• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Software development is cheap, if you already own a PC, which is the most expensive part if you go with open source tools.

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      6 days ago

      It’s free until you start wasting money on hosting and domains, for websites that no one will ever visit.

      I don’t want to know how much I would be paying, if I didn’t have a home server with fiber internet.

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      6 days ago

      And here’s me thinking software development is a career 😭 good for you though. How did you get into it as a hobby?

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        6 days ago

        Learned it in college, first hated it because Java + webapps + PHP, then I discovered system programming through game development.