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🌸 many-shaped creature
✨ too many projects
🚀 cannot be stopped
🌙 stayed up too late
eggbug enjoyer
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header image: chapter 8 complete from celeste
avatar: made using this character builder
Nobody talks about how much of programming "skill" is just mental endurance. Lots of stuff isn't that hard but requires you to be able to hold more state in your head than is comfortable and iterate on it there for longer than is comfortable.
Related: my head feels all fuzzy and floaty right now
The idea that I often use (and it seems to apply to all jobs) is that the "skill" is whether you can appreciate pushing through the times that you need that endurance. If it's fun, or at least tolerable, then you can be a "good programmer."
I've always described it as grit: there's some goal you have, but getting there is going to be incredibly frustrating and you have to be able to endure to see it through.
