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- Your eyes are the only broadband connection into the brain, and they have millenia of pattern recognition training built into them. When solving problems like

- Your eyes are the only broadband connection into the brain, and they have millenia of pattern recognition training built into them. When solving problems like debugging, refactoring or data preparation, consider arranging information in a way that takes advantage of this. When it's in the right shape, irregularities or patterns will often just jump at you. - Relatedly, your eyes are also extremely well-adapted to detecting movement and optical flow. Do these two images/texts/logs/terminal outputs/etc. differ? Do they differ if you ignore the hue/time stamps/pwd? Alt-tab back and forth between them and you will notice. (Beware of fancy effects or menus covering it though - it has to be an instant switch from one to the other). - Become fluent in regular expressions (recommendation: https://regexcrossword.com/ https://regexcrossword.com/).

analog31 6y ago
Oddly enough I can't use IDE's. They simply throw way too much information on the screen, and my brain gets overloaded. So I have to sheepishly confess that I do my programming in IDLE. There, I said it. But I think a take-home lesson is that the "right" visual environment is a function of your eyes and your brain, and might not necessarily be the most sophisticated environment.
- fish45 6y ago
  just wondering, why idle instead of vscode with minimal extensions, or sublime text maybe?
  - analog31 6y ago
    Excellent question. Actually my cube mate uses vscode and is happy with it, and the latest incarnations of WinPython come with vscode built in. So maybe I owe it to myself. For now, my "IDE" is Idle on one side and Stackoverflow on the other. ;-)
- mekster 6y ago
  > They simply throw way too much information on the screen You can usually just hide them. I hide everything but the file explorer, the code itself and recently I turned on line numbers but no tool bar or task bar or that distracting mini map which I feel it serves no purpose than being cool for some people.
kanyethegreat 6y ago
I spent a short time trying to find a pretty diff tool, but couldn't really find one to my liking. So just ended up using a bash function that did some decorating on the diff output.
- mekster 6y ago
  Which OS? For macOS, Kaleidoscope is quite pretty.
kqr 6y ago
> - Your eyes are the only broadband connection into the brain, and they have millenia of pattern recognition training built into them. This is also true of your ears. If you can find a way to convert what's going on into sound, you can very accurately pick up inconsistencies by ear. (This is why you sometimes want to bring a stethoscope into the machine room.)

analog31 6y ago

Oddly enough I can't use IDE's. They simply throw way too much information on the screen, and my brain gets overloaded. So I have to sheepishly confess that I do my programming in IDLE. There, I said it. But I think a take-home lesson is that the "right" visual environment is a function of your eyes and your brain, and might not necessarily be the most sophisticated environment.

fish45 6y ago
just wondering, why idle instead of vscode with minimal extensions, or sublime text maybe?
- analog31 6y ago
  Excellent question. Actually my cube mate uses vscode and is happy with it, and the latest incarnations of WinPython come with vscode built in. So maybe I owe it to myself. For now, my "IDE" is Idle on one side and Stackoverflow on the other. ;-)
mekster 6y ago
> They simply throw way too much information on the screen You can usually just hide them. I hide everything but the file explorer, the code itself and recently I turned on line numbers but no tool bar or task bar or that distracting mini map which I feel it serves no purpose than being cool for some people.

kanyethegreat 6y ago

I spent a short time trying to find a pretty diff tool, but couldn't really find one to my liking. So just ended up using a bash function that did some decorating on the diff output.

mekster 6y ago
Which OS? For macOS, Kaleidoscope is quite pretty.

kqr 6y ago

> - Your eyes are the only broadband connection into the brain, and they have millenia of pattern recognition training built into them. This is also true of your ears. If you can find a way to convert what's going on into sound, you can very accurately pick up inconsistencies by ear. (This is why you sometimes want to bring a stethoscope into the machine room.)