https://samwilson.id.au/coding.rss Posts about 'coding' from Sam Wilson. en-GB MediaWiki 1.44.0 Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:50:57 GMT https://samwilson.id.au/Ignore_everything_and_write_code https://samwilson.id.au/Ignore_everything_and_write_code <div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en-GB" dir="ltr"><p class="tpl-post" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:right"><strong><time datetime="2021-11-06T23:57:32+00:00"><a href="https://samwilson.id.au/2021" title="2021">2021</a> November 7 (Sunday), 7:57AM</time></strong><br />&#183;&#160;<a href="/index.php?title=Flow&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Flow (page does not exist)">flow</a>&#160;&#183;&#160;<a href="/index.php?title=Coding&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Coding (page does not exist)">coding</a>&#160;&#183;</p> <p>I guess it's been said before, but: sometimes, <i>writing code</i> is the only way to find calm in the universe. It doesn't happen all that often, because generally writing code requires one to know what to work on, and <i>that</i> feels like a hard problem. But when it's obvious what to work on, and the work is to just figure out how to do it and express it in code, then the world recedes and the code flows. </p><p>That's why I like having personal projects to stuff around on, where I can just forget everything else and not worry about other people's opinions of my code and thinking, and settle to work on a thing that I have total understanding of and control over. It's a great relief. It's not realistic, it's not efficient, it's not community-minded, but without it I don't think I'd bother carrying on with programming as a job. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r6049">.mw-parser-output .mdl-post-syndications{margin:3em 0;font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output .mdl-post-prevnext{border-top:thin solid #aaa;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;clear:both}</style><div class="mdl-post-syndications"> </div><div class="mdl-post-prevnext"><a href="https://samwilson.id.au/Being_comfortable_blogging" title="Being comfortable blogging">← Previous</a><a href="https://samwilson.id.au/On_storing_photos" title="On storing photos">Next →</a></div><div style="background-color: #efefef; font-size:smaller; padding: 0.1em 1em; margin:3em 0 0 0; border-top:thin solid #aaa; clear:both"> <p><span class="plainlinks"><span style="border-bottom:2px solid #E05B36"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="https://samwilson.id.au/news.rss" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://files.samwilson.id.au/thumb/7/74/Feed-icon.svg.png/20px-Feed-icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="https://files.samwilson.id.au/thumb/7/74/Feed-icon.svg.png/40px-Feed-icon.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></a></span> My main RSS news feed: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://samwilson.id.au/news.rss">https://samwilson.id.au/news.rss</a></span><br />(or <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://samwilson.id.au/Wikimedia.rss">Wikimedia.rss</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://samwilson.id.au/Fremantle.rss">Fremantle.rss</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://samwilson.id.au/OpenStreetMap.rss">OpenStreetMap.rss</a>, etc. for topic feeds).</span><br /> Email me at <code>sam <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="https://samwilson.id.au/File:@_symbol.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/%40_symbol.svg/20px-%40_symbol.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/%40_symbol.svg/40px-%40_symbol.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></a></span> samwilson.id.au</code> or leave a comment below… </p> </div></div> Sat, 06 Nov 2021 23:57:32 GMT Sam Wilson