You know how you know certain things and just as easily when you need it the most you are blind to it? That's been my last two weeks. Luckily my past self left some subtle reminders for me. I came across it, exactly when I needed it the most. When I was ready to accept the information. What the fuck am I talking about? Good question. I've been pouting to myself over how my posts or streams hardly get any attention. It was affecting my love for the thing that I was doing. When I started out about six or seven months ago I never shared anything. It was glorious. I was able to write freely, without any care for who read it, if anyone. It was fun and then I decided to share what I wrote. It was necessary as I wanted to learn how to do the right things quietly. This page that I had pinned on my browser was a reminder of that very thing. My stream was a lot of fun too, I was able to enjoy myself, say what I wanted to say and for the first time in the last couple of weeks stream for more than a couple of hours without even realizing it.
I love doing quiet work, relish it in fact. It's my opportunity to explore things freely, come up with my own opinions or thoughts on something. Find out what I like about something if anything. I am competitive, and I make up games in my head for free motivation. Most of the time I'm just competing against myself, it's awesome to look back after a few months of some real hard uncomfortable work and realize how much better I've gotten and how the discomfort has just faded. The hard thing has become second nature. It's etched in my spine.
Misunderstanding Swift Error handling
First glance I was at first a bit let down by the Error handling in swift, but not to fret. It's not exceptions. In fact it's very similar to errors in Zig. Which I quite like. It's not errors as values but it is it's own thing. Don't fully understand it yet but it's some combination of Optionals and nothing or both. I'm just going through the language tour, next up I'll be reading the language reference. The documentation is quite good, it's not as good as Zig's but still up there.
Fun times.