Gregory's Server@neauoire Do you have a sort of mental threshold of "if I have to do this task X times it's worth automating"? It's obviously dependent on how hard it is to automate, but it'd be interesting to hear where your cutoff is.
(I start hankering for automating at 3x, my coworker would go two years, at least, refusing to automate something complex he has to do weekly.)
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 @smellsofbikes Today was a bit special, I got burned by the lack of the feature I needed to temporarily see the definition, and lost a bunch of work. Left has no undo, but it can quickly rename buffers, so I tend to just "stash" copies of the things I'm working on in temporary files. The problem that happened was that when I mouse2 on a word, it copies the selection into a buffer, and it overwrote what I had stashed.. I lost more time with my misclick than I spent implementing scroll-to nav. @neauoire This sounds like you've made a chainsaw, and I admire that, especially in that you're actually USING it. @smellsofbikes the whole ecosystem is a chainsaw, it's a self-modifying programming language. It's a chainsaw with little guns for blades. But I love it, I wouldn't want to build programs any other way.  @maxime_andre @smellsofbikes I don't feel tired, maybe I just forgot how it was to program using real languages. @neauoire The latter is an important point: when we know the trick of making it work, we put up with its weirdness. ("That's CHARM.") @neauoire Oh, no, it's like praising an old car's patina. Charm as euphemism for trouble. |
@smellsofbikes I think I might be more like your co-worker, I tend to delay it until it's absolutely ridicule.
For example, I've been coding without undo for 2 years now, and each month, I'm saying to myself that I'll add it next week, it has been two years of this now. I tend to work around the shortcomings of my own projects, for which I have near infinite patience, but I would never take this sort of abuse from something I hadn't made haha