This sounds like a cool project, I’ll check it out!

Yes, the same one they spent the last year making!

I’m sorry, but this made me cackle out loud

The first thing I ever did in Python, after the obligatory “Hello World”, was to follow a tutorial to make a simple task tracker web app. Then I made a small routine to edit Excel files. A few months later I was getting paid to write Python code (and yes, I got lucky as shit, but my point is that it was easy to keep going as soon as I just got started). Just start making things, it doesn’t really matter what as long as you enjoy it. It will be useful. Follow tutorials, look stuff up online, you’ll absorb syntax without cramming it. You’ve got this!

If anyone irl asks, I’m “trying to learn how to use Linux”. Which is technically true, I still learn new things all the time!

Did we have the same mom? I wish I could give you a hug, sis!

Gardening is awesome, by the way! What are you most looking forward to planting / doing in your garden this season?

God, I feel that!

My mother was scared that anything I liked might be harmful, so getting her to let me enjoy my games and music in peace felt like a win. She wouldn’t feign any sort of interest, so if she asked a question you knew it was a threat.

In fact, I was almost 30 the first time either of my parents asked a genuine question about my favourite game of all time (that I spent literally thousands of hours playing). I was almost too shocked to answer.

I mean, I get that kid’s stuff is boring, but I feel like if you can’t take some kind of interest in your kids you shouldn’t have any.

Rant over. Sorry, I just wanted to say that you’re not alone!