I hate making things pretty too.

Bad dev habit to unlearn:

Impostor syndrome before starting a project.

Don't think a lot before diving into a tough project. Just jump in. If you second guess yourself about being ready, you'll never do it. Either you're already good enough or you'll figure out what you need.

I wasted way too much time before starting to write an AI chess engine but it turned out a lot simpler than I expected.

It's incredible how much faster I work when I'm excited about a project.

getting bored of personal projects and stopping it after being halfway through, or even when they are almost complete

Just finished my C# implementation of Tic Tac Toe with AI.

It is probably the ugliest, messiest code I've written in years...

The problem is the computer i m on is real old and the dark theme sucks... and i havent done C# in awhile...

At this point its just POC and wireframe i guess....

Will clean and make it usable for an actual game when i get back to my home and my own PC...

That or someone can make a PR:

https://github.com/allanx2000/...

k, thnx, bai... that took like 4hrs....

Truth.

"Only stay late at work when it makes sense to, otherwise always leave on time. There's always going to be work left, no matter how much you get done in one day."

Best advice ever.

Edit: I have to say it was during my first week in my first recent grad job.

Software requirements

!$rant

So a few of you devranters were asking if my devrant-widget project was open source.

Well I finally felt confident enough to share my devrant-widget project on github so a link is now available :) I'm pretty new to the open source community so go easy on me xD but I think this project could do some good.

Its just a simple widget I wrote in php this past week that pulls your profile data and the widget can be customized a little via json configuration.

Anyways, feel free to use it in your projects, make suggestions or contribute to the project if interested.

github: https://github.com/konicm8ker/...

Ooh this is going to be fun

So true...