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Amazing how much easier it is to motivate yourself when you have the ability to make significant decisions on the fly, based on the immediate feedback you receive from the system, instead of spending half your time hitting your head against a wall attempting to sus out self-contradictory instructions given by people who don’t actually understand how any of it really works.
We need to start a change process for this
Do we work together?
You can use a JavaScript to assembly converter so you get the same pain on your personal projects.
Tell me more, I’ve almost achieved webasm
Wouldn’t that just be a JavaScript compiler?
Well, if you put it that way … yes.
Is there a 6502 backend?
The difference is: One you do for fun and one you’re told to do for money.
Amazing how you can work 8 hours without it ever stopping being 1 am. Human beings really are amazing when they are motivated
Motivation: AKA, Chronic Insomnia.
Sometimes programming is my zone.
Chronic flow in an engaging project. Start on a Saturday morning, feel like a coffee since you’re a bit sleepy, notice it’s Sunday
Yep, programming is fun but working as a programmer not so much. For me writing software is a creative activity. It’s fun to come up with problems and find solutions for them. In my personal projects I decide what problem I want to solve, choose the technology I think will be fun to solve it in and then come up with a solution I like.
At work you are usually handed a problem you don’t care about (we’re decommissioning X, you don’t have to know why, just change everything to use Y), the solution is described in detail by someone else and you just have to turn it into some code using 5-10 years old stack.
Fortunately at my current job I mostly do projects without much technical oversight (proof-of-concept type project) so I can choose how I want to do then. I dislike the company culture but I know that moving somewhere else would mean going back to boring coding agian.
Where I work there is a hardware test, where the voltage needs to be changed on the power supply like 8 times. Currently it’s done by hand.
I gave that to a student with the description that I want that automated, let production show you how the test is done. If you have other ideas how to improve it, just do it.
This was 8 working days ago for the student. She still hasn’t started, because she wants an exact description what needs to be done. If you want me to write down how exactly everything needs to be done, I might just write it myself in python and be done with it.
What are you doing in assembly?
Manually optimizing the code I wrote in C, so that it runs noticeably slower and has all sorts of stupid bugs that weren’t there before. All in a good night’s work.
That doesn’t sound like optimization.
No worries, he can optimize it later.
Put a refactor ticket in the backlog. We’ll get to it eventually, right?
// TODO: fix this code
To you, maybe.
It’s just reverse optimizing!
Well, I guess it’s either writing a device driver or that.
And the device driver will always end-up with most code in C or Rust.
Suffering.
Pretending I was born 40 years earlier
Assembling.
Doing vector operations because the MCU vendor didn’t provide APIs for it.
(did not actually do that but was preparing to before we came to our senses and ditched that MCU)
At least with your assembly code it’ll go brrrrrrrt because of how fast it’ll be.
It will go brrrrrrrt¤gdføTJwrgt65&<)5½$¥[[¥½{2ahgfh Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Assuming it actually works
I always have problems with assembly. Especially after being at Ikea.
If you know that you do. What you probably do not. A proper C/C++ compiler (gcc) will almost always produce better/more optimized ASM than a human ever could.
My assembly code only goes brt :(
it reaches ‘t’ from ‘b’ with a lot less iterations of ‘r’. It seems to me that you have a more optimized version. :)
Maybe you switched up
jgandjl?/s
Why is this literally the opposite for me?
I have a class where I write in Assembly but instead I’m working on my personal HTML/CSS/JS project.
It’s not the language that matters, it’s the obligation vs passion.
The result is still the same, isn’t it? (in language you like vs in language you’re forced to use)
It also really depends on what is being made. My Assembly programs are specific homework assignments. My JS project is designed entirely by my will.
I think the main difference is just personal project vs work project
Wonder if that’s the “alienation of labor” thing Marx was talking about
The funny thing is, both of these are JavaScript for me.
I mean I guess TypeScript if I’m doing coding for work.
My first job right out of college I was writing assembly for some epically old industrial equipment. That shit runs on its own language that was only ever used on that piece of equipment. Usually x86 but with some wacky modifications. There’s no compiler for that, just a manual the size of a textbook and a million chicken scratch notes in it that’s half covered in grease. I’m so glad I don’t do that anymore.
That sounds like a nightmare.
Same. I participate on web game jams for fun.
I like my coding job as long as I have the space to do what I need to do. Without that I just get stressed out and way less productive. The older I get the better I am at setting boundaries and finding the right kind of jobs.
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I wrote a JavaScript program to write assembly program
You wrote a compiler?
They just ran a line of JS in a browser. 🤭
Nah. Just converting midi into hardcoded assembly code.
