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Re:Hello on Sunday November 06, 2022 @05:05PM (#33497891)
Amazing idea :)

I've been learning and playing with Common Lisp. I've been involved in Java for more than a decade and wanted to try something new. I wanted to try something outside of OOP and more functional. I went from Scala -> Clojure -> Common Lisp. I've also switched to Emacs for almost all of my common tasks. That hurt as a long time Vim user :) but I'm enjoying it so far

Re:Solarized on Monday October 31, 2022 @04:57AM (#33403399)
Again, I started with solarized but moved onto other themes. I think it was one of the first themes that was implemented almost everywhere. It was nice to have my browser, IDE, window manager etc all themed up the same way.

I also appreciate the work he went into to set the color scheme up. I feel the same spirit with the Modus themes[1] for emacs

[1] https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes

I've seen this on a lot of the hacktoberfest repos this year. The repo owner will only authorize the PR if you star them
Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with rude interviewers? on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @09:19AM (#31339548)
If the interview was like this, what does it say about the culture of the company? Either way, I would have politely terminated and left
Re:Show HN: Lists.sh – A Microblog for Lists on Thursday April 28, 2022 @06:29AM (#31190855)
added to my rss. Really nice and the idea of limiting your writing to lists helps to focus your thoughts. Will give it a try
Re:Clojure by Example on Thursday March 24, 2022 @04:56AM (#30787541)
This is very useful. I'm learning clojure at the moment and it's way more helpful to have little code snippets to explain points, much like the documentation does.
I also use Pinboard and also have had no replies to emails.

I actually like the service but I don't use the archive feature. It's minimal, text based and provides rss feeds for most things. It also plays nice with Miniflux.

I'm going to look at ArchiveBox but I hope someone else takes over Pinboard and can give it some proper time and attention

Sounds like a great idea. Are you planning to have a rss feed at all?
Re:Resources to encourage children to learn to code on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @03:58AM (#30270520)
I'm a Java fan at heart and I've been coding with my 6 year old on [0] Greenfoot. It required a bit of setup for him but we've had a lot of fun. He's writing code using [1]Stride which helps with code blocks

[0] https://www.greenfoot.org/door

[1] https://stride-lang.net/

Didn't see Terminus either[0]

[0] http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/

Re:I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012 on Monday January 10, 2022 @05:21AM (#29872715)
I love my X220. Also running arch with dwm. Initially, it was more for tinkering and just to play with but it's getting more day to day use. The keyboard is great and I'm not as worried if it drops or the kids get their hands on it. I also love the light placement rather than the keyboard being back-lit

Been pushing it to do Java development and, while a little slow, it's holding up fine

Re:Vim prank: alias vim='vim -y' on Friday January 07, 2022 @10:47AM (#29840448)
I had to use Gvim on a Windows machine recently and completely tripped up on the "modeless" mode. Thought there was something wrong with my .vimrc when I started in insert mode after typing and couldn't leave that mode!

:set im!

Re:Procrastinatory Doom Loops on Friday January 07, 2022 @05:57AM (#29837658)
I have the same but it feels more like a type of paralysis rather than a loop. I'm finding the more I'm mentally trying to multi task, the worse this gets

I can only do one task deeply at a time but while doing that, I will think and worry about other tasks that need to be done. This stops me from what I am working on, leaving it half way and starting something else. When I reach a point when two or more tasks compete for my attention (or someone drops something on my plate) I feel locked up.

The best thing I've found is to capture tasks as soon as I get them and try to ignore things until my current task is done. Otherwise, i drift of into mindless scrolling

Re:How to build a second brain as a software developer on Thursday November 11, 2021 @12:26PM (#29190544)
I've used lots of 'note' apps but ended up with 2 parts that work for me 1. A physical notebook for quick capture 2. A single markdown document which I search through or edit with Vim

I have simple vim macro that prints today's date bound to a key. This makes it easy to write notes for that day. It's worked well for the last few years

Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old on Thursday November 11, 2021 @12:21PM (#29190478)
Years of Java has me seeing the world in camel case

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