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gareth5851on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file

I made a dumb command-line tool that sends a 1-line email to my work email or to my personal email. The tool is in my PATH on 2 computers. I use paper when I'm not at my computer and I have small pen and small paper with me at all times. Occasionally I send texts to my email address. I'm considering giving this tool to my coworkers.

gareth5851on Show HN: Gut – An easy-to-use CLI for Git

mercurial was essentially a more intuitive version of git. too bad it wasn't more widely supported.

gareth5851on Forth: The programming language that writes itself

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gareth5851on Most people don’t finish online job applications

A recruiter once called my co-worker and bragged about getting me a job at another company. This was before I was ready to leave.

gareth5851on The History of FoxPro: Interview with Wayne Ratliff (1986)

I love this. The sequence of technical changes was so human, fragile, unpredictable. I was at the beginning of my career in software at this time. It is a short time ago. Is the trajectory of software exponential? Depends on the humans involved, methinks.