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Tough Decisions (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 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.