That was a fun read. BTW, I bought both Kondo’s original tidying book and her tidying for work book.

I have been looking at ways to simplify my software stacks while transitioning to “retirement.” For me this is often just pushing complexity to web infrastructure managed by corporations (but always with an easy migration path). Examples:

Lisp dev: I have been using Common Lisp for 40 years. I am eyeing more minimal languages like a Scheme implementation or Racket. I have flirted with the idea of Emacs Lisp but this would be a huge learning curve for me.

Deep learning, and general Python: I am a big fan of Google Colab. I haven’t powered up my at home GPU rig in months. For local Python dev, for little projects I have mostly moved away from PyCharm and VSCode, moving back to Emacs + python-mode.

When I must set up a web app, I am almost all in on GCP, sometimes Hetzner, never AWS for my own stuff.

I will probably drop programming languages that I don’t often use now like JavaScript, Haskell, Clojure, Smalltalk, and Java.