OP here. Thanks for all the feedback! I truly consider it a gift. My takeaways are: you want more pixel art and you want it to be more frequent throughout the post. I'm on it!<p>In all seriousness I deeply enjoy generating pixel art images and tweaking prompts to get exactly or closer to what I want, but across everyone giving me feedback I seem to get a 50/50 split between they're really pretty, which I tend to think is the case personally, or I'm a terrible person/ programmer/ artist for including them.<p>You may be interested to know I'm building a side project to help me write posts with generated images while I'm on the go:<p>github.com/zackproser/panthalia<p>So at least im the short term, be on the look out for more posts with terrible pixel art.<p>To be fair, I generate a bunch of Neon Punk stuff, too.
Simple, did you find the "Higher or Lower Number Game" fun as a kid? and did you try many unique strategies before settling on an optimal solution... It may sound silly, but this will generally forecast if people will stay with the hobby.<p>Similarly, Engineers were the kids that constantly destroyed their toys with magnifying glasses and illegal fireworks. This is why society must keep them preoccupied on beneficial projects, and spicy BBQ meat to attenuate their true nature. You can test folks by placing 3 Liquorice jelly beans on a pile of vanilla beans, They will try to covertly remove the defective beans at any cost, and this compulsion continues into adulthood. If this imaginary jar of beans still concerns you, than you likely should have been an engineer.<p>Have a wonderful day, =)
I'd go one step further than the article: <i>never</i> go to a coding bootcamp!<p>You're getting a certificate that means less than the most meagre undergraduate module. This may be fine relative to their cost, but degrees in some countries are free or subsidised, so it's worth looking at formal education first.<p>In terms of the actual learning, if you're polite, patient and willing to put in some personal effort, you'll be able to turn any stranger online into a teacher! IRC or Matrix channels, programming language forums and local groups can often provide a good sense of community, and to be quite honest documentation that you pay (as in books or courses) is rarely better than what you can get on the Web for free.
The article touches a lot of interesting points, but often the novelty (and the shiny pay) is the main attraction point.<p>For me, I just figured out that am good at it and enjoy it when I was doing some embedded work for six months. Before that, I was doing a lot of matlab and wouldn’t dream of doing that as a profession ever.<p>Best to try it out a while as a small internship/apprenticeship(EU thing) before deciding if you want to do it long term.<p>I saw a very many people try to learn Python and then read cool things about C++/Rust folks and then try those to build basic CRUD and then loses interest. At the beginning best to use the easy tools and see if you can persist at it and once you have mastery, try to dip in more complex topics.