This is such a valuable recommendation. I've been doing the same since 20+ years back. On and off I've been bad at it, but I always end up coming back and continuing.
I think of it as more of a daily diary though, I mix random notes of things I've done, thought of doing, or interesting links and/or command-lines I've found useful so I don't have to reinvent them as often in the future.
It has proven to be immensely useful for myself. Can highly recommend!
My way is mainly org-mode files through Emacs over the years. Now having switched primarily to VScode I use a simplified org-mode version to get similar feeling, and it works pretty well. Everything is mostly text anyways!
- On Windows, if a server sent control sequences at high speed to reconfigure the terminal window title repeatedly, PuTTY would pass on all those title changes to Windows itself at high enough speed to make the window system unresponsive, resulting in a denial of service to other local applications.
Noteworthy UI fix:
- The terminal was unable to display Unicode characters in the range U+F000 to U+F1FF (part of the private-use area).
This latest one is amazing for the ones of us who like to pimp our terminal using nerdfonts, fancy icons in the terminal and such. This now finally works well!
A lot of my meaningful contacts and relationship building has been because I didn't put down the phone. Being an introvert in a crazy extrovert world is insanely draining.
Social media, digital communication and so forth has surely saved a huge part of my life. It has opened doors, allowed me to connect and establish friendships with people all over the world. It allows me to keep in touch with remote friends and close ones alike. All in all summing up to the feeling that I am less lonely.
Excluding Corona time this also means that I have people to actually meet when I want to go out. So it is not a replacement for "real life" meeting with people. It is an augmentation.
Each to their own; but I personally am somewhat tired of the constant norm of bashing on "digital" and phone and so forth.
I totally love it. Being an introvert and a digital-first person this is amazing for me. Even I miss some social interactions now and then, but productivity wise, mental health, feeling useful and happy this is insanely good for someone like me.
I dread the day the world returns to normal from THIS perspective, but of course longing for the sake of business owners, everyone who feels bad in this environment and so on.
At least for a moment my way and preferences has become the norm, and perhaps people who prefer the other normal will somewhat appreciate the constant struggles people like me have in the normal world instead. How they feel now in isolation, I feel every day of my life in regular society that they long for and that is the norm.
Not exactly the same thing, but I have 3 physical monitors in Windows and when I need to go into focus-mode I sometimes use an application called MultiScreenBlank[1] to dim or blank out the screens I do not want to bother me.
I built a docker container based on phusion/baseimage so anyone can try this as long as they have docker installed. Just run this to have it decrypt to "Testing":
$ docker run ahnberg/ciphey ciphey -t "01010100 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111"
Thanks! I've released an alpha version three days ago.
I'm not very comfortable using a comment for promotional purpose so if you would like to try it out, drop me an email at jje.levy@gmail.com, I will send you the link.
I will try to make a Show HN post in the following weeks.
You can explain it either honestly with medical issue during an interview, phrase it as a sabbatical where you focused on something else or yourself for a year to figure out what you wanted, and did projects on the side instead of working.
Or a "fun" way is to claim you worked for any government agency who would never verify or deny that you ever worked for them. :P
I think of it as more of a daily diary though, I mix random notes of things I've done, thought of doing, or interesting links and/or command-lines I've found useful so I don't have to reinvent them as often in the future.
It has proven to be immensely useful for myself. Can highly recommend!
My way is mainly org-mode files through Emacs over the years. Now having switched primarily to VScode I use a simplified org-mode version to get similar feeling, and it works pretty well. Everything is mostly text anyways!