Time to talk about my writerdeck

Post by nine_k » Sat, May 23, 2026, 10:50 PM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #90

cortesoft wrote: post #83

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> focused hard for a day on the wrong thing Entirely depends on what the author wanted to focus on. Who are we to say what is the right or wrong thing to focus on?

I built my whole career on focusing on the wrong thing. In fact, focusing on the right thing makes me slow down, struggle, and get bogged down with frustration. I still learn 10+x faster when focusing on the wrong thing, and after two decades of this, I now know I have to regularly focus on the wrong thing with passion - those are the moments I pick up knowledge and experience that, few months to years later, people…

Post by 1shooner » Sat, May 23, 2026, 10:53 PM UTC

3eb7988a1663 wrote: post #59

chunkyks wrote: post #57

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My wife bought one of these: https://getfreewrite.com/products/freewrite-traveler Reviews are wildly polarised. * Some folks find it to be the best thing ever [long battery life, the new patch makes the eink surprisingly fastly responsive, decent keyboard, no distractions] * While others find it terrible [it's still eink, that's a lot of money for a device that doesn't actually do much] You can find a selection of al…

That looks really cool, but that price point. I could get a Steam Deck + travel keyboard and still come out ahead. Is that the true price for a low volume, niche product? Eink monopoly continues to make the world worse? Looked it up, and the original One Laptop per Child came in around $200

Post by bigyabai » Sat, May 23, 2026, 10:55 PM UTC

embedding-shape wrote: post #89

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #69

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It it reminds me of a lot of friends who wanted to "start blogging" and their first step was writing a new static site system from scratch.

But how am I supposed to be productive writing blogposts unless I can copy my favorite Clojure templating library into Nix first, so I can have completely statically and reproducible blog posts building from markdown together with the nicest type of templating?

Post by katzgrau » Sat, May 23, 2026, 11:14 PM UTC

CobrastanJorji wrote: post #50

This is an awesome setup. I like it, good job. That said, I do think there's a bit of irony to solving your "paying attention to writing" problem by setting up your OS from scratch, choosing to swap out the default networking stack, installing a novel flavor of your preferred text editor because you're "trying to get to know it a bit more," customizing your battery readouts, tweaking the login sequence, and then, aft…

Post by infinitezest » Sat, May 23, 2026, 11:29 PM UTC

chungusamongus wrote: post #44

bigyabai wrote: post #20

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> And none of that is even going to be a drop in the ocean in terms of making your life better. I disagree 100%. Collective action isn't ever going to persuade Apple or Google to correct course. Collective action has already failed to compel Microsoft for 30+ years. These companies picked their side and your bargaining has zero leverage if you continue to purchase their products and suffer their indignation. You can…

The victim mindset? What about my initial statement implies that I perceive myself or others as victims? Sounds like projection.