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Thank you for that, it’s encouraging to hear others can get statically-typed-like quality of life following sound practices

Currently working on a 7-8yr old Python monolith with 500k LOC and overall it’s been far less painful than it would be if it hadn’t been for the gradual adoption of typing and strict mypy configuration. The introduction of types has supercharged PyCharm which is already rather powerful at inference so refactoring and exploration has been rather easy. The villain of the story here was not dynamic typing as much as it was the usage of Python dictionaries as a data interchange format where no amount of typing or IDE smartness can untangle that mess. We’ve been slowly replacing dictionaries with models, eg pydantic, which brings a massive quality of life improvement but it’s been arduous and error-prone. All in all Python gives you all the tools needed to create a coherent codebase regardless of size but that requires disciplined engineering and a commitment to incremental improvements.

Personally I’ve been using a similar approach for over a decade where I have 9 desktops on my Mac most of which have fixed windows on them eg 1 for a file explorer, 2 for mail, 3 for browser, 4 and 5 for IDEs, 6 for related tooling, 7 for notes and maybe another browser window, 8 for music, and 9 for chat windows and I switch between them with Ctrl+<number>. On top of all of them desktops I can Ctrl+Space the terminal (Quake style, Warp now, used to be iTerm) and Alt+Space for Raycast (used to be Alfred). This was I rarely if ever need to Cmd+Tab since everything is fixed in place most of the time.

Thanks for the reply! I think any canonical export format would be valuable and would give users some peace of mind :)

Really like it and kudos on launching. Copying GH permalinks to sections of code is something I do about 30 times a day to augment my Slack posts, GH issues, personal notes, Confluence documentation, etc.

I gotta say though, I don't know that I'd trust CodeLink to be around 1-2 years down the track and if it's not then all that work will be far less valuable without the code being accessible through links that will no longer function. I truly hope this project gets traction and becomes a mainstay but until it does I couldn't see myself adopting it.

Admittedly poor performance has been my primary gripe in the 7mos I’ve been using LogSeq on a near-daily basis. I dunno whether the issue stems from the usage of Electron or if text-graphs are really so heavy even an M1 can’t cope but personally I’d gladly pay for a freaking subscription if it meant I could navigate between pages without a very noticeable lag

I suppose if you never revisit your own notes then yes, there’s no value in these systems.

Personally I find myself revisiting old notes rather often for a variety of reasons: - writing annual feedback reports on my peers: by taking brief notes in LogSeq journals tagged with their names I can quickly accumulate feedback on how they did over the year or things they could improve - the above applies to self-assessments which are often required when asking for a raise or promotion in a “ok why? What did you achieve this year?” - solving issues specific to my workplace and workflows: while Google and StackOverflow will likely cover 90% of issues you have an arguably there’s no much value in writing about those solutions I often encounter problems specific to my workplace’s infrastructure or services. Taking notes and writing snippets on those is something I often revisit

Top of my head the above reasons make the process worth it for me

I used Alfred for years and never thought I’d find a viable replacement for it but Raycast has completely replaced it for me in the past year. The ‘Schedule’ integration with the single-key to launch the video conference functionality is top notch. Other dev-targeting integrations like GitHub are also fantastic and unlike with Alfred I don’t have to use a dozen extensions with forgettable shorthand commands so unless the other shoe drops and Raycast ends up introducing some over the top subscription-based pricing model I don’t see me ever going back to Alfred

I had this idea a couple years back for an app that allows eg a parent to write a short story and have some sort of GAN generate the illustrations for it (hopefully with the ability to include images of a child that would be used to include them as a character in the story). Monetisation would come from charging to create a hardcover print of the book.

Some research at the time showed that the publicly available models just weren’t there so I was very excited to hear about DALL-E 2 a couple months back as the idea was suddenly far more feasible but it seems someone else will beat me to it long before I even get access to DALL-E 2

I honestly feel that whoever complains about MyGov never had to perform these bureaucratic operations in a country like Greece. The fact that one can interact with some of the biggest and slowest-moving agencies in the Australian government from the comfort of their home was mind-blowing to me when living in Aus.

Maybe having to queue up for 3h in the cold to be greeted by a grouchy underpaid public servant that would have you queue up again next week (the Greek experience) until you have to call some person you know to do basic things like renewing your passport has lowered the bar too much for me.

Let’s not forget software is hard in the best of environments and archaic governmental offices and processes aren’t exactly conducive to development velocity and quality

It's a very nice selection but is there no RSS feed?

One more reason to use this is to use your screen or TV (via Chromecasting or Airplay) as a green screen. I've used this trick a couple times when I wanted to photograph an item or person and remove the background without having to invest in an actual green-screen and lighting.