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"Now I get to show him how there is actually a cleaner 1000 line program hiding inside his 2000 line program."

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/635831064846594048



Ah! That constant realization. It is hard, but the "what now" feeling I get after polishing a small stupid sideproject of mine until there is really nothing left to do but adding features I don't need or want. I like to think it is teaching me good habits, but that is really not very comforting.

This week I revisited my scheme automounter I have running on my raspberry pi that I wrote when I first learned scheme. I made the code half as long and made it not suck and now I am struggling with not starting an ever-growing project of replacing systemd with it...



Beautiful!


"Welcome to programming. You suck."


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