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Totally useless commentary: It makes me deeply happy to hear success stories like this for a project that's moving in the correctly opposite direction to that

Totally useless commentary: It makes me deeply happy to hear success stories like this for a project that's moving in the correctly opposite direction to that of the rest of the world. Engildification. Of which there should be more! My soul was also satisfied by the Sleeping At Night post which, along with the recent "Lie Still in Bed" article, makes for very simple options to attempt to fix sleep (discipline) issues.

brutusborn 3y ago
Not useless at all, thanks for posting! I’ve been struggling with sleep this year and finding out what works for others is very useful. I wouldn’t have found it if not for your comment. Link for others interested: https://www.marginalia.nu/log/86-sleep/ https://www.marginalia.nu/log/86-sleep/
noman-land 3y ago
I like this term, engildification.
- BLKNSLVR 3y ago
  I was aiming for as opposite as possible to the overused (although often unfortunately appropriate) enshittification.
  - vaylian 3y ago
    Did you come up with it just for this post? It would be good to document it for the sake of "first known use".
    - bytefactory 3y ago
      I'm unreasonably excited about possibly witnessing a new popular term coming into being!
      - BLKNSLVR 3y ago
        It's far too infrequent an occurrence to become popularly used...
        vaylian 3y ago
        Then we should do more good things that warrant the use of the word!
    - BLKNSLVR 3y ago
      I did, yes, but incredibly derived from enshittification (for which I believe we can thank Cory Doctorow). Having said that, I did look up 'gild' to make sure I was using a semi-obscure word at the opposite end of the scale that begins with 'shit'. Coming up with new words is surprisingly easy when there's an existing word requiring of a foil. Don't give me too much credit for this, I need to maintain my current level of almost total obscurity in order keep pumping out the quality ;)
      - thom 3y ago
        It's interesting because traditionally "gold plating" can have connotations of overdoing something, making something slow and expensive that could have been simpler.
        HeckFeck 3y ago
        That would be how outsiders see those who don't shirk the extra work that goes into building their own infrastructure to escape the merchants of convenience.
keyle 3y ago
It's a breath of fresh air to read of someone that - cut his resources burning in half, - is more productive with a smaller screen than before, and - sleeps like a log at night (his 3 last blog posts!)
- tannhaeuser 3y ago
  I can totally relate to the screen post. Mine is even 24" (after having messed around with 27" and 32"). I think it's something not talked about enough (ie manufacturers mostly producing crap monitors when it cones to small diameters, with the exception of LG/Apple and Dell AFAICT), and deserves an extra post.
  - thom 3y ago
    Do you just use a single screen? I've noticed a trend that people seem to be moving to one giant screen (and now apparently one small one), instead of dual monitors. I don't think it should be forgotten what an enormous productivity boost multiple monitors are, whatever the resolution.
    - loup-vaillant 3y ago
      > I don't think it should be forgotten what an enormous productivity boost multiple monitors are, whatever the resolution. Or tiling window managers with virtual workspaces. When most applications I use are two keystrokes away, the need for more than one screen seriously lessens. Besides, looking at a screen on the side hurts my neck.
    - steve1977 3y ago
      Not OP, but multiple monitors don’t work well for me. Primarily due to ergonomic issues, but probably also because I don’t really multitask.
      - thom 3y ago
        I've never really seen it as multi-tasking, just that a lot of knowledge work involves inputs and outputs (edit web page/ previous web page, edit code/view test results, read requirements/write spec etc). Those can often be separate windows and being able to focus on either at will works well for me.
throwaway290 3y ago
When I stay up late and go on a walk after morning coffee I just walk like a zombie then fall asleep for the rest of the day. I think it is rationalization, maybe something else changed for the better and then you'd both want to go for a walk and also sleep better.
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sph 3y ago
It's a function of scale: the larger the team/company behind the product, the greater its enshittification factor/potential. The author recently went full time on their Marginalia search engine, AFAIK it's a team size of 1, so it's the farthest away from any enshittification risk. Au contraire, like you say: it's at these sizes where you make jewels. Where creativity, ingenuity and vision shines. This comment is sponsored by the "quit your desk job and go work for yourself" gang.
- scyzoryk_xyz 3y ago
  I would wonder if there wouldn’t be inherent survivorship bias that would only make it seem like most smaller projects are as you call them “jewels”. The small bad ones don’t make it to you, but the big ones are too big to fail that sort of thing. Could extend that to big good ones being less surprising and normal because “it just works”.
- paulsutter 3y ago
  Yeah! Elon could have already landed on Mars if he’d just built the rockets himself /s
  - sph 3y ago
    Elon is running a company, not working a desk job for someone else. The point is following YOUR vision, either by yourself on your project, or by running your OWN company. The goal is intellectual and creative freedom. Or don't, I guess the world needs its mindless drones, that discourage everybody else from taking the leap and following their dreams.
    - rebolek 3y ago
      Fortunately, he's running multiple companies and he can't focus on all of them, so SpaceX can work fine, unlike the company formerly known as Twitter which he is right now focused on running and ruining it.
      - 3y ago
not_your_vase 3y ago
> Engildification. Of which there should be more! There are. You will just never find them with Google.
- ricardo81 3y ago
  TBF, it looks like this is the first place the word is mentioned. Bing seems to treat it as a spelling mistake for anglicization to an extent. Great word though.

brutusborn 3y ago

Not useless at all, thanks for posting! I’ve been struggling with sleep this year and finding out what works for others is very useful. I wouldn’t have found it if not for your comment. Link for others interested: https://www.marginalia.nu/log/86-sleep/ https://www.marginalia.nu/log/86-sleep/

noman-land 3y ago

I like this term, engildification.

