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15 years here too. I turn 40 today. Grateful for this community. I quit social media years ago but still enjoy the discourse here.

Pettyjohns Cave is another one on Pigeon Mountain: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pettyjohn_Cave

Used to take creative writing classes there in college. It’s beautiful, just make sure to wear clothes you don’t mind getting covered in mud and try not to go after a big rain because it will flood. Temperature is around 70 year round and it’s mostly hiking. Take a headlamp and a friend, tell someone where you are going, and have fun. Really incredible experience.

I’m 37, married with two kids. Flying to Scotland for a week next Monday.

Life is what you make it. I’m happier than I was at 22, no question.

I think it’s a matter of expectations. I use stock Ubuntu and GNOME and have almost zero customizations. I haven’t touched it except to upgrade since 2018 and have had zero issues. I get it though. I also use an M1 and love it.

I keep count! If I know I had 4 ideas on a run, I can usually bring them back to mind if I focus. Even holding my fingers in the four position with one down helps. Sounds a little odd but I’ve found I do my best work while walking the dog/going for a run and can’t usually make notes until I get home.

Yeah. I think it's silly to make the claim, by and large. For me, using vim is like a hobby. It helps me get into flow state because I have fun writing and editing code using an editor I know well, have configured, and can zip around in fast without touching the mouse. I never try to convince anyone else to use it, though if a coworker shows interest I'm more than happy to oblige. It's the right tool for me. VS Code and IntelliJ products are the right tools for others, and that's cool too.

My usual approach is to comment stuff out while debugging/developing. Works well.

Yeah, but man does he get some great guests from time to time. Really enjoyed Travis Oliphant and Todd Howard in addition to the ones the parent listed.

Y’all are one of my favorite podcasts. Loved the vim and neovim episodes. Heroku and Tauri ones too. Keep up the good work.

Brewing beer/cider/wine: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/

I got an SSL error, fyi. ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID

Appreciate the insight. All fair points. I guess part of the problem is inertia and comfort level. You figure out how to do something well in one language and it gets harder to start from scratch in another one. Point is well made about the tooling and type system--I miss it when I work with anything else. But I end up accomplishing tasks much faster in Go than in Rust even if I'm not fighting the ownership system. I suppose these are the sorts of growing pains that go away in time.

We self host Mattermost and it works well. Logs are in Postgres which is nice. Building the React Native app was not super fun but we have some experience in that already which helped.

It's a good alternative for teams unwilling to shell out every month for a Slack subscription, if you're willing to put in the work to get it setup.

This is a good approach. More people should do this. I should do this.

I’m horrible about this. I ask a question and then answer it, hold a whole conversation with myself and the poor recipient. Someone take away my Mattermost login!

Interesting! Appreciate the info

Thanks for the links! I like the idea of a changed mindset. That sort of thing can be useful in and of itself as an educational exercise.

Honestly? I’m interested in it and wanted an excuse to give it a try. No more compelling reason than that.

Thanks for the insight! I am the team--everything before was done quite manually with spreadsheets. I already work in the organization but have been promoted out of development into this new role so I'm blessed to have a large amount of flexibility. It does seem like Python is the right tool for the job. Your perspective confirms my hunch.

This happened to me the other day with sqlx. Tried to duplicate the quick start example and got a slew of errors. I should make a ticket, maybe I did something wrong.

That's good to know! I got burned pretty bad trying to switch away from actix-web to one of the other frameworks (rocket, gotham, warp) after the whole kerfuffle and lost my taste for Rust as a backend web language as a result. Seeing your experience makes me want to try again with only hyper! I've always heard it was too "low level" and never gave it a proper look as a result.

I love this and have also used a txt file for years. I’ve moved from Google Docs to Vimwiki to org mode for notes, todos, and journaling. Most recently I’ve started incorporating a moleskine notebook to take to meetings for note taking and it’s been a nice addition. Sometimes I’ll copy notes over from it to org so that it’s all in one place, but I’ve found it isn’t too hard to page back through it to find something I wrote weeks or months ago if I have a general sense of when I wrote it. Plus the experience of taking notes with a Pilot G2 is just more fun than using a ballpoint on a legal pad. Maybe that’s just me.

100% agree about seeing a therapist. I also resisted for years because I thought it was a waste of time and money. Now that I see one once a week I've come to realize how useful it can be to have a person you can go to who is paid to be laser focused on your mental well being for an hour at a time. One thing mine has encouraged me to do is journal. It helps air out the negative thought patterns that infect my behavior and also serves as a good way to synthesize ideas. I set aside 10-15 minutes at lunch to write in a moleskine notebook.

My problems are more related to anxiety and depression, but the same concepts apply. I also think that you get out of therapy what you put in. It sounds like you are in a good frame of mind because you want to improve yourself. That's probably the best attitude you could take going into therapy.

Reqwest: https://docs.rs/reqwest/0.9.20/reqwest/

Thanks for the link! The async/await code is definitely easier to parse mentally. Look forward to the release.

Oh good point about the lock file, hadn't thought about that. Will there be a compelling reason to rewrite stuff using async/await? I get that it will be the right way going forward but curious about the benefits for legacy stuff.

As a long time Windows users, I could not understand why anyone would love emacs. It's slow on Windows and locked up often for me. When I switched to Linux on the desktop though, I understood. Input latency in emacs is less than in gnome terminal for me. Never thought I would say that emacs feel snappier than vim, but that seems to be the case in my current setup. Also, I recently discovered magit and now I don't hate using git anymore.

Have you tried the mintty solution for WSL?

https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

I've found it to be the most consistent and performant. Still not the same as being in a native Linux environment, of course, but it's the closest I've been able to get in Windows.

I use vimwiki. Simple, light-weight, and does exactly what I need. I also use org mode in spacemacs with evil, but so far I haven't come across any functionality in org mode that I needed that vimwiki didn't also provide.

https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

I use it for the same reason I use bash history--to view, edit, and reuse ex commands. I'm not surprised that there is a way to customize evil to get to something similar, but my point was that it doesn't work out of the box the way vim does. I've no doubt that it could be implemented, and could file an issue as you suggest, but as someone who uses vim as my daily driver all I can say is every time I fire up evil I run into something like that which immediately turns me off. I guess I just don't have enough appetite for customizing my editor to take up emacs. Just noticed that :h doesn't open the vim help (of course, why should it, this is emacs), but there again, something I use several times a day. I could go on. A big reason I haven't tried harder is that there is no easy path to converting an existing .vimrc to elisp, and over the years I've spent enough time configuring vim to work just the way I want.