From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2024-04-11, D  wrote:   
      
   >> All that got me thinking how difficult having been a   
   >> developer makes living with those who haven't. I'm talking   
   >> mainly in the sense of (for me, anyway), perpetually   
   >> looking to improve, simplify, and possibly automate things.   
   >   
   > It's a very powerful skill, use it wisely. ;)   
      
   Solve a single simple remains a joy. No interest in writing   
   an application.  But noting how a certain textural   
   periodicity invites a Lua massage that regularly saves me   
   repeated vim keystrokes? Yum!   
      
   I think it was about a year ago I felt it necessary to be   
   pushing thoughts to Gemini, Gopher, and Web spaces. What   
   a joy to be able to source it all from Gemini markdown,   
   automating the sftp'ing for extra credit, as it were!   
      
   > I never soak, I do the dishes immediately after dinner. But   
   > I do have a quite compact movement pattern, and my   
   > competition with myself is to do the dishes faster than   
   > my wife can dry them. ;)   
      
   Well, I rarely soak either, so I think I mis-spoke. It's   
   more like "not let dry out". I tend to get busy with such   
   pretty near immediately after a meal too. I just don't   
   like having things having over my head. I like being   
   ready.   
      
   I do all the dishes because my wife does all the cooking,   
   and we've just happened to not have a dishwasher for   
   several years now. But we'll have one at a new place in   
   roughly May, or whenever in-progress upgrades are complete.   
      
   > You must train her. I'd suggest some classic Skinnerian   
   > training. If she does it wrong, you hit her in the bottom,   
   > if she does it right, you provide her with a carrot. ;)   
      
   You'd be wasting your time writing about Christianity   
   given your obvious practical wisdom prowess! ;-)   
      
   > I tried to train my wife on using her computer in a   
   > more efficient way and I was the one who was hit in the   
   > bottom. For me, it is very painful to watch mouse-people   
   > use their point and click applications in the office.   
   > It is physically painful for me! It is just so slow, and   
   > when I do something, they marvel at the speed. When I try   
   > to teach them, they do not listen (or in the case of my   
   > wife, hit me).   
      
   The mouse and trackpad are abominations!   
      
   Ever try the "Vimium" extension in a browser? (FWIW,   
   the Lagrange browser I mentioned in a previous post has   
   something akin to it built in)   
      
   > You should start a management consulting company! You   
   > would earn a fortune doing what you do anyway! =)   
      
   I suspect I could excel in some kind of consulting. But I'm   
   retired, you see. But I'd love throwing nuggets others'   
   ways for dinner/drink money. But I loathe the idea of   
   promoting/selling myself.   
      
   We get that kind of money sitting a grandchild a couple   
   times a week (six hour stints) during the school year,   
   and then performing out as a duo. I'm getting tired of   
   lugging equipment around, but probably have a couple years   
   of that left in me. When that wraps, we'll likely go back   
   to some recording and/or podcasting.   
      
   > True. That is one of the joys of IT. Seeing that script you   
   > made save you hours and hours and hours of work. Vim for   
   > instance, I don't know how many hours of text processing   
   > it has saved me. Amazing tool!   
      
   Can't imagine life without it. Typing in it this very   
   moment. 'Tis the ASCII air current - yea, jetstream -   
   beneath my wings, as it were.   
      
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