Something like painting or building scale models of stuff you like (and possibly painting those scale models)
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     Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧 (jeffcliff@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 02:14:08 JST Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧

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     • deutrino
     @deutrino @sun I can use your help. And don't feel bad about sub-50-line shell scripts -- add enough of those together and the complexity and challenge will rise to whatever level you deem acceptable to you
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     deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 02:14:09 JST deutrino

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     @sun I want to make software and/or web apps so bad, and I haven't written a lick of code beyond sub-50-line shell scripts in years :(

     for me it's a cognitive chicken-and-egg, I'm not able to work on such tasks in small increments until I've been working on them every day for a long time and thus the context is still fresh, and I can't re-bootstrap into the dev headspace without either a partner for "body doubling," or long blocks of alone time living someplace where I control my sensory input

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     Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧 (jeffcliff@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 02:17:49 JST Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧

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     @sun Obviously it's hard to recreate the high of encountering socrates, nietzsche, @nousnaut or @annsterzinger for the first time -- and it's going to take more effort to really get a reward like that through the written word when you've got a large corpus in your head. But reading is like a muscle - if you're working out every day, it remains easier and the rewards are sweeter with less strenuous effort.
     
     Of course the boundaries between software, reading and math are fuzzy sometimes, but i do think they use different parts of the brain somewhat.
     
     Socializing might be too, I'm not sure.
     
     basically: keep coding, pick up a book once in awhile that is outside of what you would normally read, but be aware that the kinds of things that keep you out of a rut like this are going to be things that involve other people at the end of the day. You only have to socialize or read enough to think of something worth coding of course.
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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 02:53:56 JST Pissed Hippo

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     • Phantasm
     @phnt yeah actually a great idea, I forgot about it
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 02:53:57 JST Phantasm

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     @sun Do you have interests outside of software development? I remember that you did some DOS MIDI shenanigans months ago, so maybe something with music, perhaps old MIDI music? Or maybe some casual drawing.
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     deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 04:44:25 JST deutrino

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     • Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧

     @jeffcliff @sun my main issue is that I've been stuck for 8 years in environments which suppress my mind's ability to contain that level of complexity, I used to be a bona-fydee software engineer and have a degree in CS (undergrad, but still)

     but, I still try to help where I can. currently focusing on helping ne'er-do-wells like me get a leg up. feel free to hit me up whenever, worst I can say is no

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     Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧 (jeffcliff@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 04:44:29 JST Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧

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     @deutrino @sun i hear you on that
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 05:40:12 JST feld

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     @sun I relate to this so much :smith:
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     Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: (tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 05:40:52 JST Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:

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     “why not have sex?” gf on other side of planet currently, I am not that well endowed.

     Time to get augmented. :blobfoxgooglytrash:

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     anemone@ebiverse.social's status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 05:47:40 JST anemone

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     @sun@shitposter.world I need to stop playing video games

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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 05:47:54 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @sun i feel similarly and i'm only 23
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