There’s also RIOT: Civil Unrest : https://store.steampowered.com/app/342310/RIOT_Civil_Unrest/

Ah I see, I will defer to those who know more then; I think the last drip coffee pot I had as a mr coffee. I can say that they’re going to be more or less the same; one thing you could do is buy a grinder and grind your own beans and that will make the coffee more flavorful no matter what you get

I really like my moka pot, it’s great because you can make espresso and coffee drinks with it. Basically for coffee just make a shot and add hot water to it and for other espresso drinks you can use one of the coil frothers.

Prolog is so hardcore lol. I took a class on where we had to make a concurrent messaging queue in Prolog and it was the hardest thing I ever had to do for a class. Mine barely worked and it was because I found a bunch of shortcuts to hack something together. Idk if you have worked with Lisp at all but there is an interesting phenomenon where a lot of Lisp people bake prolog into it for some reason. Like PicoLisp has Pilog and Scheme 9 from Empty Space has their tiny prolog implementation.

For the overworking thing, its more that it led to my burn out this time around. It doesn't necessarily have to be working that leads to burn out. During the pandemic I had burnout that lasted for 2 years that also didn't have anything to do with overworking but just stress and having a manager that didn't support the dev team very well and a bunch of other factors. so more or less what I was trying to say is take it easy on yourself. When I tried to force myself into "doing coding challenges" or what people say you are "supposed to do" to get a job I have found that it only make my burnout worse.

I don't have any answers because I am going through a similar scenario to you; however, I do have a lot of not answers.

With the skills regression, I also felt like this for a long time and came to find out that I was burned out due to overworking; I have been working multiple jobs for a few years or so and I had a situation where I had like a couple weeks break from both jobs and a lot of it came back. That being said, by "it came back" I meant my wanting to work on my personal projects and actually being able to work on them. I think that skills regression is pretty normal, if you are not constantly practicing you will loose it, but it never completely goes away, you will always at least have a memory of what you did and if you need to do it again a quick lookup of how it works usually is enough to bring it back within a week or so. Like I haven't programmed in Java for years but I started working on a Minecraft mod for fun and it all came back slowly.

On your job. I'm sorry that happened to you. It seems to be a very common thing right now. The software market over the past few years has been extremely volatile. My work had their first layoffs ever a few years ago, and it was all at the same time that all the big corporate companies (Google, Microsoft, etc) were doing their layoffs, idk if it was just companies copying one another but it all boiled down to short term money gains. Even people who are Senior Devs were being rejected for new positions, not to mention positions that are fake (to keep stock prices high and to not scare investors), and ones that are phishing scams to steal your personal info. I can say it seems like the market is getting slightly better, but its too early to tell for sure.

About the "hacking stuff together" part. I think this is a very good mindset to be in, this is exactly where I was a number of years ago. I have come to view programming as a kind of art in itself, the same as poetry, or painting, or the like. (This is anecdotal, but I think very true) An artist that is forced to do art in a corporate setting will end up hating art until they take a step back and start doing art for themselves. So like for me, I program in a specific area but I have personal projects that are competently the opposite of what I do for work. Also that I have probably hundreds of dead projects that I abandoned after only a few hours to a weekend, I think thats also pretty normal, its the same as an artist keeping a sketchbook, it doesn't exist to be a masterpiece, just to do a little practice on something. Also what makes a good project is not the amount of code, or how clever it is, or how you rolled your own fibonacci tree, its how useful it is, even if it is simple or trivial. One project I really like is tinywm; it is like 60 lines of code, and has had a bunch of other projects spawn off of it.

I would second what lillypad said that working on an open source project is a good idea as well. You can show companies on your CV that you are working on a "real project" while giving your time to help a project that really needs developers. Also learning new programming languages (even if they are pointless) is good for you as a developer as they will allow you to see different ways of thinking about the same problem, and make you a better programmer by broadening your mind as to what is possible. I can recommend the Rosetta Code project and Programming Languages dot info for all things programming language related.

Im not sure what "your thing" will be but I can give some of my inspirations, maybe one might help.

One is Plan9. I tell developers about plan9 (way too much) its like the exact opposite of all modern computing. Its a weird, old, clunky; and yet paradoxically simple, elegant, and powerful. Its like a window into another universe where things went differently. Its easy to do hard things and hard to do easy things. Try to change the color of text for your text editor will probably be an hours long dig into documentation and code. Try to mount the sound card of a completely separate computer on your current one? trivial, takes like 5 seconds. Its a very distraction free OS, it lets you really focus on what you are doing. SDF has a free bootcamp they do sometimes that is a good start as to what plan9 is like.

One inspiration I have found this artist/programmer who is in the unix/bsd/plan9 space called unix_surrealism whos manifesto? (of sorts) I will link here. It gets you into a good headspace I think. I find their art interesting and funny.

Another inspiration I have is Hundred Rabbits who created the uxntal language and varvara VM (to name a few things). They seem to be the perfect blend of art and programming.

I haven't really checked but if I can remember Im planning on doing a proper analysis when all the counting is done and the data becomes more available

Reuters has the numbers but its per state, if you add them up its currently 99,075 Update: 100,022

It’s the NFL trade deadline

Super cool! I was expecting it was written in hy-lang tho

I have $HOME/src for projects that are executables and $HOME/lib for ones that are libraries/dependancies/etc

“And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”

Stay Safe!

For those like me who are stuck with win 11 on your work computer be aware that KDE makes windows builds for some of their software like the Dolphin file explorer: https://apps.kde.org/dolphin/

It’s not officially supported yet and has some issues but I’ve been using it for a few days now and it’s been quite nice

Some issues I’ve run into are: not being able to open archives into dolphin; issues with not being able to move files to the trash bin (although deleting it works fine)

Also I’m pretty sure that Recall is deep in the kernel so you might not be able to run the explorer shell at all. Unfortunately there really isn’t a good alternative since litestep has been abandoned :(

LISP is consistently good: https://github.com/barak/stalin

Posadist Standard LISP is my favorite flavor tho

I don’t think you have a choice in how many cats you own; you’ll wake up one day and they’ll be another one

I had to make a double take as I first read that as “donated to both the Hamas and Trump campaigns”

Yeah, you would think there would have been someone making a Clojure version at least

If anyone is interested here is a wiki with quite a few of the open source Minecraft servers and clients made through the years.

https://wiki.vg/Server_List

Also check out the most Unix-y server ever written which was written in Bash

https://git.sakamoto.pl/domi/Witchcraft