In: ~$500/month
Out: ~$800 this month because of extra expenses 😓 but usually I break about even 😅 (for 2 people with a crippling takeout food habit. Not paying rent, but not really living frugally or anything either. Utilities are minimal - solar power covers ~everything even in the winter.)

Two main things:

The balance between managing folks' expectations, and actually like, "promoting".

Also thinking of ways to promote something unfamiliar/weird (in terms of core mechanics) :D I'm a little worried I'll put something out and the people who would enjoy it would never find it.

Since the beginning, but with crippling anxiety around actually doing anything about it

When I talk to friends just getting into programming, that's is basically what I point out - if you know how to solve the problem, you shouldn't really be writing the code manually nowadays. (conversely, never generate code for something you don't actually know how to do yourself.)

SwEng:

it's just not good enough to do anything novel or creative when it comes to writing code, and if you're not experienced, it can be a huge footgun - don't use it as a junior dev if you ever want to improve at all; but honestly, it's pretty good at busywork like common, "standard" refactors.

someone just screamed for help and then body slammed the floor? hope they're okay. I also might have been dreaming?

(plenty of people are here to find games to play lol)

Social media is less like a "game" and more like a "place" - and if the rules of how to get kicked out of a place are unclear, people just don't hang out there.

if the rules of a game are unclear, that's part of the game

(the right) people aren't here to play games.

(I mean like, figuratively)

No seriously.
I know this is the common approach in moderating massive online platforms with lots of churn - "you can't tip the cheaters off on the ban criteria, or else they'll adapt their rules around it" and all that jazz.

But we're not talking about "cheating" here.

but you probably were talking about scope creep and responsible software architecture 😆

Yeah right now I have a great combo of:
- having someone in my life that I want to support, which
- motivates me to do something productive with my time, and also
- actually reach out and ask for help when I need it

If it was just me I'd just reduce my standards over time and get nothing done. 😋

I've had this happen once where the code worked... as in, it compiled... but after I came out of brainfog, I realized it didn't really... do anything?

you're a good boy, T&S team. You know what good boys do? they play nice with their friends and they don't let the bullies hit them.

That's right! We didn't let the advertisers in so you don't have to hang out with their friends either!

You're such a smart boy!

they're not outside the room waiting to come in and hurt you later if you start caring.

no, no, listen.

we got rid of them, right? you don't need to keep preparing for them.