This was hard to write, I'm feeling quite distracted and my thoughts are not very cohesive today. If I were you, I would skip this one.
I had not idea what to write about today. Mostly because I was frustrated with trying to get VsCode to work. Yea, that's right I tried to install VsCode today to use the debugger. Mostly because I've used the gnu debugger in the past and I was overwhelmed by the whole thing. So much so that I was willing to install VsCode just to not use it. After an hour trying to wrestle VsCode to run the debugger for Zig, I gave up. At that point I was willing to give up for the day and try again tomorrow. Also, not a good state of mind to figure out what to write about. So I decided to take a shower to calm the fuck down and not let the frustrations get the best of me. Almost instantly during the shower I had an idea on how to change my code, to mitigate the problem, the very reason I needed the debugger for. Then I decided I could write about it too. Now, it did not solve my problem, but I decided to give gdb another shot. To my surprise, it's not that hard. I'll still be tackling the problem tomorrow, as I don't want to get frustrated again, especially an hour before bedtime.
Anywho, I'm well impressed by this shower solution. I wonder why it's so effective? Some relation between water flowing and ideas flowing through the mind? Actually it doesn't matter, it works. I can live with some mysteries.
Also, thanks to Lowlevel for the video on gdb. It helped demystify the tool that I've been dreading from using for so long.
I've been watching handmade hero on Youtube recently. It came up as a recommendation in one of the videos I was watching. Although I have no intentions of being a game dev, I'd like to soak up as much as I can from the videos. The videos helped me understand the value of debuggers and made me want to get better at them.
Why write if the idea is really not there?
Just for the simple reason of keeping a habit going. It took a long while to find a rythem, now that I've found it, I'd like to hold on to it, even when I really don't want to. Plus, even though it's completely useless, at least I've proved to myself that I can still write. One day this will pay off, but today will be a struggle.