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I have tried for 20 years to get into coding, and among adhd and having 10 million other projects going on, just could never get it beyond absolute basics and knowing some differences between languages.

Now it seems every tutorial I see is really just clicking around in a gui. Very little actual typing of code, which is the part I actually find cool and interesting.

So my question is, since everyone on lemmy is a programmer, what do you guys actually do? Is it copying and pasting tons of code? Is it fixing small bugs in Java for a website like "the drop down field isn't loading properly on this form"?

I just dont get what "a full stack developer sufficient in sql and python" actually does. Also i dont know if that sentence even made sense!

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[–] 18107@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I make game mods as a hobby. 90% of the time is taken with deciding what to write, 5% is actually typing, and the other 2500% just seems to vanish without a trace.

Knowing what to type always takes much more time and effort than actually typing. IDE autocomplete has increased this difference further, and AI promises to do this even more (although it seems to increase typing time at the moment).

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I make game mods as a hobby.

That sounds very interesting. Would you mind if I hijacked this thread to ask you about what kind of mods do you make and for what games ?

[–] 18107@aussie.zone 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I've tried to choose my favourite mod for each game. My other mods should be searchable from these links.

FlexFOV - Minecraft. Increases the FOV up to 360 degrees.
It took 3 years to get a basic version working, then several more to make it properly usable (not just a cubemap). YouTube demo

Stormtrooper - PULSAR: Lost Colony. Significantly reduces the player's accuracy.
All the mods are hosted on the community Discord rather than a mod hosting site.

I originally made Item Swap for Void Crew. The developers thought it was a good idea and decided to add it to the game (with permission).
I decided that I could do even better and made Faster Swap — modding the devs implementation of my own mod.
I have another improvement idea just in case they implement this mod too.

Full Auto Multitool - Jump Space. Hopefully prevents RSI from rapidly clicking.
Jump Space uses IL2CPP, so modding is significantly harder until the devs choose to release mono files.

Honk - Derail Valley. YouTube demo

I did not make all of the mods registered to NihilityShift. You should be able to check the author(s) on GitHub for each mod. All of my mods are open source, though the source may not always be up to date.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago

Thanks ! Learned about some cool looking games too