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gauchojs··on How I read books: a guide on how to learn
I'm probably missing number 2. Its only half a joke - I really don't reflect on stuff I read very frequently.
gauchojs··on Digital Tools I Wish Existed
I signed up with no indication that it was a paid service with no free tier. Felt a little played tbh.
gauchojs··on How to Think for Yourself
Most likely, those experiences wouldn't be as remarkable as those who missed it imagine. Still...
gauchojs··on As internet forums die off, finding community can be harder than ever
I've been following Obsidian (https://forum.obsidian.md/) for a couple weeks and so got the chance to use a modern (I think) forum system. Its so much better than browsing Twitter/Reddit..
gauchojs··on Ask HN: How to safely execute user code in browser (like observablehq)?
Maybe you use Duktape or https://bellard.org/quickjs/ to make a sandbox?
gauchojs··on Ask HN: Has anyone else just gotten bored of the Internet?
I'd say Youtube is still full of interesting niches, but you won't find it on trending.
gauchojs··on Dear ImGui – Bloat-free graphical user interface library for C++
I love it until I have to do modals..
gauchojs··on Ask HN: Is D3 still king for JavaScript visualisation?
Yes - it seems so. Case in point, a library to make charts in React Native is mostly using d3-shape and d3-scale to generate SVG paths:

https://github.com/JesperLekland/react-native-svg-charts/blo...

gauchojs··on Ask HN: Do you think 'normal' working will ever return?
My ideal situation would be to share a small office space (or room) in my neighborhood, with 3-5 colleagues that also live around here. I can't really work from cafeteria types of places.
gauchojs··on How I remember what I learn
Similarly, I've been putting meeting notes, life decisions and reading notes in RoamResearch in the hopes that it can replace my "crappy" natural memory at least a little bit. But I haven't really collected any fruits from it (a few months now).
gauchojs··on We Don’t Like Our Underground House
Still, there isn't a single picture from inside the house. A video showing how is it to live inside a hill etc..
gauchojs··on Emacs-Helm development is now stalled
Moved from Emacs to ST then VSCode a few years ago, but still miss how that community feels (the software, the people, the discussions, EmacsWiki...)

IIRC I used to move around mostly using ido.el, when anything.el and later Helm appeared with their alternative way of displaying results, using half the window.

But then at some point got sick of the text UI and moved to Sublime Text. Probably multi-cursors made me move?

For a few years I remember opening Emacs exclusively for https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/grep-edit.el.

I feel like Emacs is full of those hidden gems that only a hundred people use.

gauchojs··on Is anybody still using Windows 95?
Why did you update from 5.1?
gauchojs··on Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS
Tried now and the .5s delay that happens sometimes already kills this for me...
gauchojs··on Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS
I was just thinking how the app icon is more than enough to identify each window and thumnails don't make sense to me. You can disable thumbnails in the configuration.
gauchojs··on Attention is your scarcest resource
In the morning?
gauchojs··on Ask HN: What technology to chose for a web app in 2020?
Since I'm doing several parts of the stack, this year I went full Typescript...
gauchojs··on Show HN: InstaNote – notes in a simple chat interface
In case anyone isn't aware, the trick is to create a group with any contact and then remove them. Mine is pinned to the top and named Notes - and unfortunately is the most robust way to share images and notes from desktop to Android (I tried Pusbullet and Join too)
gauchojs··on Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK
I agree - for me, its about continuing to use React/Python/Go/Node for new projects, instead of trying (say) Elixir or Clojure. I'm already much less focused..

For Pieter its about staying with PHP.

gauchojs··on Using Obsidian to manage goals, tasks, notes, and software dev knowledge base
While I love Dynalist design, their forum and the simplicity...

Roam is evolving quickly and has (what appears to be) little features that make it much more useful to me. More like a living, organic thing.

Eg: I really enjoy [[doing this]] to a concept and turning it into a page in less than a second...

gauchojs··on Ask HN: eBay but Mostly for Developers?
/r/mechmarket looks like a working model of this but only for mechanical keyboards
gauchojs··on The best way to exercise self-control is not to exercise it at all
Nobody ever praises me for not writing another programming language too! I assure you it would be crappy.
gauchojs··on The best way to exercise self-control is not to exercise it at all
Nowadays though, as soon as I finish eating some crap that doesn't digest that well, I'm already regretting it.. since it makes me feel bad. And I still go back to eating it a few days later..
gauchojs··on Never use a dependency that you could replace with an afternoon of programming
Afternoon = around 10 lines of code
gauchojs··on Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf]
The supplements with 10000 IU are very common these days... now you scared me..
gauchojs··on 27-inch iMac gets a major update
Any experience on 24" vs 27" for the same 4k resolution?
gauchojs··on I open sourced my game along with a tutorial on how to make it using Lua
A decade ago, I thought Lua would be where JS is today. But JS won...

A new text editor in Lua, why not: https://github.com/rxi/lite

(Rxi is awesome, see https://rxi.itch.io/)

gauchojs··on Ask HN: How do you take notes when reading a book?
The idea is to write notes in my own words (https://www.amazon.com/How-Take-Smart-Notes-Nonfiction-ebook...) on roamresearch.com, instead of just highlighting the book/article like I do now.

But I have to say I feel like that is only worth doing if you're reseraching a topic that is important to you. Little value to take notes on the articles we read day to day here in HN and Reddit IMO.

gauchojs··on Wireless Is a Trap
I bought a wired Jabra headset for this pandemic times, but nobody actually cares - and we chat without video. Went back to the cheap BT headset - there are too many advantadges of this freedom: can make a coffee, get the baby... while "in the meeting".

But the real most important point: I want to bet on the wireless future because I hate wires. I love seeing my table clean when I had a wireless Mac keyboard. And if Apple can make a keyboard that works reliably over BT for several months, then that should be our target...

gauchojs··on Time to Upgrade Your Monitor
Conclusion after reading tens of comments here: no way to know if I'm young enough for 27" 4k (which is finally affordable in my country) or if I should go with 2560x1440 at 24", which feels outdated in 2020...

And that isn't a great step over my working 22" 10-year old 22" FHD Dell.

How long until we have affordable 'Macbook like' crispness as 22" or 27"?

(Also Linux still sucks with fractional scaling.)

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