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So weird. Last night I ran a bunch of updates and spent some time cleaning up and configuring my laptop. Preparing for the New Year. I tried to upgrade Fish and saw that it hadn't had an update since this time last year. I ended up looking through the release logs and just reading the Fish docs a bit. I never do this. Now, this morning, this is on Hacker News.

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It's not weird, it's a cognitive bias:

Frequency illusion (or Baader–Meinhof effect): The illusion in which a word, a name, or other thing that has recently come to one's attention suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency shortly afterwards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

I think it's more like a productive time of year for hackers to get things done :). The week between xmas and new years is always super productive and creative for me... it's quiet and there is a subconscious urge to wrap things up before year end.

Yeah, I was thinking that too but I look at Hacker News daily and at least once a week a coworker bugs me about using Fish. So it's not like the idea or thought is new to me. In particular this one was weird because I was not only thinking about Fish but checking specifically for an upgrade which I've never cared much about before.

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