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Slack & notion make me close my eyes while typing, just because the delay between key press and pixels lighting up is so long that I get confused. It's like speaking with a 400ms or so echo of yourself being played back. Hugely distracting. When writing longer things on either, I find myself firing up vim to copy paste afterwards, just because it's impossible to get into any kind of flow in these apps. VS code also f…
Comments like this makes me glad I never got into the vi/emacs rabbit hole Not that I don't believe you, I know this is real stuff that bothers people! But it's so nice that this stuff never gets to steal brain cycles or cause me stress Writing code in a heavy editor over VNC from the dog park wifi where I can type out my statement and pet my dog before it finishes? No problem! Powerful IDE with everything including…
I'm sure you have some efficiency built into your life that makes you more fragile.
(I don't use vim/emacs etc.) But you're saying that running water is a not a good idea because what if you have to go and get water from the well every day when the water stops running. You'd be so annoyed...