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2pie··on LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown
Are you sure ? It would be faster than most electron based editors
2pie··on The RSS feed reader landscape
What bugs did you have ? I am still using it and am very happy with it.
2pie··on I deleted my second brain
>It hit me: what got me here won’t get me where I need to be next.

This resonates a lot. I always have this feeling when I am browsing old notes.

2pie··on Do you want to be doing this when you're 50? (2012)
I fully agree with you. After a few happy experiences in development, I started to work as a developer for an ERP service company. I was served functional spec that I had to implement. I only had to look at the technical of things, and I quickly became bored.

So I transitioned to a client-facing role which was more interesting in a way, but with too much stress and too much management to do.

Now I try to find my niche in between, staying client facing but still handling the technical tasks. I find it's a really interesting position, it's very efficient since it reduce the amount of necessary communication, and it's very satisfying.

It does not work for big projects though.

2pie··on Technical debt vs. technical assets: What's the difference?
I am not sure : when you take a loan at the bank, the lender is the bank, not you in the future. In the case of tech debt : who is the bank ?
2pie··on Technical debt vs. technical assets: What's the difference?
Something I've never understood when I tried to think about tech debt : who is the lender?
2pie··on 20 Years of Gmail
Isn't it because Gmail is both client and server, and therefore is not limited to the IMAP protocol ?
2pie··on 20 Years of Gmail
I've been using thunderbird for years and I still find search to be bad. I've never really made experiments to see why it's bad, but often I type the name of a correspondant to find a particular message, but I don't find it. I guess I am used to the fuzzy search magic that happens in other software.
2pie··on How I listen to music
I'd be interested in resources you could share for baroque guitar playing. I play guitar and I love baroque music, but I didn't mix these two hobbys so far. I can read music, but I am a bit slow.
2pie··on Ledger
Wow didn't know there was a mobile app. How do you sync?
2pie··on Ledger
Their tutorial and concept guide is quite good, also to understand basic accounting concepts: https://gnucash-docs-rst.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#
2pie··on Ledger
Ouch, this is painful indeed. I thought all banks provided a way to download transactions in a machine-readable format.
2pie··on Write a Letter to Your Future Self
Do they send email marketing?
2pie··on Grist is a modern, relational spreadsheet
I would make a difference between "design" and "a lot of small and convenient functionalities that makes your life easier".

People prefer gsheet to calc not because of one big missing functionality, because as you say, you can always find a way. It's more that excel/gsheet makes your life way easier, and saves you a lot of time.

I use both gsheet (for work) and calc (for personal stuff). I really want to give calc a chance so I accept the excess time it takes me to use it, but I understand that some people don't. And I would not say that it's related to "feelings", it's more a problem of "ease of use" and "doing things fast".