giordanol

Bamboo growth pattern - years of invisible growth underground, then it suddenly shoots up 90 feet.

Easy to forget how long the roots were forming.

Publishing early work feels pointless until you look back and realise the later stuff couldn't exist without it. Same goes for any expressive work. Sounds like a platitude, but it really is all about the process.

The tooling problem is 90% solved. The new technical bottleneck is human judgment.

Feels like a semi-simple UX fix could make this a lot more natural. Git-style forks but for chats.

Would love to see metrics that isolate recovery behaviour (if any)

funny how much the tools you first get comfortable with shape everything after. even today, setting up a simple clean c environment is way harder than it should be for beginners. tutorials like this help, but eventually pointing people toward gcc or clang early on makes a huge difference long term.

font licensing feels like it never caught up with how software actually gets made now. charging more for app use than for mass print always seemed backwards, especially when indie devs are scraping by and a font costs more than your backend. no wonder people end up using “free alternatives” without looking too hard at where they came from.