I don't like writing programs just for the sake of

This desu.

Fuck recreational programming
Should also do everything in your power to avoid having to write code yourself and instead try to find code that you can put together / make slight changes to for your purposes

Not everyone likes working for free. I like programming but it's work. I can do other stuff in my free time.

>>60443498
>Code artisan

>>60443498
Recreational programming can be pretty fun.

Try programming along with some of The Coding Train videos.

Heres one (p5 is free):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGz7mv2vD6g

'Recreational' programming is probably the only kind of programming I like doing, programming as a job is depressing

>>60443477
Only recreational programming i do is game-development because I get to do graphics which is super comfy

>>60443516
Work is something that you do for money, without necessarily enjoying the end result. If you grow some imagination you can code and enjoy doing it, just like people have gardening or woodworking as hobbies

Good thread

>>60443477
this and >>60443648

>work at top tech company
>People code night and day because they love it and rock at it
>Go to 4chan
>No one likes coding unless they get money for vidya
>Half of them don't even have a job

Rly maeks u tink

>>60446845
>4chinks, the reality outside your hipster startup

>>60443573
Bumping to upvote The Coding Train.

>>60446845
I like programming but I'm forced to program shit I don't care about using tools that are shit.
I'm too inefficient and unskilled to get a job programming something I would like, using tools which I like

>>60443477
Writing useful programs is recreational for me

>>60448145
>I'm too inefficient and unskilled to get a job programming something I would like, using tools which I like

Lol, keep wasting your time playing vidya in the evenings

>>60449737
actually, in the evenings I just try to suffer through my headache and stay awake til 2am so I can go pick up my brother from work

>>60443573
yea but thats js,
Js is fun as hell so rereational programming is fun as fuck with it, but with other programming languages from what I gather is slow and boring

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I write programs and scripts for shit all the fucking time.

If I find myself doing something regularly and feel it can be accelerated, HERE COMES INSPIRATION!
Either that or making shit little game experiments to test out ideas.
Or shitposting. Pic related. All dem circles.

Written some things to accelerate code creation or working with text in general.
Such as highlight and copy whole line, duplicate line and other handy stuff like that.
Sure some of them are in most decent IDEs, but they are rarely seen outside of those.
Equally wrote some for helping with drawing (as you can see in picture).
Good example being a fairly advanced macro recorder and player. I ended up also using it to shitpost on Drawball for the last 10 years. :^)

>>60443477
I dont like writing programs unless i am getting paid to do it

>>60450211
Id like a program to sort my porn for me, something that can tell hentai from 3dpd, as well as sort my webm porn, non webm porn (into hentai and 3dpd). The sorting by file types is easy but being able to tell if a video or image is hentai would benmore difficult

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>>60449956
>Js is fun as hell

>>60450365
You'd need to do some MACHINE LEARNING for that.
I'm sure some dude on here wrote a program to do that.
I can't remember the thread it was in though.

I've wrote a basic file manager myself that just does it based on file extension (and kind of file type), then I manually tag them myself.
Currently stuff just gets sorted in to file type-> file ext
images -> [png] [gif] [jpg] [other]
AV -> [mp3/4] [avi] [webm] etc
Then I will make a _sorted folder which will show at the top of them all and contain them in grouped folders
images -> _sorted -> [anime] [games] [people] etc
AV -> _sorted -> [tv] [film] [anime] [games] [music] [music video] [audio] [video]

I MIGHT do the machine learning thing one day, mainly for the fun of learning it. I have been looking in to it occasionally.
It's not like I have a lack of files to train it on. I have too fucking many files.
[desire to smash intensifies]