jeffhykin

I'd say there's an initial learning curve of the basics that isn't bad. Kinda like learning programming for the first time; it's a different way of thinking and for something like Sudoku I'd say it's even pleasant.

But when you try to write a CLI videogame, or anything with an evolving internal state, then Prolog stops being the elegant logic system and instead becomes big bundle of edgecases where nothing makes sense practically or theoretically.

Honestly people who post daily with no traction seem more crazy to me than the people who feel defeated after day number 7 and just stop posting. It's totally human to feel bad when talking and nobody stops to listen.

I know some people treat blogging like a journal instead of a showcase. Writing to their future selves instead of a general audience.

In terms of getting traction for employers, posting in small communities with people you are acquainted with seems like the way to go. (@people-other-than-OP, I talk about that more in a different comment)

In that case, I think the two directions are signing up on all the freelancing sites (which I'm going to guess you've already done) and the second direction is to get traction is in small communities. For example, I like Deno, so I'm in the Deno discord and people post their libraries, blog posts, and tutorials in the #showcase channel. All of them get at least 12 eyeballs, and the same people post enough that the frequent posters know each other and can recognize new people. On top of that I end up coincidentally seeing some members in other discords like Lapce (text editor), or the AssemblyScript discord, etc. I'll post on relevant Lemmy communities sometimes too.

From small communities I'll get 5-20 Github stars on a library, which is enough for Github to start organically showing it to random people. I imagine the same is true for blog posts. I'm not even trying to get hired, or get a following.

So maybe start finding some small communities. If you still don't get traction you'll at least have some friends to give you feedback.

Oh you misunderstand, the same thing happens without a phone. It just turns into laying on the couch not looking at a phone for 3 hours

It's actually probably the single most common ADHD trait. It's the "attention deficit" in ADHD; can't force the brain to change focus from doom scrolling into whatever you actually want/need to do. The anxiety is just the side effect when the "other thing" happens to be important/urgent.

Are you actively looking for a job? (Are your posts ONLY for a job, or are you also kind of looking for general engagement/interaction)

Prolog. I like Prolog but it's unlike any other language, and it's pretty hard to fully understand.

Man the ocean is really behind everyone else. I expected better from the worlds largest watermass.

To get to your core point; I agree python without a virtual env, just raw python, is definintely not bulky. I'd argue its much more lightweight than cargo. My comment was because sounds like OP could be new-ish to programming, and, for a number of projects (ex; Android development), going from a big IDE to just a plaintext editor + command line commands can be a really painful jump. I remeber a Java course having a series of IDE tutorials and I could not for the life of me figure out the plaintext+commandline equivlent. The same can happen for certain python projects if a tutorial expects the editor to set the PYTHONPATH and the project has a venv, and the tutorial expects the editor's terminals start already-inside python virtual environment. That kind of stuff can make 'python without an IDE" confusing and daunting to someone merely following PyCharm tutorials.

I just wanted to assure OP they likely wouldn't have that kind of experince with Rust. AFAIK Rust tutorials rarely (if ever) assume an IDE.

Being not-bulky isn't a rust specific thing, a half-decent package manager meets the qualitification, but OP was asking about Rust and might not know.

I can generally convince people to use Telegram, but not signal. Telegram is better than SMS, GroupMe, WhatsApp, Discord, Facebook Messenger, SnapChat, etc so its what I use.

If anything, I've got hopes that Element/Matrix will get enough polish to become viable.

AFAIK the NSFW is actually part of Activity Pub (e.g. its bigger than lemmy).

To fix this, I think Lemmy should adopt a system like hashtags or flairs. This would allow anything, like spoliers, or a market communities adding #sold, etc. The app displaying the posts can choose what to do with them (e.g. filtering out #nsfl)