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I bounce between boards and my favorite solution so far is a layer that gives my right hand a “numpad” for the F keys. You need to make sure you can hit other modifiers trivially f…

Been nerd sniped recently so am working on a Rust version of markdownlint-cli2. I'm tired of having a node dependency in my projects and this seems like a constrained enough proble…

10-15 hours is NUTS. I do mine by hand every year and I can get them done in about 3 hours. I would say my taxes are nontrivial thought certainly not super complicated (no K1s)

This has been my primary objection with Go, as well. I wonder if it's just a lack of practice and that I'd eventually git gud, but I find it so hard to flow through code to get a g…

I did a similar experiment on myself. For songs I knew very well on good headphones, I could reliably distinguish up to 320 kbps on MP3 and 256 kbps AAC from the lossless copy. For…

Ha, and I’m the opposite in a different direction. I _hate_ positive feedback. What motivates me is failure and a fear of failure. I go out of my way to downplay accomplishments bu…

I would agree in principle, but from experience it seems people are less interested in the energy of the city as they age and acquire more things, and prioritize building their own…

The great appeal of San Francisco is that you don’t have to think about what you’re going to wear at least 300 days of the year. If you’re outdoorsy at all it’s very hard to go to …

I was lucky enough to dive Alexey and his mother 15 or so years ago. I was terrified of swimming in open water so only joined the group for a deep dive once and my memories are mos…

You are using gender to mean both sex and gender. You are assigned a biological sex by… biology. You get to choose your own gender.

The sunk cost fallacy is real. Most important to me when I started tinkering with him was the speed/feature tradeoff, and portability. I was working on 7 machines at one point doin…

I tried this once when I was little, but dip tends to go bad pretty quickly so you need even more dip to cover up the older dip and soon you've spent all your money on dip but no o…

We’re told that you need to squat with a vertical spine and vertical shins. Even high school kids figure out that’s impossible to do. I’m in full alignment with the article: squatt…

Both my parents went to graduate school. One of them loved the academic setting and went through with the postdoc and then found a tenure track job, the other decided it wasn't for…

Not the other person, but I miss Gradle every time I use something else. It feels like the correct tradeoff of complexity and power. The Bazel family always felt unapproachable, an…

Q: Wasn’t ZZ an attempt to avoid the crazy ZBF2L algorithms and came after ZB? People understood the value of ZBLL (hell, even I wrote out all the speed-oriented algorithms for it)…

For the code review step, sure, commit messages don't really matter unless your team reviews PRs commit-by-commit. How many times do you actually change the default squashed messag…

Might as well post my own crappy blog while I check out everyone else’s: simonsays.so

I'm a huge, huge fan of writing your own prompt. I've had too many people not actually understand what was being displayed to them by their latest and prettiest version of their pr…

1. Find someone to talk to. It might be a professional or it might be a parent. I had a great conversation with my dad when I had a tough time like you are. It won’t fix things imm…

I try to avoid snacking whenever possible but you always have to plan for at least one trip to the kitchen per day. I can’t tell if there’s some subtext in your question about “hea…

I would imagine you can add an F key layer pretty easily so this shouldn't be a big deal. I found it impossible to touch-type the F-row on my Advantage 2, and it's awesome to be ab…

If you're looking for something small but more ergonomic than a Plank, take a look at the Atreus (either as a DIY or in a kit from Keyboario[1]). I also had issues with the Plank b…

I'm completely with you here. Until I read Clean Code, I could never really figure out why my personal projects were so unreadable a year later but the code I read at work was so m…