2024.04.20 Sat 20:15 I'm not hungry when programming

Sometimes I wake up early with idea related to program I'm working on
that I have to test immediately.  Today was such a day and when I
start I'm going for hours without breaks.  No water nor food.  But I'm
not hungry, I am wired in [1].

The desire to see results of fresh thoughts is difficult to resist.
Regardless if I was right about my theory or not.  If I was right and
new code makes program better then I'm getting excited which keeps me
going for another hours.  And if idea was incorrect then I adapt my
understanding with new discovery to try different solution right away.

If I don't have anything important to do that day then I'm doomed.  As
important duty is usually what break this evil spell.  But today it
got even worst because I had appointment.  I just canceled it as soon
as I realised that it will get in the way of my programming.  Please,
send help ...

It's the same thing that I was talking about few times already.  The
procrastination via programming.  I'm writing it from the programmer
point of view but any kind of strong desire for work will result in
such behavior.  I think that it is a combination of hobby and free
time.  It's common among artists.

Anyhow, I was polishing rrr [2] and writing ftt [3].  Both are very
small C CLI programs that I'm using for exploration of protocols with
raw request and responses.  I had good time coding today.  I mean, the
whole day.

I think that procrastination via doing hobby is better than watching
TV, shopping or other common consumers activities.  Anyway, who cares.
It's getting late and I haven't eaten yet ...

> If you want to buy something without looking at the price tag, you
> gotta work without being able to look at the clock.
> - Some random kid

[1] https://youtu.be/4c0lk-LtLI0
[2] https://github.com/ir33k/rrr
[3] https://github.com/ir33k/ftt

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