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I have installed the self-hosted free proxy-less version with Linear and its great. The speed unlock in being able to co-locate the task list and the execution of it, especially with a team, is non-trivial. And having many of them running on multiple tasks at the same time, with team multiplayer, is great.

I assign an issue to Cyrus, it executes, we back and forth for a bit, it pushes to Github, I check the preview on Vercel from the link it comes back with. I tell it to merge. And repeat.

I'm not affiliated in any way, BTW.

One of the most amazing things happened during the day long power cut in 2025 in Spain and Portugal... eventually the cell towers went down and everyone just went to the parks and socialised. Connected with friends, strangers. Everyone was so in the moment because there was nowhere else to be, nothing else to distract them. People would pick up their phone and realise there was nothing there for them and put it back down and continue chatting. People were present in a way I've never seen in these places before. It was pretty magical.

Some projects are meant to scope creep. Like this one. If the project manager of the swiss army knife had defended it from scope creep it would have 1 knife.

100,000% I loved it when it was JUST good at terminal rendering. Ghostty alternative. Not a crazy bloatware AI play.

Wow. I was pondering this exact thing when I was thinking about the scourge of ugly graffiti tagging where I live. Sample the wall color and cover it instantly.

The adoption of, or adherence to an "identity" is a very western habit. The thought that you or your value derives from a mental construct or external idea.

It's limiting and dangerous. Limiting because you're relying on a relatively small network in the brain, governed almost entirely by your conscious ideas to provide a set of features of who you are. And dangerous because if something else comes up, if you discover something new about yourself, you change, or your circumstances, or the world around you changes and it affects one of your "identities" - that alteration can leave you lost. As the author seems to be saying.

Instead of these quips of, "you need to know who you are", "who are you?", "know yourself" - we should rather be trying, continually, in a never ending process, to discover ourselves.