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The problem with these threads is that skill is largely in how you use these tools. It's very hard to communicate techniques with just a list of tools. I have
by Herring 17y ago
The problem with these threads is that skill is largely in how you use these tools. It's very hard to communicate techniques with just a list of tools. I have no solution.
- silentbicycle 17y agoFurthermore, there are very diminishing returns in obsessing about your tools themselves. Sometimes, tinkering with your emacs config (or whatever) is just procrastinating.
- pookleblinky 17y agoSometimes, though, this procrastination does wonders. Like bonzai tree gardening, or a Zen gravel garden. As someone who uses Gentoo, Xmonad, Zshell, and Emacs, there's more than enough config code to tweak than there are hours in the day. The happy result is that if I'm stumped, I always know I can pop open a buffer and hack something a bit. Hell, the alternative to wasting your time in a fully hackable environment is wasting your time on the interwebs. If you're going to procrastinate, you could do worse than by hacking .emacs. Like Runescape.
- silentbicycle 17y agoI don't think the problem is so much that it's procrastination, but it's procrastination that seems like work. Like people noodling around with their "productivity systems". Having the option to customize things is worthwhile (I use Emacs, dwm, and screen, and have accumulated a lot of settings for each), but it's a means to an end. When I'm hitting a dead end, I usually find it more helpful to get away from the computer entirely and go for a bike ride, work out, talk to someone, have some fruit, etc., and see the problem with a fresh mind later.