From time to time I am peeking over from VS Code to PyCharm and recently I have been surprised how much it seems to fall behind. No (official) ruff integration, you have to use 'External Tools', which is not part of the backup&sync feature. Seriously?
To me, the most difficult part about quitting youtube, twitter or reddit is that these websites are incredibly rewarding and an incredible waste of time at the same time. Reddit has great discussions on careers, hobbies, whatever you do not stumble upon elsewhere, but the rewarding content unfortunately always comes in packs with some mindless scrolling and mediocre memes – I've never managed to have one without the other. Quitting them means to forfeit a huge, valuable chunk of input and I am yet not sure what's better.
Honestly Reddit has never been that great for me. In my experience a lot of content even in niche hobby subreddits is regurgitated opinions presented as authorative facts or baseless speculation disguised as professional insight.
In the few hobby subreddits that I frequented, non-mainstream opinions or new ideas were often drowned out by the hivemind and people with less experience or knowledge. In short, a real discussion rarely came up or was even possible.
And in the case of questions I realized that so many people have no clue but still feel compelled to answer.
I'll omit my rant on career advice subreddits here.
For my hobbies specifically, I've reverted back to forums. You can have a relaxed discussion over the span of weeks, and interesting threads might remain active for months. You can get to know the users by their signatures, and the average age of users is also higher. Some of the users might even be professionals instead of just hobbyists, where I feel that was rare on Reddit.
The problem with multiple monitors for me is that you have to turn your head very wide to look onto the adjacent screens' center, which is definitely not ergonomic and healthy.
That being said, it is still my current setup as this wide turn holds me off from looking at the second screen, where slack and other distracting stuff is placed.
For me, less distracting and confusing visual clutter on the screen. Also, the pane showing the file hierarchy is redundant with the file explorer that the OS already provides. But either way, not having to use an IDE is a blessing. Especially on a 14" touch screen laptop.
Note that I'm probably a freak, lots of my friends love their IDE's, but having having something that works for my particular brain and my eyeballs is a blessing.
Mind sharing what the diagnosis entailed for you to have such an impact? Medication, strategies, cognitive therapy? Relieve in the sense of "everything makes (more) sense now"?
Yeah all of the above pretty much. A huge sense of relief, like having an answer to a question that had been bugging me for ever.
We’re still working through medication, figuring out the best dosage etc, but it has been a big improvement to my focus. My screen time on my phone dropped 1.5hours / day as soon as I went on meds. So that’s a measurable improvement.
Strategies have been a little hit and miss so far, my psychiatrist recommended recording all of my conversations so that I can go back and relisten to them later, but it’s not something I’m comfortable doing. One thing that has been a huge help was doing Dave Crewnshaws time management for adhd course, just the simple things like maintaining a clean desk, keeping everything in its place has been super helpful.
Imho the problem with LaTeX CVs is that they all look bleak and the same because it is (on purpose) tedious to create anything except the standard format.
I needed a sample LaTeX vita file in the early 1980's. I had logins on various math department servers, so I searched from root on each machine, and decided to base my vita on David Mumford's vita source file.
That says something about privacy in the era. I felt that what I did was entirely in the spirit of the default file permissions. Various people were nevertheless horrified when they learned that this search was even possible.
