droctothorpe

Love the manifesto. It perfectly describes the approach I adhere to and have encouraged many other engineers to adopt. Better to ask for forgiveness than permission. Open source means distributed maintenance. Many hands make light work.

There has been a proliferation of agentic development environment extensions from competing vendors. As a result, the market has profoundly inconsistent nomenclature and standards that make the domain space seem unnecessarily complex. This page is an attempt to simplify and disambiguate the available offerings.

My galaxy-brained coworker (https://github.com/pjdoland) built this magnificent project. Figured the hive mind would appreciate it. Enjoy!

Gorgeous! How do the worklouder pures compare to the stock keycaps?

I tech fast for 25 hours a week. No computer, no cell phone, no television, etc. It's amazing how much this sustains my motivation and enthusiasm. You can "switch" right now, at least 1/7th of the time. Not exactly what you're asking for but immediately actionable.

I send my parents $500 a month with Venmo. Really ought to send more.

What an emotional roller coaster!

Thanks for sharing these examples. I feel like stories like this, collectively, could constitute an interesting book.

The fact that Stigler's Law adheres to Stigler's Law is hilarious. Thanks for sharing!

I call it RDD: Rage Driven Development.

Exactly!

This is an awesome feature request. Thank you!

Not to mention, depending on the size of the company / org, all hands meetings can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Hello HN,

I hope you enjoy this side project I've been working on. The target audience is disgruntled engineers who get pulled into lengthy, meandering, oftentimes unnecessary meetings, and wish they had more distraction-free IC time.

Shout out to https://github.com/datavized/twotone for making this possible.

This. This is why I read hacker news. As someone who interacts with your code on a daily basis and whose livelihood was catapulted due to said familiarity, thank you!

I really appreciate the nuanced analysis! Thanks for the input!

This is a great idea. FFMPEG is as arcane as it is amazing. This should have been written in a compiled language, however.

> Another example could be switching to a career at 30 years old when you do not have the required social skills. You are better off focussing your efforts on a career that you will thrive in as an introvert while at the same time giving some room to improve on your social skills without making it your focus. Trying to put all your chips on a career based on a skill that you have not mastered or you struggle with is not the smartest bet to make.

This could have been written about me. I'm a software engineer who switched careers (from filmmaking) at 30. One of the best decisions I ever made. I love my job. I'm good at it. I have more (hard-earned) people skills than your average developer, but I'm fundamentally an introvert, and love my distraction-free IC time.