I'm quite surprised with this myself. This is not what I thought streaming would feel like for me. Before I started, it was only meant to be as an experiment to see if I would like this thing. Turns out I'm loving it. My side projects are making progress faster than ever and I'm getting better at Zig (sometimes outside of stream) too. At the same time I feel it was the right time for me to start streaming. As my personal life has been going through a lot of changes, I am a lot more accepting of my self worth. I truly no longer care what anyone thinks of me. Recently I put this to the test while on a date and for the first time in a long time I was completely honest and was myself the whole time. That has been a huge step in my life. Probably why streaming has been quite easy and at times a lot of fun too.
My goal was to do the thing itself, streaming. Just like my goal here is to write almost everyday. Once I shifted my mindset from writing things for others to writing for myself, I have been able to do it a lot more often. It's been pivotal in helping me explore avenues like streaming. If the goal is to stream, who cares if no one or nine people show up. When they do, it's a bloody bonus. Two days in a row now, I've had someone start a chat, it felt good.
Also, I finished my driver today. It's not perfect but it can do what I want it to do. Which is awesome, considering two weeks ago I had never read a datasheet or written a driver. Just to prove to myself it wasn't a fluke I'm going to be writing a driver for the Wifi module too. This simple project has gone down the route of becoming complicated and I love it. Working at all the way down to the hardware level has been a joy. My mechanical sympathy is through the roof, considering where it was before. The confidence gains is also quite exhilarating too. A bloody bonus, I'll take it.