Dehomag.

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

I often hear comparisons to Web 1.0 (the bubble aspect, potential for change, etc).

As someone who lived and worked during that era, I don’t remember thinking “holy shit, if this ever gets released on the world at scale we’ll have serious problems”.

Maybe that was a lack of imagination and not thinking through what would actually happen to brick and mortar, the job market and so on. But it feels like this time is different. Or I’m just that much older.

This is a big piece of what drove me out of corp jobs.

With a sufficient hourly rate people are less likely to have you waste time in meetings.

Or maybe I’ve just been lucky. Prob doesn’t work everywhere.

My experience is the opposite I guess. I am having a great time using claude to quickly implement little "filler features" that require a good amount of typing and pulling from/editing different sources. Nothing that requires much brainpower beyond remembering the details of some sub system, finding the right files, and typing.

Once the code is written, review, test and done. And on to more fun things.

Maybe what has made it work is that these tasks have all fit comfortably within existing code patterns.

My next step is to break down bigger & more complex changes into claude friendly bites to save me more grunt work.

I wish I shared this experience. There are virtually no filter features for me to work on. When things feel like filler on my team, it's generally a sign of tech debt and we wouldn't want to have it generate all the code it would take. What are some examples of filler features for you?

On the other hand, it does cost me about 8 hours a week debugging issues created by bad autocompletes from my team. The last 6 months have gotten really bad with that. But that is a different issue.

I make a living writing software that's hosted on Windows. I've never felt as comfortable with the command line options on Windows as I do with macos/Linux. Git bash with vim was such a relief.

It's an idiosyncratic mix of ergonomics and habit probably. I don't really care since I get the job done efficiently (more so than a lot of "Windows natives" I observe).

In my experience, it really does come down to the ergonomics: the cursor, the casing, the forward slashes, whatever key combo is required to paste (shift+insert?).

I'm sure PowerShell and friends are great but it's enough of a shift to not be worth the learning curve if it's an environment you're just dipping into to do the bare minimum required to make something work.

Been filling notebooks for years while also keeping pretty meticulous digital notes. Physical is mostly personal or ideas (sometimes for work). Digital is mostly work.

I like to doodle and draw alongside note-taking and there's no substitute for analog there IMO. Plus, being able to write and not be on a device after a long day at work is a relief.

Lack of search can be an issue. But then I sometimes create indexes to things like book notes or stuff I'm learning and that is a pleasure in itself.

Also pairs well with a fountain pen & ink hobby.

Technical debt and “feature debt”?

I imagine some people would object to things being taken out or significantly altered. An existing & happy (?) user base probably carry weight.

I recommend the book “why we sleep”. It helps (helped me) understand some of the fundamentals of sleep and why it matters

Not sure that day/night matters but an essential element is the cycles you experience during extended sleep. Naps won’t make up for that.

Night is probably most realistic because of light/noise factors

The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum is a fantastic place.

I was on a backstage tour a few years ago and seeing early 20th century cartoons at original size was such a treat.