Skeuomorphism

I still use a Brother laser printers, that’s at least 15 years old. Got it for free a decade ago. It just keeps printing.

Color laser printers have been around for a while. Color quality is worse than an ink jet. So if you’re printing high quality photos, it’s not ideal. It’s good enough though and the other advantages of laser remain.

Install Linux subsystem for Windows and you’re golden.

I exchange ancient vim for fancy neovim and monospaced fonts upgraded to nerd fonts.

It does help weirdly enough. At least I think so.

Are young among people a lot?

There are some open source iOS apps. VLC, Organic Maps, Psychonaut Journal, NetNewsWire, lots of Lemmy clients.

3D printed articulated snakes and dragons.

This is written like an AI prompt.

export AGE=OLDENOUGH

I used a VGA cable just last week to attach a screen to an HP micro server.

Neovim-HEAD or you’re a boomer.

It has nothing to do with intelligence. vi and emacs are just rote memorization and also endless installation of plugins and configuration. They are slow to pick up, but very powerful and also ergonomic once you know what to do.

A modern GUI like CSCode is faster to pickup and immediately very powerful.

A good emacs or vim configuration tailored to your needs can stay with you for decades. It’s stable, reliable, and does everything already. vim has released less than one point update per year for more than 2 years. During that time Sublime and VSCode had dozens, if not hundreds.

For most people the choice of editor doesn’t make a huge difference. They spend far more time reading than writing code.

Nano is the right choice for you.

EMacs is an operating system masquerading as an editor.

For OpenWRT Nano is a good choice. Nobody spends hours in a text editor on that system. You can ssh into it and use any fancy editor with a million plugins installed on your own computer.

Nano you can pick up in ten minutes and master in an afternoon. By that time you’re still reading the intro to vim or eMacs.

nano is the perfect editor for people who only use editors in the terminal, once in a while to edit a config file.

The senior dev having a grand vision of the perfect architecture and overengineers three trendy design patterns into an unmaintainable mess.

I have seen bad VIPER, two different kinds of promises, a reactive framework in one application that originally had a very sensible object oriented approach. All of this crimes by seniors who think the my are very smart.

It turns out you love installing and configuring software, not actually using it.

More than a year doesn’t sound particularly long.