• vithigar@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    I’m the primary developer for a third party tool for Elite Dangerous and this is basically my entire thought process when I want to work on it.

    I could work on Observatory…

    Or I could play some Elite…

    Or I could just stare at my screen ineffectually for several hours.

    Staring at the screen wins frighteningly often.

    • ulterno@programming.dev
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      6 months ago

      I came back to playing a few weeks ago and absolutely stopped working on the 3rd party tool for X4 that I was making.

      Now, to get back to making programs, I am going to completely stop playing for a while. Because when I start dong something, I feel like doing another thing and then another and it goes on and the day is over.

      I also tend to be stuck thinking sometimes, whether to make the program I want, to put on my CV or to complete my resume website and spend a few minutes of staring at the screen, until I just go make some food.