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Reading Slow Productivity by Cal Newport, discovered via onboarding content in mymind mymind.com

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I very much like textlog, it feels like a breath of fresh air

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this

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feel the same!

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tysm! welcome!

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Longer answer: My editor does not start wars. I use whatever is convenient. Most of the time I am on visual studio code but I'll use anything. Well, anything except emacs I guess. I don't think I have ever actually used emacs.

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It's one of the sad ironies of this computer stuff that the simpler solutions take longer to conceive than the complicated ones.

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while we wait for this to be true
we could add our bits together 
remember to not sleep forever
return when your dreams are through

Start with cringy poem, end with cringy pseudocode. At least it comes naturally.

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Maurizio Lombardi is my only reason now. I have to move forward

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Never realized how much slow builds kill morale until I have to do multiple back to back 😔

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Nobody is complaining to me because I think they know they will be "voluntold" if they speak up 🤣🤣🤣

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On the lower end of the sine wave of stress and burnout. Looking forward to the ascent.

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The 2030 release date of StarCraft: Dominion is so extreme that it feels like an indictment not only of Blizzard but indirectly of AI

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They’re owned by Microsoft, of all companies. If AI hyperproductivity is real at scale, then why can’t the game come out next year? Next month?

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- Is there a way to get an atom version of the “for-you” feed? I’m guessing this is complicated by needing to be authenticated.

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Exactly, it makes it way more complicated that's why it's not there yet. Not against the idea though.

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Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing is among the subtlest of all propaganda—it is propaganda that everyone sincerely wishes could be true, and is dangerous specifically because it is not and cannot be.

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Married for 13 years. Still in love, but struggling. So many paths we could go.

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Logged on to Bluesky after a news-free weekend. Regrets.

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I imagine something terrible has happened (again) and the world is talking about it. I avoid reading general news. Too depressing.

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Huge items in the plus column for Quebec City: lots of music stores, and lots of shops where you can buy a really good chef's knife.

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Certain modes of work are exhausting to the point of not being able to sleep, the mind is so wired.

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feel this viscerally. even when the problem is "solved" its hard to turn the brain off

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my initial google on this topic wasn't very fruitful... are there any harnesses that let switch between Claude and Codex when you have the 20/month plans 'seamlessly'. rough edges are fine but I'd like to maintain memories between harnesses.

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NIH syndrome? I am guilty of it too. I love implementing things from scratch, you learn a lot by doing so and you get to own the codebase end-to-end, so no surprises and fighting around others’ choices. It can get exhausting too though, in the end I succumb to using off-the-shelf components because my primary goals move at a higher level.

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I don't see much point in trying to build software at a "higher level", like whole products and services. I'm going to go down low and train myself on the fundamentals. Hopefully in time I'll be able to contribute to the foundational bits. You're right, it does get exhausting. At some point you just want to rebuild everything, which is not possible.

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I'm going to go down low and train myself on the fundamentals. When I wrote an HTTP sever (albeit HTTP/1.1), I learned how primitive the HTTP protocol its magic became a skill. It is freeing understanding how things work and allows me to choose where to spend time with more intention.

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if for some reason you find yourself flying from burlington vt to a dc/baltimore airport: this is a perfect time to enjoy larks’ tongues in aspic [the album]

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