# 2024-04-13 17:10:56

it's easy to get into engineer mode and keep wanting to perfect
trivial things in simple projects, get it to be most convenient
for your own tooling.

to actually grow and learn, work on difficult projects that teach
you things and make you _think_. projects you don't want to do --
not the laborious kind, but the challenging kind.

https://austinhenley.com/blog/challengingprojects.html

# 2024-04-13 17:11:40

infinite canvas seem to be interesting too. apps that have that
feature are almost always paid, and they show some special
library they're using.

I was considering making something like it for the terminal years
ago -- yourworldoftext clone, xfnw's nboard.

I should look into ncurses and nboard again, and maybe write
something like nboard using go tcell.

speaking of which, conway's game of life in ncurses (sloum has a
project like this), and tcell would be amazing. it includes a
"game loop" kind of thing.

# 2024-04-13 17:14:03

For the extra challenge (and help with CP), I use consider using
C++. maybe some library-style code, given some initial state,
compute some representation of the end state.

I should get back to CP...

# 2024-04-14 09:29:29

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