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I would say I'm maybe marginally more productive with Vim. But as you said, with advent of tools like Claude Code, where one hardly types, I don't think it really matters. FWIW, I …

> decision-makers can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent Feels definitely true. I wish ICs had much more agency. Wish there was something actionable even as a sma…

Location: India. UTC +05:30 Remote: Yes (only). Willing to relocate: Not in general. But open to consider based on interest. Technologies: 1. Professional: Elixir, Go, Java, C#, Sc…

Location: India. UTC +05:30 Remote: Yes (only). Willing to relocate: Not in general. But open to consider based on interest. Technologies: 1. Professional: Elixir, Go, Java, C#, Sc…

Hey, I'm looking to learn more about joining a tech coop. Would like to get in touch to understand better (email is on my profile).

Location: India. GMT +05:30 Remote: Yes (only). Willing to relocate: Not in general. But open to consider based on interest. Technologies: 1. Professional: Elixir, Go, Java, C#, Sc…

I've my git config specified like this -> https://github.com/ajayvigneshk/dotfiles/blob/macosx/.config... . This requires the public keys to be available on the `~/.ssh` dir. Works…

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Secure notes with vimwiki. I version control my notes, but prefer encrypting my notes that are particularly personal.

Sennheiser over the ear headphones. Kindle is close, but I feel it could be better.

Never done any professional systems programming. C is what comes to mind. But don't let the simplicity fool you. It's pretty easy to shoot yourself in the foot with C. Recently I'v…

I recently completed Programming languages - Part B, by Dan Grossman on coursera ( https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages-part-b ). The homework in Racket was a very …

I wouldn't call myself waiting until FI. I do spend a disciplined amount of time on a daily basis with things that I've mentioned I love doing. But as I become more experienced, th…

By self-sufficient do you mean learning life skills to become that?

I am not wanting to be a contrarian just for the heck of it. Some of the goals are hard to live by while having a fulltime job that demands attention-span fully and is only asking …

Thanks for that response, not weird at all. In fact the more I read, I understand what values feel right to me and am able to find groups / communities with the same values somewhe…

Say I become financially independent in a span of 5 - 10 years, I am thinking of slowly switching to a part time role. I would like to get some suggestions on stuff that I could do…

* Do not tie your identity / self-respect to your job (or) interviews * Learn to cut through bull-shit stuff at work. These are mostly to increase employee retention(targeting juni…

This. It's very hard to work and succeed, particularly as a senior dev when you're the only one(or few) in a remote setting. Find a company that has embraced remote working style

I realized during failures, that the pain I was experiencing was due to me placing my self-worth on external events / entities. It's a very subtle thing that slips very subconsciou…

I did read most of the comments, but don't seem to get a solid suggestion. Would be nice if OP / someone could aggregate the suggestions

For me personally, the field as of computing is very exciting. But the CS jobs are very unsatisfying after you've been around for a while. Used to think academia might be different…

Essays: "In Praise of Idleness" - Bertrand Russell "Planet Without Laughter" - Raymond Smullyan (there are multiple perspectives and thoughts, I was more interested in suspension o…

I use ssh key agent of keepassxc. This way only the public keys reside in the ~/.ssh and all the private keys can be made usable by unlocking my keepassxc db(and unusable on lockin…