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I'm so glad there are people like you to tell me the best way to do my job without even knowing what I do - it must be a real skill. Yes, it would be possible

I'm so glad there are people like you to tell me the best way to do my job without even knowing what I do - it must be a real skill. Yes, it would be possible to curate my tabs better, but I often have quite a few things on the boil at any one time and taking time out to carefully prune my tabs holds up delivery. I actually tried to subsist on a 8GB M1 for a few months, I managed to survive, but context switching became painfully slow as I'd have to shut down large parts of my tool chain and carefully prune off browser tabs. It was a serious productivity drain. It turns out that the heavy IDE is heavy for a reason, it provides useful capabilities! The kind of capabilities one needs as a professional software developer. When one is working on a foreign code base spanning thousands of files, it's genuinely handy to have some tooling to help you find your way around. VS Code tries, but it's generally pretty useless in my experience.

csdvrx 5y ago
> I actually tried to subsist on a 8GB M1 for a few months, I managed to survive, but context switching became painfully slow as I'd have to shut down large parts of my tool chain and carefully prune off browser tabs. It was a serious productivity drain. A friend recommended I try such a RAM diet, so I went from 64Gb to a 4Gb laptop. Unlike you, I've found it helped me focus. So I've kept this laptop as a "productivity" laptop - when I work on a tight deadline, I use it, because there will be 0 risk of context switching :)
- webmobdev 5y ago
  This is such a typical Apple fanboi type response - you are the one using it wrong.
  - csdvrx 5y ago
    Dude, I'm a Windows fangirl...
- antifa 5y ago
  I think what you found helpful was the ability to pause a session, then return to it later. I think the ability to do this without buying a second laptop would be very useful.
kitsunesoba 5y ago
It’s not for everybody, but for helping manage tab overload the tab groups added to Safari in Monterey have been a massive boon for me. At least in my case most tabs fit fairly well into one of ten or so groups, and so management is as simple as switching my main Safari window to the group relevant at that point in time. The unused groups are slept after a certain period of inactivity, which means that most of the time Safari is only consuming the resources required by a single set of tabs. It’s pretty nice.
- scoopertrooper 5y ago
  I had an auto-discarder plugin for Chrome to a similar effect. I also tried switching to Firefox, which also improved matters somewhat. I don't think I'd have survived at all with a 8GB device at all otherwise! However, doing something as basic as loading up a large Java project (like Kafka) in Intellij would cause the the laptop to die a horrible death when it tried to resolve the Maven dependencies.
horns4lyfe 5y ago
There’s no way having hundreds of chrome tabs open is actually beneficial to you.

csdvrx 5y ago

> I actually tried to subsist on a 8GB M1 for a few months, I managed to survive, but context switching became painfully slow as I'd have to shut down large parts of my tool chain and carefully prune off browser tabs. It was a serious productivity drain. A friend recommended I try such a RAM diet, so I went from 64Gb to a 4Gb laptop. Unlike you, I've found it helped me focus. So I've kept this laptop as a "productivity" laptop - when I work on a tight deadline, I use it, because there will be 0 risk of context switching :)

webmobdev 5y ago
This is such a typical Apple fanboi type response - you are the one using it wrong.
- csdvrx 5y ago
  Dude, I'm a Windows fangirl...
antifa 5y ago
I think what you found helpful was the ability to pause a session, then return to it later. I think the ability to do this without buying a second laptop would be very useful.

kitsunesoba 5y ago

It’s not for everybody, but for helping manage tab overload the tab groups added to Safari in Monterey have been a massive boon for me. At least in my case most tabs fit fairly well into one of ten or so groups, and so management is as simple as switching my main Safari window to the group relevant at that point in time. The unused groups are slept after a certain period of inactivity, which means that most of the time Safari is only consuming the resources required by a single set of tabs. It’s pretty nice.

scoopertrooper 5y ago
I had an auto-discarder plugin for Chrome to a similar effect. I also tried switching to Firefox, which also improved matters somewhat. I don't think I'd have survived at all with a 8GB device at all otherwise! However, doing something as basic as loading up a large Java project (like Kafka) in Intellij would cause the the laptop to die a horrible death when it tried to resolve the Maven dependencies.

horns4lyfe 5y ago

There’s no way having hundreds of chrome tabs open is actually beneficial to you.