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I’m genuinely curious how people have time to do this. I feel less and less sure of my abilities the more I see wonderful stuff like. I can’t imagine the effor

I’m genuinely curious how people have time to do this. I feel less and less sure of my abilities the more I see wonderful stuff like. I can’t imagine the effort involved in this. Someone did mention this takes advantage of prior work just rerendering in ascii and mapping to procs but that’s not a negligible amount of work. How long did this take? I feel like I know nothing and I’ve been in this industry for more than I’d like to say. This is awesome but I feel incredibly stupid.

0x0mer 2y ago
First of all, thank you for the kind words :) Secondly, don't feel bad! I'm sure you know much much more than you give yourself credit for. This took about a full weekend plus another day, and a few more days of working here and there when I have time. But as was written somewhere else in the comments and as I wrote myself in the README, the hard work of making Doom more portable was done by the incredible project doom-generic which I forked: https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric
jylam 2y ago
"I’m genuinely curious how people have time to do this." Let's say you work 8 hours per day, 1 hour commuting. That's 15 hours left, you need to eat and sleep and bath and whatever. That leaves 15 hours because who cares about eating or sleeping or taking a bath. More than enough time to do this in 3 years. Alright, enough time there, I need to finish my raycaster on 6502.
simonjgreen 2y ago
I look at these things, and remember a time before I had children
- mjfisher 2y ago
  I kind of do, but the lack of sleep has killed my short term, long term and working memory. The time before is hazy.
mwcz 2y ago
Boy is that a familiar feeling. It's the programmer version of shaving away at one's self-worth by looking at friends' Instagram-perfect home photos. I think most of us feel it from time to time. There are ways to combat it, but it's a totally normal side effect of hanging around smart people.

0x0mer 2y ago

First of all, thank you for the kind words :) Secondly, don't feel bad! I'm sure you know much much more than you give yourself credit for. This took about a full weekend plus another day, and a few more days of working here and there when I have time. But as was written somewhere else in the comments and as I wrote myself in the README, the hard work of making Doom more portable was done by the incredible project doom-generic which I forked: https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric

jylam 2y ago

"I’m genuinely curious how people have time to do this." Let's say you work 8 hours per day, 1 hour commuting. That's 15 hours left, you need to eat and sleep and bath and whatever. That leaves 15 hours because who cares about eating or sleeping or taking a bath. More than enough time to do this in 3 years. Alright, enough time there, I need to finish my raycaster on 6502.

simonjgreen 2y ago

I look at these things, and remember a time before I had children

mjfisher 2y ago
I kind of do, but the lack of sleep has killed my short term, long term and working memory. The time before is hazy.

mwcz 2y ago

Boy is that a familiar feeling. It's the programmer version of shaving away at one's self-worth by looking at friends' Instagram-perfect home photos. I think most of us feel it from time to time. There are ways to combat it, but it's a totally normal side effect of hanging around smart people.