so what do you old farts that don't go into management actually _do_ to keep up with the arbitrary churn and escalating complexity in the software and hardware world? pandemic probably has something to do with it but at 46 i feel i'm hitting a wall
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my "retirement plan" has been to focus on better tools. focus more Haskell and Rust for instance but i keep getting drawn into embedded C land. i feel incremental changes are not going to cut it and i need to make some choices. cut some things out. not clear how.
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sorry for calling you an old fart
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i guess the problem is just scope. considering to move more deliberately to testing. that's where i've found most "tool freedom", and it's a domain that is seriously underestimated
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burned on technical debt... better now three months later. fixed tooling, removed workarounds, shaved some yaks. joy returned.
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Yeah I feel a little weird answering a call for old farts (CFOF) but I will say I've found it a little harder to remember paragraphs of random CLI incantations than I used to and I've taken to using org-babel notes + code to keep things straight.
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Maybe it's just time for an Emacs sabbatical to build some crutches. I use org for some things but never got to the bottom of it, if that's even possible.
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ha i wish :-)
i have no place to hide where i am. no youngsters to indoctrinate.
i just write impenetrable C, Forth interpreters, and Lua code with lots of hof indirection to scare people off my lawn so i can shave thos yaks
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