It has been a while

My last post was quite a while back. In all honesty, the current state of affairs in coding land had me somewhat burned out on building things, AI is taking the pleasure out of actually thinking. I switched jobs in April, which also took a mental toll... so I decided to step away from my hobby projects and workshops to just focus on that. Now, 3 months later, I decided to reset the way I work with my projects. I have started focusing on a single project, a desktop based comic book collection tracker. It is written using Qt and C++. I don't use any AI, except for finding things in the documentation (replacing stack overflow and search engines I guess), and I am starting to enjoy the process again. Removing AI from my workflow was quite easy; simply use Emacs and stay away from more elaborate tooling. In the project that I was running last year up to April we had to use Jetbrains IDEA, and it is loaded with things to make you stop thinking critically. I think that has been the biggest…