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Ask HN: What's the longest you spent on a personal project that you gave up on?
12 by nobody271 | 17 comments on Hacker News.
I just wasted five months on an animation that would have been a kind of cool way to animate in a dialog https://ift.tt/2Q5ZbZh. I finally gave up after the hundredth time of thinking all the bugs were worked out only to find new bugs in a browser that I thought worked. When I think of all the actual work I could have gotten done in that time I feel a sense of true loss. I don't know how I threw myself so hard at something so stupid.

I just wasted five months on an animation that would have been a kind of cool way to animate in a dialog https://ift.tt/2Q5ZbZh. I finally gave up after the hundredth time of thinking all the bugs were worked out only to find new bugs in a browser that I thought worked. When I think of all the actual work I could have gotten done in that time I feel a sense of true loss. I don't know how I threw myself so hard at something so stupid.