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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • Perpetuates the false dichotomy of a linear political spectrum of either liberal or conservative and that in and of itself is one of the reasons for these trends

    the graph explicitly takes 1 dimension of the spectrum to look at it in isolation. This is exactly what single graphs do best.

    which this survey completely ignores, conveniently

    have you looked at the source of the graph?




  • 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.