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I was a nerd. The kind who'd remember Ramanujan # and throw it around randomly in conversations to seem smart. At some point in college I realized this nerdiness was not rewarded. And there's nothing I like more than being liked. I have this compulsive need to be liked. So I stopped acquiring knowledge. You realize how most of the word is shallow. If you are in a group of non-nerds you are more…
I saw an ex-colleague's LinkedIN profile. We used to work together. I always thought I was smarter than them. They would be schmoozing with the CEO over a game of table tennis while I'd be grinding away at code, too awkward to do small talk with CEO. Surely it wasn't going to matter since my skills would show for themselves -- 10 years later -- I saw their LinkedIN profile. They are C suite at a…
There's this meme "It's easy to hate the rich but do you have courage to hate the poor?" But I have realized that people sorta kinda hate poor people. Or people who have their life fucked in some way. Like divorced people, or sick people, or people who took bad decisions in some ways like losing all money on gambling It's not "hate" per se, but some emotion that's not compassion or pity. Almost…
I have been facing terrible cognitive decline lately. The stress has broken down my systems and made me crave cheap dopamine as a way to protect myself from getting hurt. Some things I plan to do: Sports: I have struggled with meditation but in some way this forces me to meditate. I have a clear mind when I am playing and not worried about stresses of life. Meditate: Actually sit and breathing…
If you have ever read a typescript error you may have thought "well this was a mistake". Typescript is the most maintstream language with an advanced type system however the types tend to get unwieldy real fast this tweet did rounds a while back ceiling is being raised. cursor's copilot helped us write "superhuman code" for a critical feature. We can read this code, but VERY few engineers out…
Recently at work I spend a lot of time working on something that had frequently changing requirements. At one point I was found myself wishing for an "executable whimsical", where PMs (or ops, or some non technical stakeholder) can just move around blocks to change program behavior. Which led me to think, well kids can code with something like scratch, why can't we have something like that for PMs…
I have been exploring the world of terminal based text editors recently and came across Helix. First impressions seems more intuitive than Vim. But ecosystem is pretty nascent. While most major editors/IDEs will have Vim keybindings you'll be out of luck finding Helix keybindings for now. That said, it is also a baby as compared to Vim (released in 1991), so give it time. Setting up Javascript in…