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one little pixel, crafted in templates and bit shifts and channel_traits<> until it became something more. The pixels became a bitmap. Then the bitmap, a frame buffer. Then the frame buffer a driver.
One little pixel became a library that supports it. The pixel became a wand - a way to translate and blend and draw and format graphics on screens for people to use with modern widgets.
And now I'm happy with it. That's rare for me. I feel like I can set it down. I won't, as now there are people that are using it, and I feel obligated to support it. It has become a little bit bigger than just me now. I still have drivers to write, and certain technical challenges to overcome but I'm ... satisfied. I'm actually satisfied with it. Weeee
That feels so good. You know? To get there with a codebase. Even professionally, I get to points where I'm willing to hand it off, but I've made so many compromises along the way that it doesn't feel like it's mine anymore, but this isn't that. This is something I feel I finished (with a rider) that's fully my creation.
Anyway, that happens maybe once or twice a year, and I work on a lot of projects. Most of them I feel go nowhere. A few like my Midi library become solid, and don't need a lot of maintenance because the protocol hasn't changed (it actually has but the new standard isn't used commonly yet) but most just die on the vine. I'm okay with that, as I code because I enjoy it primarily, so none of the effort is strictly "wasted"
But this project feels like it will stick. Not only that, it was one of those where the end result was not only better than I originally designed for, but I feel like it was better than something I *could have* designed for. Do any of you ever feel that way about your code? It was a serendipitous creativity I hesitate to call brilliance, but is still something better than my typical self would devise.
So instead of coding I've been enjoying the sunshine and our chickens. Wow, they're stupid, but it's cute. Lawn dinosaurs. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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It feels like the Big Bang, and Genesis, combined!
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honey the codewitch wrote: that happens maybe once or twice a year
You are really fortunate... I remember that level of satisfaction only five times in over 25 years of coding... But even so - it is with me probably till the dementia 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I code fast, and I create projects in bulk. It's crazy how many different things I write, so when I say it's rare, I mean like one out of 50 non-trivial projects at least.
Edit: Maybe that *does* make me fortunate though. I guess I never really thought about the frequency before this. But most of the people I know do most of their coding for work. I don't have to these days - I have a lot of time for projects, so I kind of get to follow my creativity where it takes me. Even in work these days, I dictate most of the direction of a given project just because of my knowledge and skillset leaving me best positioned for the role.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: I remember that level of satisfaction only five times in over 25 years of coding...
I'm sure it helps when you are your own boss (either on personal projects, or when self-employed).
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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honey the codewitch wrote: Anyway, that happens maybe once or twice a year, and I work on a lot of projects.
I rarely experience that, but I don't work on that many projects and the ones I'm working on are mostly administrative for my customers, so in terms of code there's little glory to be had 
I do have my moments, like when I finally got an Azure Function working in production as it's advertised (only took me years, the trick is to absolutely 100% put it in its own storage account).
I guess having a big cauldron helps in your case, though
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Sander Rossel wrote: I guess having a big cauldron helps in your case, though
It's not the cauldron, but the familiar that does the work.
(A familiar is supposedly a contact with the Devil, who gives the witch her occult powers)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Step 0: Be a mage in any D&D game.
Step 1: Cast Familiar (having the familiar gives some bonuses, dependent on your alignment and type of familiar).
Step 2: Put it in your inventory so it can't get killed (having it killed will have a permanent negative effect on your stats!).
Step 3: Replace Familiar with another spell, like Chromatic Orb or Magic Missile.
Step 4: Be a slightly more kick-ass mage.
Step 5: Profit!
They're spirits, by the way.
Not necessarily evil.
They could be demons or fairies, often taking the form of an animal, like a cat
Not to be confused with a spirit animal.
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over-cook my bacon, but sometimes it happens, and interestingly enough, it still tastes excellent.
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You cannot undercook or overcook bacon! It's bacon we are talking about! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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for me, if it is not crispy, it is under-cooked. Still good, but not great.
Over-cooked for me is blackened. Some people I know will not eat blackened bacon - more for me.
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American bacon needs to be crispy because there isn't any meat; just strips of vaguely bacon-flavoured fat.
British bacon (known as Danish bacon because that is where it is smoked even though the pigs are British) has more meat and so should not be over-cooked, or even very crispy. Very meaty, yum!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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� Forogar � wrote: American bacon needs to be crispy because there isn't any meat
very true, indeed. 
If one is lucky here in the States, some farms and local butchers will cut the bacon for you so that it is as you described - "meaty".
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Imagine being at the siege of Rochester Castle; where they used some 40 pigs to burn through a mine shaft and bring down part of the castle. Everything's better with bacon.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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It was out standing in its field.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I argued against the award but the rest of the panel accused me of using a straw man argument.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Shouldn't have won the award, he's a grumpy old cuss acts like he's got a straw up his ass.
The less you need, the more you have.
Why is there a "Highway to Hell" and only a "Stairway to Heaven"? A prediction of the expected traffic load?
JaxCoder.com
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anything...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Yeah, Or what I was gonna google.
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Seen on a T-shirt:
Heard it all
Seen it all
Forgotten it all
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Quote: anything...
Precisely! That's what wives are for! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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But what does one do if it's the wife that has the memory problems? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Be screwed?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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