1mo ago

Might as well be ADHD slogan

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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}"
- Progress on ticket: 0% Progress on things that bothered me while starting ticket 273%
  
  I put really boring tasks into the backlog to motivate my developers to do everything else faster.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0
- “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)
- And don’t get me started on maintenance and dependencies. On a big enough project that’s a job for life
We don't do this not because it is hard,
But because we thought it would be hard
- Me and Fromsoft games.
- I do this not because it is easy, but because I am hard.
I need this on my tombstone 😭
This is appropriately on the wall at Rich Rebuilds.
No ADHD (That I know of) but sometimes coming up with a way to automate a task is actually fun so even if it takes longer than just doing the task its worth it to have to do less of that task in the future.

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