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My own personal experience, but my 80 year old FIL changed a lot after he started going to dance classes. He was always in decent physical health, but prior to the classes he was a very stressed, unhappy, solitary type of person. Since then he's become much more extroverted, social, and generally happier.

Obviously I think the benefits are more than just the dancing itself, such as the community, but even when you ask him directly about what he thinks caused the change he points to dance classes.

Senior Engineer tends to be a catch-all phrase for people who have 3+ years of experience but, for whatever reason, are getting into the next level of promotions (Staff for IC/TLs, manager for EMs). Most people are in this group, and there's nothing wrong with being here.

hey! I was wondering if you'd be willing to explain what project references are and why you would do test config this way?

I'm spending the summer in Canada, where they invest a lot in third spaces, and the difference between Canada and the US in this regard is night and day.

- Parks: A lot of them, every few blocks there's a large, well maintained park. Trash cans everywhere. - Many community centers, huge, filled with extremely inexpensive or free activities. Community centers all have gyms in them. - Beautiful, modern feeling libraries

It's hard to describe the difference, but it is non trivial.

I really appreciated this way of looking at HTMX! Thank you!

Have you used vercel before? It's a lot more than just a layer on AWS. They really understand specifically what Front end engineers need to be productive with their external stakeholders (ie: design, product, etc). I'm sure other products do this now but they were, as far as I know, the first to automatically deploy a version of your app by PR, for example.

Can you do this yourself? Yeah, obviously. But it's a build vs buy conversation and for a lot of people the value that this tooling gives you immediately is worth the buy.

I love me a daily planner, personally. I like having a page per day to organize my thoughts by hand.

There's a notion of "empty commits" (commits without messages) in JJ. These are basically the "staging area" of git, and if you try to `jj git push` it JJ will reject. So these commits cannot make it to the remote branch.

To be honest, JJ makes it way easier for me to craft clean commits. The design philosophy of JJ is commit-oriented, not branch-oriented. Since it's a frontend to git, everything it does is fundamentally git. But it allows commit-oriented workflows to flow so much easier than git does.

It's been my daily driver for the last 3 months, and it's really amazing. Highly recommend trying it out!

I am a fan of the dev branch strategy [1], where I have a specific commit that holds all my customizations that I rebase off of. This blog post has it set up such that git automatically ignore pushing the dev commit, but I haven't really gotten that far yet. I just rebase my branch off current main when I'm ready to push.

[1]: https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/jj-strategy/index.htm...

I use Jiujitsu, and my personal experience is that the basic "write code, git add what specifically I want to history" flow is the same. The working commit is the effective staging area and it doesn't get forever committed to public history. Without going too much in detail, the working commit can't be pushed to your remote, similar to how the staging area can't be pushed.

A while ago I watched this highly disturbing documentary produced by Vice about the prevalence of rape in the DRC as a weapon of war and terror against women. [1]. I have to imagine that this is involved, somehow.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IffpoUQpDc&pp=ygUUdGhlIHZpY...

> nice to see @middayai generative ui features built on @vercel AI sdk midday is becoming one of the best OSS @nextjs real-world apps

I see this quote on your home page. What's your experience using generative UI?

When I started meditating, one of the first things I noticed was how I would stop breathing the moment I got on a computer. Kind of mindblowing that this issue is effecting many people!

> The manager [...] fails to include me or the team

> The director [...] communicates only through [the manager]

It sounds like this is the intended culture of your management structure, or at least in this local hierarchy you exist within. Only you can really tell how negatively this impacts your happiness this is but fwiw, this isn't generally that uncommon of a setup.

I had the opposite experience when my grandparents died -- I watched everybody in my family cling on to ventilators, invasive treatments, and chemotherapy, for both of them to die painfully attached to tubes in an emergency hospital ward. My aunt whispering maniacally to my grandma: "don't go towards the light!" Family members talking over my grandmother's last words.

It taught me a lot too; that I want to be like your grandmother, and not like my family, when my time comes.

> This is because, Artificial Intelligence is very much unlike Human Intelligence.

What an interesting, nuanced take. Thanks for sharing, you've given me a lot to think about.

gorgeous!! did you build the ui yourself or did you use a package to help? how did that go?

Not the original poster, but I do the same. I have a private "therapy/ranting journal" that I use to just write out all my negative thoughts and dump it in there. I find it extremely safe and refreshing to do so. It's mentally the equivalent to me as "throwing it away" because I don't keep my negativity journals. Even if you don't throw away the journal I still highly recommend the practice. It's honestly helped me get through so many difficult situations.

I meet a ton of people at the gym

Hmm, I think there are some kinds of universal cultural expectations that the Deep Springers I know have tended to defy.

Imagine someone went to Harvard, you'd expect that they have a classic high paying industry job.

But instead they are a farmer.

Or it's standard in the culture to be married, but the vast majority of Deep Springers are not.

I agree countercultural is overly vague. At the same time, its hard for the mainstream culture to understand what they take for granted until they come across people who are explicitly unaffected by it.

I'm married to a Deep Springer. I've been lucky to go there once, during the Centennial.

Yes, they are brilliant.

Yes, they are hilariously weird and counter-cultural.

The college is absolutely gorgeous. I would cherish the opportunity to go again.

I didn't know this had a name! This was by far my favorite property of ChakraUI. Thanks!

I recommend trying to build it in something like Minecraft or Roblox. They both have rudimentary environments that are already set up with things like 3D and controls, and can be programmed.

One con: Pens dry out! If you're not regularly writing with them, the vast majority of pens (minus the Platinum ones) will dry out.

Yes, my 20 year old ballpoint pen has dried out. But the vast majority of my ballpoints, gels, etc pens can all be picked up and written with without any regularity. My fountain pens have to be used daily, otherwise they cannot be used.

Hey man, I feel like your comment came from a good place and this might be something that you don't know, but asking lefties to switch hands is a pretty emotionally sensitive topic. In modern society (as recently as 2007) left-handers had strong negative perceptions and left handed children were often forced to write right handed [1]. Forcing people to change has also had effects on their brain structure and chemistry [2].

Personally, my grandmother was forced to switch from left handed to right handed! In those days (early 1900s) the forced switch often came under threat of violence. Yes, they beat children to make them write "right". So this is a sensitive topic for a lot of people!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_against_left-handed_peopl... [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6758284/

wow, i really empathized with this

i was so burnt out upon entering MIT, and now i regret not taking a gap year or something. i feel like i missed out on a great learning opportunity

thank you for writing this. you opened a bit of a window into my past i haven't really processed

Honestly, a huge part of the realization for me was that a majority of my notes are not worth reviewing or keeping!

This is probably just to do with the way that I note keep, but so many of them are junk.

So instead now I take notes on paper in a notebook. A vast majority of them always stay there. Maybe 10% of them get converted into digital notes into Obsidian.

For me, the issue with Coke isn't that one Can can kill you. It's that I never seem to be able to drink only one can.

When I drink Coke, it becomes the primary way I hydrate. So five, six cans a day is not uncommon.

I can't speak for everyone, but I've known plenty of other people who end each workday with 5+ cans of Coke on their desk.

Personally, when I was drinking coke regularly, I was >30% body fat. Now that I've cut Coke completely from my diet, I am ~15%.

Honestly though, I would love for these facts to not be true for me. I miss Coke dearly. It's my favorite drink.

A lot of people use GraphQL. Like everything else, there's pros and cons. If you've invested highly into a certain tool you're going to see all of the pains.