I -almost- made it :D
Almost…
I like programming and learning about stuff I find interesting. Particularly interested in functional programming and typing systems.
I have a background in Cognitive Science/Psychology and Mathematics. Sadly halted due to physical and mental health issues arising from getting Covid. Which unfortunately hit me quite hard back on 2020. I'm still dealing with some sequels so I would prefer working from home.
I find it fun trying to find insights that cut across disciplines. I tend to favor the "theoretical" side of things. But I also try to get as much hands-on experience as possible.
I am writing a blog. Trying to share what I learn, and that others might find useful. I try to focus on the unique things I can bring to the table. Hoping to add value to the life of other developers. I always have a thousand ideas racing through my mind, so I don't have any trouble coming up with ideas on what to write. If any, I have a hard time cutting down on the number of things I want to write about :D
On a personal note. I have always been quite solitary and introverted. But I don't think I'm shy. I love videogames and started programming because I wanted to make my own.
How do you people do it?
I recently started doing the twitter thing again and I cannot help but wonder how the hell are some of you doing 100 consecutive days of anything.
Well, I was writing everyday. Hence the now-petulant name of this series. I wanted to see how far I could make it, tough.
2 weeks. Two measly weeks was all I could muster.
But I learned a few things. So here's the obligatory "what I learned by..." post of Hashnode tradition.
Or whatever.
It was way easier than I thought
This one was surprising to me. I usually have a very hard time writing, much less so doing it constantly. I used to have to write a lot during my time at university. So I know I can write.
But doing it out of my own free will? That was really something that I wasn't expecting.
I speculate that the context -a blog, with feedback in the form of comments- has a lot to do with it.
Academic writing is very solitary and feedback-deprived as it is. I used to have a bad case of writing-about-weird-stuff-even-for-philosophers. So, expectedly, I used to get very little feedback.
We are talking about a "you missed a comma" once or twice a year.
I wish I was kidding!
Seriously, how do you do it?
My brain comes equipped with two modes of processing time.
RIGHT NOW!
and
NOT RIGHT NOW!
And I have this very nasty thing that makes it so that anything that graduates from "now" ceases to form part of my umwelt. With a moratorium of at least two hours. But it can be days.
Yet my brain figures that any chirping birb on the background is a matter of national urgency.
As important as whatever JavaScript I could be typing. At any moment's notice.
If not more! Because... birbs!
I learned a ton
But thanks to whatever magic this twitter-blog thingy I'm doing, I have kept way more productive than pretty much ever.
Which is great! I have learned a lot, just by writing about it.
What is not great is that I am still very unable to keep track of those damn days of code.
...
Epilogue.
No seriously. How do you do it?
Like seriously.
It's starting to stop being funny :(
...
See you... tomorrow?
P.S. Don’t take any of this too seriously. Sardonic smugness is my way of coping! :P
*Obligatory beg-for-money section*
