The Healing Power of JavaScript

I resonated with this. There's something calming and comforting about creating little worlds, tending to them like a garden of living things. It can be a peaceful activity, conjuring concepts in the mind, moving and arranging shapes, letting them loose to run on local and remote machines. When it's working well, there's a kind of clarity and purity achieved, that is tough to find in the messy "real" world.

I&#x27;ve been a little while out of doing side projects (I&#x27;ve always loved coding outside of work - but perhaps burnt myself an existing trading bot project). The last few months I&#x27;ve been building a multiplayer &quot;io&quot; type zombie survival game. and I&#x27;ve really fallen in love with coding again.<p>Solving these little puzzles (as oppose to just completing the project) is super rewarding. Time to add collisions, human damage, horde behavior, a HUD system.<p>Everything is like a little piece of a puzzle, it&#x27;s interesting to compare it to something more analogue (such as an actual puzzle), it feels like it resonates after my various battles over the weekend.

Title changed to &#x27;the healing power of javascript&#x27; which not only undermines the text but also means it&#x27;s too silly to share on social media now.

This is a wonderful article. It describes pretty well how I feel about coding and scripting and writing documentation for it all. Tech is often the small bubble in which we can hide, a refuge with clear rules and predictable entities which will never cast judgement upon you.

This is not surprising.<p>I was reading an article about an artist early on into the pandemic that mentioned he started a collection of peoms as his way of &quot;processing&quot; the pandemic.<p>Since I was writing some code specifically to track the Covid progression and estimate future evolution it resonated with me.<p>We all process the world with what we are and what we do. For some of us that included coding.

Chasing shrodenbug in someone’s else code atm. So much healing...

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I&#x27;m code in my past time, and I&#x27;d say this is also my haven during this pandemic. Letting your imagination run amok amongst the disparities of our world is just therapeutic.

It must depend on the person.<p>Javascript makes me sick, instead.