If you’re on Android, you could also set up a work profile and run the VPN with a different connection, and have 3 there.

I really enjoyed this so much more than I expected to, and was so disappointed when I hit the point the that they had developed up to.

It’s not a perfect game, has a few flaws I found, but the worldbuilding was somethign special. Excited for this.

You’re not wrong, and I can’t believe how spot on you are. I do enjoy dev, and it is something I do in my spare time, I did break the family computer by tinkering and Dad did tell me not to do it again, and I’m still chasing that excitement of the “Mr. T” calculator app I wrote in Haskell 15 years ago.

I think I just want my job to be just a job the days, instead of this pressure to keep growing, learning the latest tech and keeping up with changes, and then needing to have a portfolio or personal projects to show that I’m still capable.

Maybe I’m just feeling this way at the moment because I’m job searching and it’s so disparaging to be asked what favourite blogs are or the link to my portfolio website or github, or my favourite new feature of language X, and I just think I’m not that person. I’ve tried reading the books in my spare time and setting up an AWS dev account, but I just don’t care.

Sorry, I just think your post set something off in me about how weird it is that we make this expectation of ourselves only in this industry it seems, and I think the pressure might be a bit unproductive at times.

Why do we devs have this weird need to do our jobs in our free time. We put this weird career specific cultural pressure for some reason.

Do other careers have this need to do work in your free time? You don’t see brick layers itching to work on building a little house on the side, or lawyers just looking for a case to practice on.

Why is it just devs?

Hey, would you mind linking me to that ps1 graphics and blender community?

1609 baby!

I’ve seen them called digital gardens, because they like something you maintain and let grow with no specific purpose.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/03/1007716/digital-gardens-let-you-cultivate-your-own-little-bit-of-the-internet/

Sometimes hearing other peoples opinions can spoil something for you. I’m kind of glad I’ve never found any online communities based around Xanth now, because that’s never even crossed my mind, and I’m sure there are many others that would do the same, where it’s just some fun, silly story books from my childhood for now.

I remember the character, but I mostly read ones that happened after him (the series spans multiple generations).

I think his name began with a B. I may try to dig through them and find the name of the book.

I came here to say both of these for the same reasons.

I read them both after reading some people saying they changed their lives on reddit. Siddhartha had some effect on my I still can’t pin down, bit changed how I looked at my life.

Oh my god. I’ve never heard another human being reference this series or be aware of this series.

My mum read them when she was a girl and passes them down to me when I was a kid. For my 30th birthday, she hunted down the whole collection for me and now it’s one of my most prized possessions.

For you. Red/yellow/green flags can be entirely subjective, and what’s yellow for you can be green for someone else.

Do you know if it’s possible to have some mild form of this? Me and my brother have been trying to work out our “digestive” issues for a few years with doctors with no success.

I can relate to the feeling of food/drink feeling like its “piling up” because sometimes I throw up last nights dinner when I’m brushing my tongue the next day.

It’s something that’s gotten worse as I’ve gotten older. I don’t know if that plays into it.

Oh no. That’s a real shame. I’ve been using Bandcamp where I can over Spotify for years. Fingers crossed this isn’t the beginning on Band camp going downhill

Oh no. What happened with Bandcamp?

Better how?