“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
–Benjamin Franklin
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
–Benjamin Franklin
The Ergonomics Bug My Emacs journey began with one simple desire; to make ergonomics a first-class citizen in my work day. It didn’t start with Emacs, though, it started with some changes to my workspace like a better chair, a split keyboard, and a better mouse. As the ergonomics rabbit hole got deeper, I continued finding new ways to tweak my setup for better health and more productivity. I can’t remember where it was, but I came across a discussion where someone was praising the value of “Spacemacs”, a text editor which is based on Emacs and prioritizes ergonomics and ease of use....
Sometimes I wish I could go back and see where all of my old code has gone. Surely some of it has been discarded. Some is likely in Github limbo, sitting in a repository with an ancient last commit timestamp. After a decade in the industry, though, there must be teams out there who have the displeasure of working with code I wrote years ago. I’ve ideated with a mental model for thinking about the short, medium, and long-term scales of aging software; 3 days, 3 months, and 3 years....