Built an app and it accidentally got traction with a small but appreciative user base. Now they're distracting me from leaving it half finished and moving on to the next thing.
this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2026
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Remember you wanted to dust off those guitar skills? No time like the present... You should buy some weed to help.
And it really can help with creativity. I use it all the time to make LEGO MOCs.
Well, they're there for my personal enjoyment, not anyone elses
and afterwards personal shame
skill issue
Looks like he's living the dream
but where is the joke
Well it's either a joke or a personal attack, pick one
wait, is this not what everyone's projects are like?
Speaking for (not) myself, nope. Or so I hear
Its an analogy for my life. This is exactly what my hobby projects look like.
Yep, too real.
It's after the next strip.
behind his back
Adhd, pretty much.
Hardly. Starting a project is often pretty straightforward, the possibilities are boundless, and the vision can be fuzzy without interfering with the initial work.
As soon as you get to the more complex and less fun bits of the project - reconciling flaws in the initial design, repeatedly failing in execution of a step in the operation, finding a missing piece, being forced to backtrack because you missed a step, debugging, validating results, beautifying the final project, documentation - its normal to get frustrated, lose enthusiasm, and shift focus. You don't have to be diagnosed with anything to experience anxiety, boredom, or ennui. These are universal human conditions.
If anything, I'd argue a certain level of OCD is necessary to get a project over the finish line. If you're not a touch masochistic, nothing will ever get done.
Did you just “everyone’s a little ADHD” me? For the record, I was only suggesting that this is something an ADHD person would understand very well without intending to imply that the OP was ADHD.
Did you just “everyone’s a little ADHD” me?
No.
Yup, this comic accurately describes my office and garage.
Am I a bad engineer if I've never even tried to build a single personal project on my own, like I only code when I'm paid for it, other than that it almost never comes to mind, unless I want to solve some small problem of mine occasionally, since getting laid off I keep thinking I'll work on some projects using popular frameworks and languages to add to my github and maybe mention on my resume but I can't bring myself to even start anything, I just want a boring 9 to 5 job, why did this industry turn into this passion nonsense, nobody asks a dentist or an accountant if they do their respective work as a hobby in their free time, they still get hired and paid for their jobs
This encompasses my entire Minecraft experience for the last 15 years.
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me saying to my boss that being on lemmy.world is my "side project"
I need to go put this up in my skoolie.
...I just want have a go at it to know if I can do it in practice in case I needed it one day...finishing up is left as an exercise to the reader...