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How wide a timeframe determines multitasking? To me it is watching a YouTube video when you should be coding and possibly shitposting on Teams all at once. The code is never good, and you have a nagging feeling that you should turn the video off. It maybe works for more repetitive things like tweaking large xml files with repeating patterns.

On the other hand, consider a coder who also is trying to make it with a music career. Setting time aside to practice and reach out to open mic nights or other opportunities can’t be multitasking can it?

But as soon as ADHD comes into play, you’re looking at music opportunities when you should be refactoring some badly written class. Right back into multitasking.

So, I've learned to take this in stride, like with gun ownership: most gun deaths in the US are suicide. As more and more gun owners shoot themselves, this is the only mitigation to this crisis.

I’m sure you’re being facetious, but don’t the suicidal people buy guns? It’s not that gun owners are suicidal

Why Git Is Hard 3 years ago

I feel sort of in the same boat, at least from reading this blogpost. Though it might be time for me to master fetch rather than pull. What I wonder is how anyone (read: most people) get by with using GUIs for Git that tend to abstract some of these fundamentals away

Reading the headlines of my favourite newspaper’s front page website gives me anxiety. However, taking the time to read the paper, stories I’m interested in, paragraph by paragraph, is a rare and satisfying treat, where I leave feeling much more informed.