This is almost identical to my experience. And during that brief sliver of time that I do get to myself, I simply don't have the mental energy to engage with others. Instead, I usually decompress by working out or reading or something else solitary, because for me socialising requires effort.
I like this philosophy. At home, my dev machine is a Raspberry Pi with Raspberry Pi OS Lite installed to keep things minimal and clean. I added OpenBox, Helix, and Konsole, then I'm pretty much sorted (besides tooling for OCaml & Lua). It's a refreshing change to my work laptop.
I don't think this is necessarily unique to programmers. I often heard the same sentiment expressed by (non-CS) postdocs, who longed to leave academia to become artisanal bakers or small-scale mushroom farmers.
Small Gods is my favourite so far. I think it's a great example of how Sir Terry could be silly and funny whilst making very interesting points about (usually) serious matters.
> It still blows my mind how dogmatic some people can be about things like this. I don't understand why anyone takes these things as gospel.
IMO, this is one of the key differences between the two books. CC has a vibe of hard and fast opinion-based rules that you must obey, whereas APoSD feels more like empirically-derived principles or guidelines.
Personally, I prefer it when there is a solid default tool chain for a language rather than having to choose from one of several. That way, I know pretty much what to expect when I open any project in that language. I feel like this is one of the few places where Clojure dropped the ball and that deps.edn should've been there from the get-go.
On the Pacific Crest Trail, there is a lake called Gillette Lake presumably because it's the best a man can get. I, for one, quite liked it, as it's bright turquoise due to rock flour.
I'm surprised that Lua wasn't included in the discussion. I'm not saying they necessarily should have chosen to use it, but it's a notable omission given its popularity as a config language.
A metric I think is useful is responsiveness to issues. If there haven't been any recent commits and if I open the issue tracker and the maintainer hasn't even acknowledged issues that have been opened in the last 6 months, then I assume the project is no longer maintained.
They did an episode of Signals and Threads (Jane Street's technical podcast) about their build systems back in 2020¥. Highly recommended, as are the other episodes, especially The Future of Programming with Richard Eisenberg° and What is an Operating System? with Anil Madhavapeddy§.
I've tried my damnedest, but simply cannot get into Rushdie. Given that Midnight's Children won the "Booker of Bookers", I thought that would be a great place to start. When I finished the book I turned it over in my hands wondering if I missed something or if I'm simply not smart enough to get Rushdie. I read a couple more of his books and the result was much the same, unfortunately.
I was an Emacs user for years, then discovered Helix. I tried it on a whim and it turns out that I really enjoyed a modal editor that requires minimal config. I'm not sure if it's due to my an age, but I no longer want to constantly tweak my setup and just want a solid out of the box experience.
Very little organic carbon actually reaches the seafloor, though, because it is remineralised while sinking through the water column. Then, most of the organic matter that actually does reach the seafloor is similarly remineralised rather than buried.
But say we did manage to get massive amounts of organic matter into the deep ocean, we could feasibly end up creating a so-called "dead zone" that is depleted in oxygen like we see elsewhere in the ocean, which would be detrimental to deep sea life.
The only person I've worked with over the past 20+ years who used Perl was a bioinformatics guru. When he taught students in the lab, however, he'd switch to Python.
We bought Netrunner because it looked amazing, but we laboured through as many of the rules as we could stomach before putting it away without playing. That was 10 years ago. We've haven't had the energy to try again yet.
I came to say the same about JotL. They got so much right in that game with the way they introduce the rules and the spiral-bound book game board being the most prominent.