Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️the world needs more recreational programming.
like, was this the most optimal or elegant way to code this?
no, but it was the most fun to write.
cause like, yeah, it's good to know how to write optimal code and how to make it elegant and easy to maintain, sure!
but one thing you have to maintain is your brain. If you're constantly driving your programming brain at maximum speed, maximum awareness of all possible caveats and vulnerabilities, always considering "how will I maintain this code in ten years time?" you're going to burn yourself out.
You're associating programming with a high-stress high-attention activity. That's going to make programming something that's categorized in your brain as no fun, never relaxing, never something you do just cause it would be interesting... you're going to start dreading it, even just a little. "oh well, let's get this over with."
That's not a good way to think about it in the long run.
we often say that programming is more an art than a science, but we need to treat it like one too.
Sometimes you need to paint a sunset not because someone paid you to paint a sunset, but because it'd be fun to paint a sunset.
we need a bob ross of programming
PBS's The Joy Of Programming
niche witch with a 🐝@foone except every episode ends with the host screaming
Juliet (Ryel), Rollerskating Elf 🏳️⚧️@foone happy little subroutines
bob therieau@foone Oooh. I know a guy.
@foone I like this a lot. A project every season? You follow along and you're pointed to learning resources on a PBS landing page for the show. This would be nice resource for resource-strapped schools.
@therieau yeah it's the kind of thing the BBC would do in the 80s
@foone Shit, we could do this on Twitch, but we wouldn't have nearly the audience. Think how many people have broadcast-ready facilities in their homes. Show, round-up show, podcast, learning guides. This could be a big deal.
gunstick
nuxi@foone closest I've seen is the Coding Train guy, but he's less Bob Ross, more Richard Simmons
Alexandre B A Villares 🐍
i eat beees 
lena
don'tbe,evil@foone PBR the beer of programming?
Raven667@foone I've played with Scratch a little with the kid and that could be a fun show, just animating the sprites and interacting in interesting ways. I'm not sure how many episodes you can do, but neither was Bob Ross I'm sure.
Correl Roush@foone
Until this becomes a thing, I'll just keep rewatching Abelson and Sussman's SICP lectures.
Until this becomes a thing, I'll just keep rewatching Abelson and Sussman's SICP lectures.
Chris [list of emoji]...happy little binary trees...
Also: this is why I like writing my little FOSS projects. There's absolutely no external pressure so I can just explore the problem. It's the good-parts-only version of programming.
sebastian ⚡@foone That may not be the output we wanted, but some random chunk of memory. Still it's very beautiful in its own unique way. Every chunk of memory deserves a little time on stdout if you think about it. Happy little off by one errors.
Z̈oé@sebastian @foone this is literally what Coding Adventures by Sebastian Lague on youtube are
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@uint8_t @sebastian @foone Sebastian was the person that jumped to mind as soon as I saw "Bob Ross of programming". such a soothing voice.
Rick
blackmad@foone misread this as PSB’s Joy of Programming and now I’m looking forward to a public service broadcasting concept album / song cycle about such a thing. I can almost hear the whooshing sound of a reel-to-reel warming up opening the piece …
kid37@foone There's no bugs. There are just happy little coding accidents.
mbrdev@foone I vote for @shanselman to host
alarmingly large glaceon girl 🍓@foone i know your whole point is that we shouldn't only ever try to be practical, but as an additional bonus, i genuinely think all the hours of code golf i did for fun have made me a better programmer
not that any "normal" code i ever write looks golfed at all, but you learn so much about a language when you're digging into the weeds looking for ways to save bytes
Greg WilsonMozilla's @[email protected] has done more than 350 episodes of "The Joy of Coding" and they're great https://mikeconley.ca/joc/ cc @foone
Nire Bryce@foone
the guy writing Komorebi (win11 tiling window manager) has this going on kinda https://youtu.be/0zX289iBOd4
the guy writing Komorebi (win11 tiling window manager) has this going on kinda https://youtu.be/0zX289iBOd4
Round Windows are Cooked - Let's Bring Back Square Borders | Rust Live Programming 🦀 | Win 11 TWM
Walter van Holst@foone Happy little binary trees?
Nelson@foone Was this why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby?
⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe@skyfaller @foone yes yes yes.
RedstoneLP2@foone "we don't write bugs, just happy unintended features"
john spurling@foone happy little binary search trees
Casey Kolderup@foone https://thecodingtrain.com/ is maybe a little more Levar Burton in tone but is about making something so I associate it with Bob Ross
Jeff Caldwell
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.@foone I wish I could do this, but I'm no good at "patter", especially while I'm coding.
I also use a font size that I have been told is "insanely small", and I suspect video compression will make it unreadable.
But, I don't mind showing off my ~~mistakes~~ happy little syntax trees and I've (re)started coding for myself several hours each day.
I really should find an PeerTube instance or something and start streaming; I can work on video quality and viewer interaction later, I guess.
Kevin Riggle@BoydStephenSmithJr @foone Sebastian Lague is incredibly good at this and also yes you should stream Boyd https://www.youtube.com/@SebastianLague
I think I'm live: https://video.infosec.exchange/w/hmradyAMD5rJ6LKWVUiJLk
This is the first time I've streamed with OBS in years, and the first time I've streamed with #PeerTube at all.
Joy of #PureScript Programming (testing)
Alex Feinman@foone I keep meaning to start a YT channel "This Old Code"...because one needs to exist...
SuperIlu@dec_hl Tony has enough on his hands with machining...
Grant Hutchinson@foone I think Bill Atkinson was always the Bob Ross of programming.
The Witch of Crow Briar@foone This is also a part of why doing it in a corporate setting inevitably leads to burn out. It’s a “high stress, high attention” situation by default
Alistair BuxtonWriting elegant code is fun. Throwing together a bunch of unmaintainable crap because you are on a deadline and management doesn't care is what burned me out.
dan 💾@foone 10 PRINT “THIS!”
20 GOTO 10
20 GOTO 10
myrmepropagandistTwas this, that a child saw, that hooked me forever on the code.
speskk
Dan Piponi@foone I'm in it for the bits that make my head explode. I try to keep that stuff away from work. But exploding heads, especially mine, are fun.
redvelvet@foone agreed, i would love to learn coding in a non-proffesional setting,,,
Bee O'Problem 
@foone my favorite IOCCC (obfuscated C code competition) entry is the flight sim that's in the shape of an airplane.
Oriel Jutty 
Andrew@barubary @beeoproblem @foone I really like the stereogram generator whose code is itself a stereogram
G. Gibson@foone I suggest Ruby for elegance
Esther Alter@foone we have that, it's called procgen
Shib Willoughby@foone This is me when I get to manipulate the DOM with vanilla JS.
document.getElementbyId()?
element.classList.add()?
element.addEventListener("click", doThing)?
Yes pls let me chew on this juicy, logical, non obfuscated code! 🤤