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I tried various things, but keep coming back to zsh/fzf. Now I want fuzzy searching everywhere.

300+ probably _known_. Who knows what is the real count?

I know I will never be killed by a crocodile bite. I will die of fright before it reaches me.

Indeed, for me, the IDE debuggers became useless when we started writing multi threaded programs.

Printf is the only way to reliably debug multi threaded programs.

I am hanging on to my 15 year old Vizio for dear life (With a Roku box). We don't watch much TV anyways. Its just Youtube playing.

I dread the day it dies.

No. But I copy it over when I setup a new computer.

I use zsh history and fzf as my second brain. I can recall complicated, long winded commands I executed years ago with a few key strokes.

This makes ‘remembering’ syntax and flags less stress inducing. You only have to figure it out once. Fzf will pull it up for you in a second. I also add #comments at the end of the commands to serve as search tags..

I too use iTerm's profiles to change background colors, fonts etc. to indicate where I am.

Reduces number of fat fingering disasters.

>I would really like it if Magit was a standalone program, rather than an Emacs package, so that I could just switch to a more reasonable editor.

Magit (for me) has so much value _because_ it is part of Emacs , where I edit all my code.

It boggles my mind what could have been if he had lived to a ripe old age.

Herbert was very clever in the sense that his made up words were close to real words. They were easily guessable.

Not sure if this is sarcasm or trolling.

If trolling, it is not very subtle. :-)

Compared to other languages, 'lisp syntax' is very minimal. It is just a prefix notation with parenthesis for enclosing expressions, the first item usually being a function. There are only a handful of special forms to learn, which deviate from this.

The real power of lisp IMHO lies in:

  - Repl driven, dynamic development. This is hard to explain. Its like chocolate. You have to try it. You either love it or hate it.

  - Macros. This is again enabled by the 'lisp syntax. Actually lack of it...'. 

Here is an example I recently ran into when checking out Hy

https://github.com/hylang/hy/discussions/2608#discussioncomm...

This shows how much you can abstract, hide the noise without any runtime penalties..

This is what I believe as well. Also throw in some Functional Programming (isolating pure functions and side-effecting functions) for extra benefits.

How does the slack integration work? Do we need anything on the Slack side?

In the 90's there was 'Google Desktop' which can do such things.

Still miss it.

Somehow my brain doesn't work like that (short aliases).

I usually use long form commands and parameters. I use ZShell history + FZF to get at commands with minimal keystrokes.

Don't really have to remember anything. Some vague snippets will narrow it down really fast.

How about Delphi 6 ?

I have some good memories.

Agreed. That should have been a opt-in from day one!

Replying to my own comment.

The tool was called "Rational Rose" !

But that comes _after_ you have chosen VMs over Containers yes?

If you are using VMs, I think NixOs/Guix is a good choice. Reproducible builds, Immutable OS, Immutable binaries and Dead easy rollback.

It still looks somewhat futuristic. Hopefully gets traction.

Hmm, I always interpreted the title of the movie with the current/conventional meaning of 'quick'.

There are two kinds of people. Those who are quick on the trigger. And those who are dead (because they were not quick enough ..)

It was an entertaining movie! Several big name stars.

I forget its name, but there was an IBM graphical tool , with which you create UML diagrams and it in turn created code (Java IIRRC).

The intermediate representation was in sexp !

I don't know either. Some people just don't like to hear 'emacs' and react negatively.

I think someone should lock down emacs+slime, add some goodies, change keybindings and call it an IDE.

I was able to get it to run in minutes. (copy over the sample glance.yml file in folder and do a 'docker run'.

Haven't tried other methods.

Jeez. Never heard of this one until today. But I immediately recognize this in my behaviour.

I am beginning to think ADHD is like a deck of cards. You are given ~10 random cards as symptoms! There are so many to choose from!

I keep hearing this. What exactly does 'leetcode grind' mean?

I take it you solve puzzles by writing code. How does it help with job interviews really?

I suspect most of the power that you already _love_ flows from the sexp based homoiconic syntax :-)

Learning Emacs is not a bad thing you know..

It has a lot of other goodies like : Org, Magit etc which makes it worth while.

This is like flying commercial. Your brain knows it is statistically safest. But your palms sweat during takeoff and landing no matter.

>But starting on a hill in a conventional automatic with a torque converter also involves either rolling back a bit or pressing the accelerator a bit before releasing the brake.

Felt deeply in San Francisco. I think newer cars rollback less than older cars. Either way, it is unnerving when driving in Lombard street.

You can't pay me enough to drive in SFO in a stick shift.