2022-04-07 10:21:06 +02:00
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title: "Necessity Creates Productivity"
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date: 2022-04-07T09:46:05+02:00
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Or at least, that's how I experience it. Let me explain.
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I have a lot of sideprojects. Most would say too many (I'm inclined to agree).
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I often start these projects because I feel like it, without a particular
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purpose or useful goal in mind. Programming is just something that I really
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enjoy, so I tend to create ideas out of thin air just because I want to write
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something, anything. There is however another group of sideprojects, the ones
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that I start because I need something. Those that fix an annoyance, or make my
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life easier. What I've noticed is that I'm a lot more productive & less easily
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burned out when I'm working on these kinds of projects.
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One of those projects (and my main project atm) is
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[Vieter](https://git.rustybever.be/Chewing_Bever/vieter). I originally wrote a
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full description of Vieter here & why I needed it, but that's really not what
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2022-04-07 10:36:58 +02:00
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this post is about. You can still read about it in [the docs](/docs/vieter/#why)
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if you want. The important part to take away from this is that it's something I
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really need. It made me more productive and greatly pushed down my update
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times, which I personally find very important. That's why I'm getting a lot of
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things done for this project, because I know that it'll be worth it in the end
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& improve my life.
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To show the other site of the spectrum, my original idea for this site was a
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collection of microservices, with a complex authentication system & a full
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JavaScript frontend ([source](https://git.rustybever.be/rusty-bever)). Let's
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just admit it here, this idea was way too ambitious and not even *that* useful.
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The only part that I'm actually still considering writing is the authentication
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part, because I do have some other ideas to go along with those, but that's
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another post entirely ;p
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Due to this overkill idea, I didn't actually set up this site for over a year I
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think, just because I just couldn't get myself to properly work on the
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implementation. I actually really enjoy writing these blog-style posts, so it's
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quite sad I didn't set up a proper Hugo-based site immediately. Gladly at some
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point I got through my stubbornness, and I set up this site in less than a day
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:) This site still runs on [a custom backend](/switch-to-axum), but it's much
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more minimal and only supports what I really need. My mind's a lot calmer now
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that I've properly left my original idea behind.
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I'm honestly not quite sure what point I'm trying to make. This post is just an
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observation about how my unpredictable mind can work. Knowing myself, the
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sideprojects will probably never stop coming, but that's okay tbh. The
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important part is that most of them have a purpose, and don't just burn me out
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unnecessarily.
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Fin.
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