Whenever there’s a big mob backlash against a company (like the RubyGems vs. Shopify drama now, or 37signals in 2021), I keep this tweet from @mitchellh in mind:
“One thing I found incredibly frustrating as an employer is you can’t share your side of the story and you’re always
some people are suffering from an extreme addiction to attention
have seen it on here where someone's post blows up and the taste of attention ruins them
they end up mechanically searching for anything they can say or do to try and experience it again
they end up an empty husk with zero sense of self, pushed to extremes and entirely programmed by the algorithm
it's even worse because you can monetize this addiction and make a career out of it
and so much of what's wrong with the world is downstream from these people
It took less than a day to get comfortable with Omarchy after years on Apple. Haven’t touched my MacBook ever since. Such a wonderful Omakase setup, especially for development.
Started reading "Only the Paranoid Survive" from Andy Grove (the CEO of Intel) and the table of contents made me pause. This book was published in 1996.
I've been using Vim + tmux as my primary code editor for a few weeks now and investing hours and hours to learn it properly is one of the best investments I've made as a developer, right after learning Ruby on Rails five years ago and switching to Linux last year. Having Claude Code running on the side to suggest various vim motions, keyboard shortcuts, best practices, and update configuration as needed has been a massive help in learning. It's amazing how easy AI has made it to learn new tools, new skills, and whatever it is that you want to learn.
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