Eudaimion

> It's pseudoscience, author would benefit from reading (and memorizing) the current scientific literature on learning and cognition.

How so? Can you share what you have read and that is relevant and applicable in real life?

> There's a bad trend, Hacker News gets this kind of blog-style self-promotion every month that gets much comment attention, but the essays are not well-researched and with made-up assertions written by programmers talking out of their lane ("Engineer's disease") and not having done homework on the subject.

You are on the wrong site, this is not a scientific journal there is no need for scientific rigor in every post and comment.

P.S. The real life world is full of events and things happening if you cannot learn by yourself (create theories models on how the world works aka. pseudoscience apparently) and need academic verification for everything. Then you some kind of disorder :/ good luck

> Is there anything substantive here? There is plenty.

If you did not find anything interesting or anything that made you think, in the comments or the post itself. Then is your own failure.

Is Cahier built on top of Zotero? It looks very similar.

Good notetaking support is something Zotero lacks, so I see the appeal for an alternative that focuses more on it.

Post and comments have to be unique or unheard of, otherwise the can't be made or are invalid. What???

Recently tried Svelte and feel the same way about React. I dread the idea of ever working on a React project again. (React 19 might mitigate these feelings)

Do you have any recent examples? Skype acquisition was more than a decade ago ( during the Ballmar era).

You are taking things, way too seriously.

> I’m also skeptical of advice from someone who has only recently discovered a possible solution for his very personal problems and feels he should share it with the world.

Advice should never be just taken at face value. Even if it is a successful person giving it. Personally, any advice from Elon Musk is worth less, than any random link on HN.

> The author should just quietly repair his life and shelve his egotistical need for external validation.

This is just mean.

I one hundred percent guarantee that there are other people, with the same problem as the author. And his solution will be useful. Sharing is a net good.

TL;DR through a Dev World Prism: No, I completely disagree that only staff engineers should be allowed to have technical blogs.

I am surprised that people are surprised about this. iCloud runs mostly on GCP. All of the storage in iCloud relies on Google Cloud Storage.

PS. This is the reason why many people call Vercel, the Apple of the dev world. Vercel offers services that have great user experience, but under the hood are mostly wrapped AWS services.

I completely agree that different types of books need to be approached differently.

I especially look for Progression Fantasy books(zero reader participation needed) to listen to when I don't have the energy to consume anything serious.

I've also had interesting experiences with some technical non-fiction books, where I've zoned into the content and understood it better than I would have reading it.

If you find this interesting, I would also recommend https://ciechanow.ski/bicycle/. It is by the same author.

OOP, Multi-Service Architecture, Technical Documentation, Vim, Github

What do we do? There are infinite methods, tools, apps, and only so many hours in a day. Do you just keep trying tools/methodologies till one clicks with you?

It's the same in the productivity world as it is in the programming one. Problems never have a perfect solution and you have limited resources and different bottlenecks. People come up with different things, that work for them, that might not work for others.

You can find interesting things if you overlap Software and Personal Behavior resources

Personal resources: time, energy, friction, memory, agency Software resources: time, computation complexity, memory, business logic

Your parents and other people who cannot learn the basics of new technology need to use devices in parental mod. It is as simple as that. They should not force everyone else to be on their level of needs.

Apple is anti-competitive and practically hostile towards developers so this is not a IPhone vs Android issue. So the "Go back to where you came from" rhetoric does not work.

If you are interested in randomness, then you will enjoy the book "Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder" - Nassim Taleb. It explores a lot of topics related to randomness and how it can be beneficial.