@michal Laptop, specifically right before everything went into ✨the cloud✨.

@michal I've always relied on memory. My memory. It's not 100%, but it's good enough. I am questioning whether that's still a winning strategy as my brain ages.

@michal The only thing that actually works for me is a backlog and regular "sprint planning" (whether formal or private for myself). Before I learned how to do that, a lot of my tasks just fell to the floor, never to be picked up again. On the other hand, that says a bit about how little of the stuff we get asked to do is actually important.

@michal Pen & paper for short term things and stuff I'm still thinking about, Markdown files on the computer for anything I know I'll need to reference in the future. Anything else is just useless.

Electronic calendar systems are the worst because any dork can and will pull you into their appointments, completely fracturing your day.

@michal this should have been multiple choice! :))

@michal a 14" Windows XP laptop that you pull out of a drawer when you want to play some Age of Empires

@michal Here's another option: Build a VM server in the basement and run cables/wifi to each location with a keyboard, monitor, and mouse. (Might cost a bit of $$$...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvzeZCZluJ0

@nixCraft 🤣

@nixCraft

This cuts deep.

@nixCraft there's still occasional hotspots and flare-ups of the Vim-Emacs war. Don't delude yourself into thinking it's over. #TeamEmacs

@nixCraft

Pfft. AKA the Second vi vs emacs wars. The first was fought more bitterly, across countless battlefields. Each battlefields a simulacrum of each other, with the domains passing into legend or obscurity. DG/UX, UTS, HP/UX, SunOS, AIX and many more.

@nixCraft

Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better development environment.

Alt...

Dilbert panel in which Wally notes, "You're one of those condescending Unix computer users!" to which a gray-beard replies, "Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better development environment." (the original panel had "Get yourself a better computer.")

@82mhz AWESOME post. Thinkpad and a Walkman, hell yes! 🔥🔥 Recently grabbed a Sharp CD/cassette player I had as a kid, maybe you saw the blog post. Such a blast.

@82mhz great, GREAT post!

@82mhz I had one from Siemens that I loved. It had a lever to change playback direction and it had auto-reverse which automatically actionated to lever on the end of the tape

Now you need some orange headphones and a nice business card.

(they are now making good orange ones - https://headfonics.com/fiio-snowsky-wind-review/ or https://koss.com/products/kph40-retro if you like bass)

@82mhz Your writing made me smile and laugh out loud at one point. Exactly the pick me up I needed today. Thanks for that.
And I'm happy you got the Walkman and the tape working again. Engineeeeeeeer!!! 💪 (or rather 🦾)

@82mhz Cool! but also, "I 3D-printed a cog that fit into the tape, attached that to my battery powered drill and wound the tape back and forth a couple of times this way." ... CHEATER! :)

@82mhz@bsd.cafe

@82mhz Nice. This is cute. I tried a couple of years ago an old mp3 player but the crumbling plastic put me off.

@82mhz

I can just see those brain circuits firing as you work through this process. I'm in awe. And I enjoy the sense of joy you must feel from the accomplishment.

@82mhz Wow, great post and a joy to read! Cool idea tuning the playback speed with a guitar tuner 🤩👍🏼

@82mhz Your write-up of finding and solving the problems is a pleasure to read.

I love that era of Sony design, with the accents made to look as if they were frozen mid-flow.

@82mhz ONE OF US

@82mhz Amazing post, thanks for sharing! You made my day with the glued paragraph :))

@michal I know that Paul’s songs were worse than John or George’s, but is having a former Beatle in charge really that bad?

@grumpygamer Like I’m sure most creative people will, I really appreciate that you’re doing this. 🤘🤘

@grumpygamer

Fighting the good fight!

@grumpygamer love it! I plan to add a "No AI Used or Allowed" policy to all my FOSS/public-visible code.

@grumpygamer It's data synthesis, and it's not a creative process. It's like you're a painter saying that computers ruin the creative process. Trust us, we all know a Renaissance artist can outdo almost everyone else on both media.

@grumpygamer TBH, I think that's a good thing.

- Because you want creative output, not stochastic plagiarism!

@grumpygamer Although I share this attitude, I am sure this will onl ypostpone the inevitable a little bit.

@grumpygamer
Word calculators don't poison the creative process, amateurcess, or apprenticecess.

They asphyxiate them.

@grumpygamer I am of the opinion that AI *needs* the creative process. And even more self-conscious critical thinking.

@grumpygamer At the very least, programming is a kind of black art.

@grumpygamer You're a champ, Ron ✊