BLKNSLVR 3y ago
I was aiming for as opposite as possible to the overused (although often unfortunately appropriate) enshittification.
- vaylian 3y ago
  Did you come up with it just for this post? It would be good to document it for the sake of "first known use".
  - bytefactory 3y ago
    I'm unreasonably excited about possibly witnessing a new popular term coming into being!
    - BLKNSLVR 3y ago
      It's far too infrequent an occurrence to become popularly used...
      - vaylian 3y ago
        Then we should do more good things that warrant the use of the word!
  - BLKNSLVR 3y ago
    I did, yes, but incredibly derived from enshittification (for which I believe we can thank Cory Doctorow). Having said that, I did look up 'gild' to make sure I was using a semi-obscure word at the opposite end of the scale that begins with 'shit'. Coming up with new words is surprisingly easy when there's an existing word requiring of a foil. Don't give me too much credit for this, I need to maintain my current level of almost total obscurity in order keep pumping out the quality ;)
    - thom 3y ago
      It's interesting because traditionally "gold plating" can have connotations of overdoing something, making something slow and expensive that could have been simpler.
      - HeckFeck 3y ago
        That would be how outsiders see those who don't shirk the extra work that goes into building their own infrastructure to escape the merchants of convenience.

keyle 3y ago

It's a breath of fresh air to read of someone that - cut his resources burning in half, - is more productive with a smaller screen than before, and - sleeps like a log at night (his 3 last blog posts!)

tannhaeuser 3y ago
I can totally relate to the screen post. Mine is even 24" (after having messed around with 27" and 32"). I think it's something not talked about enough (ie manufacturers mostly producing crap monitors when it cones to small diameters, with the exception of LG/Apple and Dell AFAICT), and deserves an extra post.
- thom 3y ago
  Do you just use a single screen? I've noticed a trend that people seem to be moving to one giant screen (and now apparently one small one), instead of dual monitors. I don't think it should be forgotten what an enormous productivity boost multiple monitors are, whatever the resolution.
  - loup-vaillant 3y ago
    > I don't think it should be forgotten what an enormous productivity boost multiple monitors are, whatever the resolution. Or tiling window managers with virtual workspaces. When most applications I use are two keystrokes away, the need for more than one screen seriously lessens. Besides, looking at a screen on the side hurts my neck.
  - steve1977 3y ago
    Not OP, but multiple monitors don’t work well for me. Primarily due to ergonomic issues, but probably also because I don’t really multitask.
    - thom 3y ago
      I've never really seen it as multi-tasking, just that a lot of knowledge work involves inputs and outputs (edit web page/ previous web page, edit code/view test results, read requirements/write spec etc). Those can often be separate windows and being able to focus on either at will works well for me.

throwaway290 3y ago

When I stay up late and go on a walk after morning coffee I just walk like a zombie then fall asleep for the rest of the day. I think it is rationalization, maybe something else changed for the better and then you'd both want to go for a walk and also sleep better.

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sph 3y ago

It's a function of scale: the larger the team/company behind the product, the greater its enshittification factor/potential. The author recently went full time on their Marginalia search engine, AFAIK it's a team size of 1, so it's the farthest away from any enshittification risk. Au contraire, like you say: it's at these sizes where you make jewels. Where creativity, ingenuity and vision shines. This comment is sponsored by the "quit your desk job and go work for yourself" gang.

scyzoryk_xyz 3y ago
I would wonder if there wouldn’t be inherent survivorship bias that would only make it seem like most smaller projects are as you call them “jewels”. The small bad ones don’t make it to you, but the big ones are too big to fail that sort of thing. Could extend that to big good ones being less surprising and normal because “it just works”.
paulsutter 3y ago
Yeah! Elon could have already landed on Mars if he’d just built the rockets himself /s
- sph 3y ago
  Elon is running a company, not working a desk job for someone else. The point is following YOUR vision, either by yourself on your project, or by running your OWN company. The goal is intellectual and creative freedom. Or don't, I guess the world needs its mindless drones, that discourage everybody else from taking the leap and following their dreams.
  - rebolek 3y ago
    Fortunately, he's running multiple companies and he can't focus on all of them, so SpaceX can work fine, unlike the company formerly known as Twitter which he is right now focused on running and ruining it.
    - 3y ago

not_your_vase 3y ago

> Engildification. Of which there should be more! There are. You will just never find them with Google.

ricardo81 3y ago
TBF, it looks like this is the first place the word is mentioned. Bing seems to treat it as a spelling mistake for anglicization to an extent. Great word though.