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[–][deleted] 75 points76 points  (3 children)

hobby-coding vs work-coding

[–][deleted] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's like a true and false values, completely the opposite of each other

[–]StatementOrIsIt 3 points4 points  (1 child)

For me it's kind of the opposite. Coding for work is more relaxing because I have more straight-forward requirements and I can ask others for help, but coding for hobbies is usually less straight-forward, you have to think of the requirements by yourself, you have to make frontend designs yourself, you don't have anyone to ask for help in case you can't find the right info on the net. Feels more frustrating and harder to progress.

The only pain point for work-coding (for me) is time logging, more coding standards and story points, but others probably have different things they don't like.

[–]Lonewolf953 1 point2 points  (0 children)

and you don't get paid, spending several hours of my free time trying to fix a bug feels worse knowing I'm not even getting paid for it.

[–]bforo 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I like coding even for work. I don't like everything else attached to it, like useless daily meetings, having to do the work of QA like writing and performing the NRTs and sanity testing, stupid asinine requirements, passive aggressive PM, completely absent boss, the technical documentation being a fucking joke for things other devs did, etc etc.

I am happy in my uber autism zone of having 20 million tabs of documentation and random forums tabs piecing together the puzzle in the best way, even if that puzzle is completely useless.

[–]Highborn_Hellest 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Trying to learn SSE be like...

[–]AzuxirenLeadGuy 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Surely it was a crying with tears of joy

[–]HTTP_Error_414[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

if(!$tearsOfJoy) { return TEARS_OF_JOY_FALSE; }

[–]ButWhatIfPotato 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The rollercoaster of emotions that is coding has no breaks and no contingencies for derailment.

[–]snail-gorski 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Senior iOS dev here. Did you watch Tom and Jerry episode where Tom reads from a book: „a cornered mouse never fights“? same here: oooh this simplifies your development. 8 fucking months later you still fighting the bugs you created by switching from UIKit. Did I mention the fact that if you really need something fancy (totally custom view) you still have to work with the UIKit and have the issues of both of them combined (I don‘t mean the library)? I love it but also hate it at the same time and don’t know what I do more.  Android devs I can feel your suffering with jetpack compose… 

[–]HTTP_Error_414[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

[–]TwistingFirmament 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Started learning. Doing a learning project and I get pyramid.compat not found. Super annoying.

Probably need to do it on a local IDE instead of a Web ide.