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  • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/why-im-less-than-infinitely-hostile

    tldr: there are some legitimate use cases. But not in the first world. And they are unrelated to what crypt-bros are trying to sell.

    disclaimer 1: the javascript for the comments is really bad and may freeze your browser

    disclaimer 2: while the ideas in the article are interesting, they are flawed (or at least debatable). See comment-section for details.

  • user shouting

    user: "YOU MUST IMPLEMENT XYZ!!!! IT'S ESSENTIAL FOR MY USECASE"

    answer: "Thanks for your feed back. We accept pull requests. "

    and the user was never heard from again.

  • Interesting how college ruined your love for programming

    it was probably the general pressure and depression.

    and work got it back

    the costumers and the colleague were nice people. I enjoyed solving actual real-life problems.

    Studying Computer Science constantly fed me with new interesting ideas, and I still had more time to play around with those ideas.

    after my first job, I went back to college (uni?) to get my masters. There I had lots of fun implementing some of the theoretical stuff.

  • what kind of projects or whatever can i do to have fun again without feeling stressed.

    • Write programs that scratch your own itch.
    • write bots for communities you care about.
    • write userscripts/browserextentions
    • do programming/hacking challenges

    (for stuff that is always online, like a bot, or a webservice, I recommend getting a dedicated computer, like a raspberry pi or a small vps)

    also some general recommendation

    • keep you goals small and tangible. If a thing takes more than one sitting to complete, it will add to your stress when you add the remainder to your todo list.
    • do the simplest thing, that could possibly work.
    • when doing new stuff, use chatgpt to come up with a plan/boilerplate/demo/2nd opinion.

    from personal experience: before I went to college, I had lots of fun doing programming challenges. During college I lost all interest in programming. At my first real job, I regained my love for programming, when I started programming things, that actual people need to improve their daily work. Since then I enjoy programming for work, as well as in my free time.