As an entrepreneur, there are no shortage of fun programming moments as it's often the result of a lot of inspiration which goes beyond the activity itself.
In the early days of what became DEV, and then grew into Forem, I spent a lot of time thinking and then would code pretty quickly.
DEV was launched the day after I typed rails new. Rails came to fame from the famous "Building a Blog System in 15 Minutes" demo, so it sort of tracks that the beginnings can come together pretty quickly. It was the clarity on how it might be useful and grow that was more inspirational than the coding task, but putting it together was exciting.
Later on, features like comments, reactions, etc. were generally stuff I built in about a day. I actually built reactions while hanging out with @triketora in a little impromptu hack session when we lived in NYC. I definitely remember this more than anyone else, but I definitely felt like I wasn't really engaging in the conversation because I really felt on to something. 😅
At times I've overdone it on the inspiration-driven coding and it's not as useful as it once was for me, but it is one hell of a time.
Here's what I can come up with:
As an entrepreneur, there are no shortage of fun programming moments as it's often the result of a lot of inspiration which goes beyond the activity itself.
In the early days of what became DEV, and then grew into Forem, I spent a lot of time thinking and then would code pretty quickly.
DEV was launched the day after I typed
rails new. Rails came to fame from the famous "Building a Blog System in 15 Minutes" demo, so it sort of tracks that the beginnings can come together pretty quickly. It was the clarity on how it might be useful and grow that was more inspirational than the coding task, but putting it together was exciting.Later on, features like comments, reactions, etc. were generally stuff I built in about a day. I actually built reactions while hanging out with @triketora in a little impromptu hack session when we lived in NYC. I definitely remember this more than anyone else, but I definitely felt like I wasn't really engaging in the conversation because I really felt on to something. 😅
At times I've overdone it on the inspiration-driven coding and it's not as useful as it once was for me, but it is one hell of a time.
Current Forem team members and contributors over the years: "Yeah, I can tell a lot of this was built quickly, isn't always so much fun years later".