Same, this was around 2004-2006ish when I maintained a Gentoo build for my Pentium 4 box. There was this somewhat draw to me of compiling my own binaries highly optimized to my processor and that Portage mostly works. But my gosh, gcc build times are killing the fun. When Ubuntu arrived and saw my peers being productive, I switched.

Interesting, as I kinda share also that there are lines to be drawn between software architecture, design and implementation (all three).

Much like in the real world building of real-estate for example, I see there are different roles between the architect vs the engineers vs. the foremen.

What do you draw the line? What concerns/areas are to be covered in each of these [arch vs design vs implem]?

Also loved that show. It aired through my teen years (90s) in Discovery Channel. There are other similar shows like this such as Next Step.

Getting there to "Skynet", if this takes off. Amazon already is listening via Echo and Ring and now this.

This may also apply to non-CS things you've learned in the past, such us biology, chemistry, physics, math, etc, to a varying degree.

Just checked my EverNote stats for me to comment here. I have 1500+ Notes spanning more than 10 years (since 2011). I have 18 notebooks as major categorization of work-company-A vs ideas vs bookmarks vs project-x .. etc. I use this daily, for tasks, snippets, basic todos both work and personal, and attach rich media (screenshots, code, links) in most notes.

Syncing is also what I'm after and all my devices have EN: macs at home and work, my spare windows laptop, tablets and smarphones (Android). Principle: if its for my personal consumption, I usually put it in my EN, but work stuff are in GDocs/GDrive for shareability. I also limit putting in my notes any sensitive info and credentials, at the very least, for sanity and security purposes, as I have a KeyPassXC for that. I also don't use Evernote specific groupsharing/tasks/other features; it's just the sync-all-my-notes-across-my devices. Syncing works best in their desktop apps for the most part, but buggy in Android (dups, conflicts). Paying $2+USD/mo for this so im not complaining. But it could be better.

Very similar to what I have done. It's very powerful to have a lot of notes in one system like Evernote. Mine goes back to 2006. Likewise, I don't use it for document collaboration or any of the sharing functions – just personal notes synced.

Nowadays I create one note per day. I feel like I take a lot of notes – 500-4,000 words a day.

What balloons the size is I often find myself more in a transcription mode when I'm having critical conversations or interviewing people. Remote work makes this easier.

I've also developed a small number of short-hand annotations. eg. "(" for my inline thoughts, "[" for questions or topics I want to get to in a meeting.

Any link to deployable dockerized versions?

Theres a version here: https://hub.docker.com/r/supabase/supabase-dev

But we will be releasing a much more robust version with docs soon!

Within the past two to three decades at least, I saw much of the tech world grow (for better or worse), benefiting from NIH inclined innovation + OSS bazaar model; some random evolution examples coming to mind include minix vs linux, java vs golang, memcached vs redis, apache vs nginx vs traefik, lxc and docker ... not that the development of the latter was motivated by lacking capabilities of the former, boring tech more or less has been always available but it takes guts and perseverance to embark on a green implementation. We probably have to admit that most of us do have NIH, to some degree.

I follow the Functional Core, Imperative Shell pattern.

I do TDD on Core, especially on mission critical code.

The Shell however have almost zero automated tests.

Thanks for that term, it sounds related to the style I prefer. Do you have any recommended references?

Try to watch Gary Bernhardt's "Boundaries" screencast (2012), if you haven't yet.

There are also some collection of links in github such as https://gist.github.com/kbilsted/abdc017858cad68c3e7926b0364....

The pattern articulated by Gary also best resonated my thoughts and experience in building software.

To add, HK's land area is orders of magnitude smaller than the U.S. Maybe Americans can simply afford to build on far bigger land given their income.

Right. I would guess the combination of available space and culture dominates income-related concerns. The places with big houses tend to be former British colonies that cover vast territories and feature an individualistic culture: Australia, Canada, and the US.