🔒 How to fight the problem of not seeing things through

[coral schooner]

What are some things to consider or advice you can give regarding my lack of will power of improving?

I really get a sense of boredom or uselesness when doing pet projects and I am also not creative enough to create something more complex of my own since I have a hard time sticking to one thing?

[quiet pilot]

@coral schooner

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[coral schooner]

any help is appreciated

[gentle stream]

Try to participate in bigger projects

Open sources projects or collaborative ones

[coral schooner]

should i go around Github issues and try to make a PR ?

[vague fable]

I would suggest making a project which Interests you, like something you already have a hobby for or you like

Like I really like playing chess , so I resolved to make a simple gui chess game and I was extremely motivated. Even though it's very poorly written.

[coral schooner]

It s really hard to go by that at least that is how i feel so far. Cause I am lacking hobbies that are outside of programming

[vague fable]

Maybe some interesting mobile game you like?

[coral schooner]

I mean there is anime, watching documentaries gaming and photography

[velvet trout]

Do you edit photos?

[coral schooner]

but besides gaming those are hard to translate to actual "programming quests"

[coral schooner]

I usually don't besides black and white grading

[velvet trout]

What games do you play

Also do you play any sports

[vague fable]

It is possible to make a script which uses API to get Anime Ratings from a website then ranking them Or suggestings new animes based on anime tags.

You could make a script such that you'll get gmail notification as soon as an episode drops. (SMTP library)

[coral schooner]

that seems the need to host that polling for episodes

but the anime suggestion actually seems like a great thing since I am falling behind with the new animes

[coral schooner]

Recently Arc Raiders, R6, Deaths Door, Minecraft

[coral schooner]

i always liked basketball but never went to play it

[velvet trout]

One idea is something where you take a picture, and turn it into Minecraft blocks so you can then go build it in Minecraft, or even have code to automatically build it

Here is an example

[coral schooner]

Well i thought the system is

check for next episode release date
store it into a db
send any anime arrive today to an array of emails

[coral schooner]

is it based on the similarity of a block hex color and the actual pixel hex color?

or is there a huge library that gives me orange=pumpkin

[velvet trout]

Well it’s all about how you wanna do it but yeah

But instead of one pixel it’s a region of pixels

As in 1 Minecraft block is more than 1 pixel probably

[coral schooner]

I see

[velvet trout]

You could do 1 to 1

[coral schooner]

crazy block usage

tbh

[velvet trout]

Yeah

Exactly

[coral schooner]

Would work for any pixel art

[velvet trout]

For sure yeah

Now if this is something you actually choose to make I can give pointers bc I made the example above ^

[coral schooner]

first of all i need to defeat my fear of folder organisation

I have 0 clue into how to structure a project bigger than 1 file

[frozen shoal]

sa

[vague fable]

Well Yeah That's also a good idea.

[velvet trout]

That’s also something I could help you with as you start a project, or something you can ask about here

[vague fable]

You'll learn it as you make projects.

split it when you feel something is becoming too complicated

[coral schooner]

well how do you name directories is one big question for me

i feel there are a lot of opinionated ways of doing it

[velvet trout]

The outermost directory is usually the name of my project

[vague fable]

Honestly what's the need?
Simple 1 base directory named project and bunch of .py files

[velvet trout]

Then any inner one is just named based on what’s in it

[vague fable]

Don't overthink it these are not important things

[velvet trout]

Like images, or utility functions

[coral schooner]

yeah i was in the wrong rabbit hole there

looking back at it, I am mostly focusing on the bigger things but being aware is not enough to defeat the issue

[vague fable]

If you feel it's too much cluttered you can do something like
Project --> Scripts Images , etc

[velvet trout]

You’ll know what to do depending on the project

Like when I make a game I may have a character art folder and also maybe background images folder etc

Some projects I have no inner directories

[coral schooner]

by the nature of my job it would have to involve the network layer (i work a lot with APIs at work) so i guess structuring a fastapi project will be the next thing i will do

[velvet trout]

Does Minecraft have any api that actually lets you build in the game. Idek if that would be an API or if that’s realistic but

[vague fable]

??

FastAPI is for making APIs

Requests is for Sending Requests to servers APIs

You don't need to make your own APIs

[coral schooner]

let me rephrase that, since i work a lot of apis at work, my projects are most likely gonna be some sort of APIs*

Since thats what i am most familiar with and that would help my career

For clarity I am a Solutions Engineer for already working products (Auth0 for example)

i will work on that anime suggestions system you told me about @vague fable 🙏

[quiet pilot]

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