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What's doomcoding? (It's not mentioned in the article and it doesn't appear to be a related term when I google it.) It sounds negative ("doom" + "we should limi

What's doomcoding? (It's not mentioned in the article and it doesn't appear to be a related term when I google it.) It sounds negative ("doom" + "we should limit ourselves" from it) but everything you said in the context before that sounds good.

kyzcdev 2mo ago
Coding for pleasure I mean. We start a project and then get bored. Like Doomscrolling, for pleasure.
- nsyne 2mo ago
  I don't think I agree with this. Doomscrolling has a negative connotation - of wasting your time and being unhealthy for the mind. I don't see coding the same way. Sometimes, I code to finish a project and it's a major milestone and I feel accomplished. Other times, I just code something because it sounds like I'd enjoy it and it's fun. I feel fulfilled nonetheless, even if it goes nowhere. I wouldn't equate it to doomscrolling.
  - em3rgent0rdr 2mo ago
    "Pridecoding"?
    - jewel 2mo ago
      "Hobbyhacking"?
    - ml_giant 2mo ago
      Maybe just “coding”?
      - kaycebasques 2mo ago
        "Creating"
  - kyzcdev 2mo ago
    Yes coding itself is not like doomscrolling. I wanted to use that term because I lost so much time bu trying to reinvent stuff. I wanted to make a game, and had an idea, but then I thought "why not making a game framework so I make my game". It was fun to build a game framework by mixing PixiJS, Rapier2D, ECS, writing my own loop logic and state management but then I lost the motivation. I just coded a framework for pleasure but at the start my point was making a game. The desire to build something can cause our idea to be dropped.
foobarian 2mo ago
I took it to mean the frameworky coding you kind of get sucked into when you start a project when you realize off-the-shelf libraries are flawed or you could do so much better. Like the old trope of getting a task to write a billing system but first writing a full text mode UI framework, menu system, etc.

kyzcdev 2mo ago

Coding for pleasure I mean. We start a project and then get bored. Like Doomscrolling, for pleasure.

nsyne 2mo ago
I don't think I agree with this. Doomscrolling has a negative connotation - of wasting your time and being unhealthy for the mind. I don't see coding the same way. Sometimes, I code to finish a project and it's a major milestone and I feel accomplished. Other times, I just code something because it sounds like I'd enjoy it and it's fun. I feel fulfilled nonetheless, even if it goes nowhere. I wouldn't equate it to doomscrolling.
- em3rgent0rdr 2mo ago
  "Pridecoding"?
  - jewel 2mo ago
    "Hobbyhacking"?
  - ml_giant 2mo ago
    Maybe just “coding”?
    - kaycebasques 2mo ago
      "Creating"
- kyzcdev 2mo ago
  Yes coding itself is not like doomscrolling. I wanted to use that term because I lost so much time bu trying to reinvent stuff. I wanted to make a game, and had an idea, but then I thought "why not making a game framework so I make my game". It was fun to build a game framework by mixing PixiJS, Rapier2D, ECS, writing my own loop logic and state management but then I lost the motivation. I just coded a framework for pleasure but at the start my point was making a game. The desire to build something can cause our idea to be dropped.

foobarian 2mo ago

I took it to mean the frameworky coding you kind of get sucked into when you start a project when you realize off-the-shelf libraries are flawed or you could do so much better. Like the old trope of getting a task to write a billing system but first writing a full text mode UI framework, menu system, etc.