as much as @sopha has its heart in the right place, i think i'm gonna follow @jtgi's lead. he had it right.
go deep. don't double down on the shallows.
peace. ✌️
surgery went well. better than I had hoped, even.
I can straighten my leg all the way for the first time since August.
my body keeps getting choked up about little improvements in function, after so many months of nothing but disability and decline.
surgery is in literally six hours and i'm out here setting up github actions runners and tailscale on my homelab so that i can keep working during recovery
... i have become the thing i swore to destroy
the moving staircases in Hogwarts scream "tech debt" to me
someone was definitely like "oh this will just be a temporary workaround until we can refactor the west wing"
something that is very exciting and also concerning to me is that i think the current importance of frameworks and tools is going to go away
maybe it will just shift, but, like, a lot of frameworks are developed to save devs time and energy, but the tradeoff is usually that they come with opinions
but if you can spin up a bespoke solution that has perfect alignment with the opinions of your product, then what's the advantage?
which i think means that software development will shift very heavily to become business solution development. there will be no reason to build tools for tools' sake anymore
does this mean that software platforms are dead if they're not bespoke enough and the cost of developing an alternative is the same as paying for Salesforce?
i'm also worried about "open source rot", as package maintenance becomes unattractive
eg. i went looking for a speech-to-text utility last night and found a dozen, half of which hadn't been updated in a year, and a handful of which felt like trash garbage
i wonder if the reason i've pretty much stopped listening to music is that the world i'm living in feels so different to anything i've ever been comforted by in the past
currently thinking about how three months ago i asked claude "what does the workflow look like at a real dev shop" and now i'm doing smoke tests and rolling deployments
actually, lol, i was wrong and we could've gone live that day. but now we will finish this all-nighter and go live on a random Tuesday, which we should all be happy about.
forgot to enable swap on Pop!_OS, lol.
miraculously, i haven't needed it until 5 minutes ago. 16GB RAM was somehow plenty.
also miraculously, i already had a 50GB partition sitting around on my SSD that was available for use.
the smartest thing in your house will always be you.
your brain already has built-in timers for the lamp and the stove.
simplicity is legibility; and reading comprehension is agency. the true power user wants a light switch, not a smart bulb.
