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What a strangely hostile thing to say to somebody's earnest post about their setup.
by akerl_ 5mo ago
What a strangely hostile thing to say to somebody's earnest post about their setup.
- altairprime 5mo agoFlatly: “How dare you lovingly handcraft a bespoke wordworking tool when you could have written a short story instead! We hackers would never spend time improving our circumstances to create more efficient flow states going forward rather than just drearily producing output less efficiently!”
- kaashif 5mo agoWell if it's strangely hostile I'm sorry but "I need to focus on writing so I spent a few days stripping down a Linux distro" seems pretty disconnected. I mean it's a fun project! But it really reminds me of something I would do that isn't entirely positive.
- akerl_ 5mo agoDisconnected from what? The reason it feels hostile is because you led with a joke about the whole thing being a big mistake, but also that the author wrote about a thing they built to solve a problem they had and ended their post by saying that it worked, and you've popped up to pitch that it might not work.
- kaashif 5mo agoThere isn't any joke in my comment. Apologies for the confusion.
- crimsontech 5mo agoI don't think it was meant to be hostile. It is a pattern I always find myself repeating personally. I think they just recognised it as something they do themselves. If I feel like I have too many things to do, I can end up installing all sorts of todo list apps instead of doing the things. When I feel like a need a nap, I look up optimal nap times, end up reading stuff and then realising I missed the window I could have had a nap in. I've set up vimwiki and loads of other note taking type apps (or knowledge management apps as they are often called now) and I export my notes from one system into another, and forget to use it.