raveren

FWIW this is somewhat happening in Lithuania as well. Two biggest libraries in the tiny country stock fablabs, recording studios etc.

Well in my personal opinion, there's extremely few material goals that have any purpose whatsoever, life is short, matter is ephermal.

Usually, I find, one has to invest an enormous effort to just find that purpose in the first place. And trying out paths/goals is part of that journey too.

I know I did a lot of soulsearching, in fact I was privilledged enough to save up for a couple of years to do JUST that, and I can report that it was a resounding success (with a sample size of one!).

However, as we're discussing this in the context of burnout, it's obvious that having a higher meaning did not take me out of my suffering. I still experience life as any other human being, I just feel like my life is not wasted - and the side effects of always striving for a goal - like focus and discipline - and other virtues - are a pleasant bonus. So I do sincerely think, that having a crystalized idea of my purpose creates a happy life for me.

There's nothing wrong with NOT having a goal, I just couldn't do it, even though matter IS ephermal, I believe that every action that we take, ultimately does have meaning.

> even meaningful work becomes mundane once your brain adjusts to it.

Not to demean your experience, but for me (5+ years now of daily grind for one purpose) that statement is very VERY real.

My thinking is - it's just another one of the struggles of doing real meaningful change - there's recurring, long and arduous timespans where no observable/exciting results manifest and one has to trudge forward.

If you know how to ease THAT part, please share (I'm begging you lol).

The single best decision of my life was to attend one.

since we're sharing, here's mine, I've been actively using/improving it since 2012

https://gist.github.com/raveren/bac5196d2063665d2154

> you'll need strict mode for type hints to be useful.

false.

Utterly false, I don't know where you came up with all of that nonsense. All type hints work as expected, just you can't typehint variables. Only parameters/class properties/return types.

And the `strict mode` is a failed experiment no longer recommended in new code (no side effects but no benefits either).

I found a lot of inspiration in this list - each compiled into exe's but ship with the source included:

https://www.dcmembers.com/skrommel/downloads/

And here is my script file (10+ years in the making!), some are the same as from your site (like toggle on top) but with minor improvements:

https://gist.github.com/raveren/bac5196d2063665d2154

Most of these are lifted off of Stardock CursorFX:

https://www.stardock.com/products/cursorfx/

I used to love the big juicy funky cursors!

The pro version had the trailing and click effects (smooth, photo realistic fireballs, yeah!!!)

I currently straight up use the cursor from Starcraft I. It's crazy cool looking, and subtly animated, bot not distracting. I found it a few months ago in my 90s junk folder, I love it.

Here's the *.ani file:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kPJvoH2HNjWtMgJp0DS-fDtbXs3...

If we're talking windows software, since moving on I really really miss Irfanview, it's ridiculous for how long it's been actively developed by one person. It's featherweight, does its job admirably and has a myriad of advanced options when - and only when you need them.

The news are nice, but the RSS feed is terrible - but a headline.