Why You Never Finish Your Programming Projects

You're not the holy chosen one anymore!

This was a personal attack

absolutely love it, very helpful stuff. 100% about me😂❤

"Minimum Viable Dumbness" (MVD) my approach to fighting against this problem

Bro what the f happened to your hair

handsome haircut

There goes the Nazarite vow.

bro who are you? where is the ... what

he sacrificed his hair for our programming sins

Great phrase: "good enough to ship is way better than perfect but forever in dev mode..."
(with figma's consent)

The last big project I did took me 3 months after hours and at first it went fast then it slowed down a lot because it became very repetitive.

I felt attacked the first 50 seconds, i might have a idea why.... but i will just watch the video in silence

For the first 2 minutes I thought I'm watching Primeagen with new hair cut lol

Agreeing on what finished looks like was the hardest part of any project I've been involved with, and for some weird reason it's even harder when you have nobody to argue with.

Brotha!!! I got 3 projects all half baked!!! Even bought remarkable just to create “a plan” and still didnt work!! HAHAHAHA

People will not believe, I have more than 100 unfinished projects

WHO ARE YOU?? 🔫😠

i've been thinking about trimming the mane over here myself... i think you may have just convinced me that is, in fact, time!

I have all of that I guess I need a therapist

you can't just cut your hair and expect me to trust you

Yeah i have a lot of unfinished projects 😂😂
I just cant go back
When i start new project i put everything i have in to it and then i reach a point where i get so tired then i just get some time off and never o back to it
This is really bad

Omg this is literally me 😂😭😭

Who are you? I dont know you. Why are you making a video about me? Where did you get all that info!? I thought i was being thorough with my opsec.. This is embarrassing.
But seriously, that was great! You helped me put words on my situation, and that subconscious thought trying to find an excuse got crushed right from the start!

просто ахуительное видео, невероятно точно попал и пояснил на примере научных терминов что да как, спасибо большое, стало намного яснее как с этим бороться

It all comes back to Atomic Habits. Good stuff, not just for programming, but for life in general. I like your stuff, Forrest.

My favourite project to start is a new project template so I can start new projects much more efficiently.

Oh boy, perfectionism.

Layouts mismatches, quirky features, typos, project architecture, overengineering, conventions...

I would say the biggest nail in the coffin of web dev projects is that a lot of the projects don't actually solve a real problem. When you hit a wall, it becomes very hard to motivate yourself when you are somewhat aware that you're not building something that helps people or solves a problem.

For some unknown reasons this video made me angry :p :p

Let me just setup my vscode and emacs, it needs to be perfect before I can work on the project 🙄

I almost said who tf is this when I saw his face

Its now 4 year that I stuck and struggle to finishing my 1 project

Sounds also like what happens whem you get a request for a system doing x, and you plan for x, then as you check of milestones getting closer to x scope creep stsrts culiminating in the ever green "well the most important part of this system was actually z" .. -_-

thx now im going to continue my 5 unfinish project

Do you use lights in your camera setup

I mean... sounds a lot like ADHD.
I have intimate knowledge of this process. The part that goes wrong about it at least.

Lol, I have finished one of my side projects

Hey Forrest, your long hair looked much better, it gave you character, and with all respect to you (i love your channel), you're just looking like another npc yt presenter.
well, at least it'll grow back (unless you're cutting it to preempt MPB, or medical, then for that, you have my thoughts and prayers)

great video, i like that you emphasise some key points people need to keep in mind (i sometimes forget about these things when i'm in doom loop). liked the way you addressed vibe coding and that they're not actually learning, the best way to use AI is to help you do something rather than do it for you.
and the hair, yeah, about that...

There is one type of project for which shoe creep is a good thing: learning project. When the goal IS to go through the motions… Chase that scope creep and learn! Am I missing something?

I too 😅😅, have same thing 😢

I needed this video, thank you.

The reason why people scope creep is because when they want to push a product to market they know that they only get one shot to impress a potential customer. If they come to your platform and it has 10% of the feature another one has, you’ll never see that customer from the market again. So people out of paranoia build every possible advantage they can to convince a potential customer to stay.

got me

lol this format rocks, keep it up!