Moved from Ventura/Santa Barbara to Palm Beach FL, due to the alot of shortcomings that California has faced. Witnessing several overdoses outside my condo near the beach was the final straw for me. Too heavy to be around. I still miss the contrast of the beach and mountains, but since after the Pandemic, things just didn't feel the same in California. I hope things can turn around in but it seems like there are issues that stem from the highest offices of government and go beyond the issue of homelessness.
Palm Beach is pretty cool, West Palm Beach/Jupiter area reminds me a lot of Santa Barbara. West Palm Beach to Miami is about the same distance from Ventura to LA. You get a lot of the benefits of Miami without being directly in the madness. A lot of young professionals working in Finance and Tech in Miami are moving to West Palm because of the new BrightLine train that goes from downtown WPB to downtown Miami.
I haven't really got out much and explored due to crazy workload, but want to start attending meet ups here and meet some people my age. A lot of the problems that I had with California, don't really exist, at least to the same degree, out here. It's pretty comfy.
I wanted to not like Chromebooks as someone who either uses a Linux or Mac laptop, but honestly it’s great.
If you’re looking for a cheap notebook to be able to do most dev on go for it. I just developed and deployed a Rails website this evening on my 100$ Chromebook. Everything just worked.
That being said, if you want to spend as much as an Air. You might as well get the Air.
I think Google gives you a choice to get a Chromebook as your main dev laptop, so it is capable, but anything you can do on a Chromebook you will be able to do on a Mac. If I had a choice between a Chromebook or a Windows computer I would choose chrome, unless it was a gaming pc, then I would then choose Linux.
My MBP is a 2009 model. It works fine, but it is totally beyond EOL and no longer safe as an internet connected device.
I played with some M2 MacBook Airs at an Apple store yesterday and the suite of included programs might persuade me to pay the Apple premium. Perhaps I should wait for two weeks and see if the rumored 15" MBA is released at WWDC.
For me, it's Emacs keybindings everywhere. Well really readline commands. I don't use super heavily (mainly just C-a, C-b, C-e, C-p, and C-n)
Every computer I use, I remap control to caps lock. On my work Mac, nothing really changes since these commands work globally.
On my home PC, I run stock Ubuntu and use gnome-tweaks to set emacs commands.
These commands are so ingrained on how I edit text, I feel extremely uncomfortable without them. The deal breaker when using a new desktop environment or Windows, is whether I can get this setup up and running.
Does anyone have any hacks for supporting Readline out of Gnome or MacOS?
I made emacs bindings for my video editor (Da Vinci Resolve)...
Muscle memory makes you do weird things.
The emacs bindings for Mac are too limited. After using emacs everywhere on Windows (with autohotkeys), I found going back to Mac quite limiting. Ended up using some hammerspoon to address done of the faults.
Curious, where do you find them lacking? AFAIK they’re present in all cocoa apps. Are there other apps where you wish they were supported, or is it that you wish for more bindings besides the mentioned C-a, C-e, etc?
For me, the lack of incremental search with C-s/C-r is the big one — would love to jump around inside any text field using C-s pattern C-s C-s … CR (especially ergonomic if you use Caps as Ctrl). That’s a bit different than navigating with Cmd-F, which in most apps is (i) not incremental and (ii) often throws the cursor out of the text field.
It is also worth noting that macOS also uses Cmd+Opt as its Meta key (so Cmd-Opt-F and Cmd-Opt-B are the word-wise motions).
I saw a post recently—a musician was asking for advice about how to set up some super-complicated one-person performance rig. They wanted guitar, bass, keyboard, synths, amps & pedals, mic for singing, etc. This would be for their first live performance, or something like that.
It’s so tempting to do a ton of prep and try to blow people away. I think it’s a flavor of procrastination or perfectionism that gets in the way of your real goals.
Cam Cole is my favorite in the "one man band" niche. He doesn't use that many instruments, and maybe isn't the most talented of the lot technically. But he's one of the few where I liked the songs just for the song itself, without caring it was a one-man-band setup. https://youtu.be/XnHT1nGJt78
Except with this strategy you only ever get a topical experience, and you only ever expose your customers to your topical experience. If it is a hobby to provide enjoyment in life, go for it; if not, don't be scared to put in a little elbow grease and learn something, otherwise you won't make a dent in the SAM/TAM of products that did put in the time.
> Trying to learn everything first will keep you in the consumer mindset. Be a producer.
Is this a quote from "Silicon Valley"? Sounds like something Bachman would say between bong hits.
Once I make my money I dream of opening a 90's esque hacker space like you see in movies like Hackers.
Dark warehouse, neon lighting, The Protegy playing in the background, a place where hackers can bring there machines, talk tech and rage. Coffee in the mornings, bar at night.
That's funny, I've always wanted to open 90s-style Internet Cafe here in the bay area. Maybe not so much Prodigy, but now that my generation is all in their 40s and 50s, I figured it would be fun to combine really really good internet access with retrocomputing resources. I don't know if anyone's done that before. And I doubt it would be profitable. But I'd enjoy it.
Why hasn't this happened yet? Serious question. There are a LOT of Hackers fans here (as evidenced by the Hackers night at DNA Lounge), and a LOT of rich nerds. And the DNA Lounge is close, but it's still not Cyberdelia.
Because Hackers fans are all in their 40s and 50s, and a location like that would live or die based on its ability to attract the young, which it would not.
Jamie Zawinski [1][2] (Netscape/Mozilla/Emacs/XscreenSaver fame) is running something similar called DNA Lounge [3], and has a blog with all sorts of stuff [4], from automating things with perl to running a night club business.
DNA Lounge is a great nightclub, and it does have a Hackers-themed night most years, but I wouldn't call it "something similar". It's a nightclub. A very very cool nightclub - but a nightclub.
(PS. If you click these, and your browser correctly forwards the refer(r)er URL, you will get a "funny" image, as jwz blocks links from HN.)
When I moved to the Bay Area a decade ago, I went to DNA just assuming that it was going to be that Hacker (movie)-esque space _all the time_. Like, I just pictured that in my head many many years ago and never bothered to actually correct it, until I got there.
agreed. he has been and continues to be way over the top about it, continues citing fringe/extreme "sources" and still has "the pandemic is not over" as a headline.
he's one that covid hysteria absolutely broke.
You could do that but it takes a ton of space, and it's a pain in the ass to work in. Image finding the screwdriver you dropped in a pile of junk when the lighting is nightclub style.
We used to sit in the dark sometimes in our old makerspace but it would really know work if everyone used a computer and nothing else. In makerspaces this is rarely the case.
Mental health is a serious issue. The past few years I have been putting family and work before my own care and it caught up to me. 10xing is great, but if you have a mental condition the slightest thing can really set you back if you don't put your own health first. I am taking some time away from computer next few weeks last minute. Management seems fine with it and is offering any help they can. Though I didn't lose my marbles 100% slipping into depression is very real and can be scary. Don't hesitate to go to the ER or any other service if you need it. Take care of yourself.
Remapping Control to Caps is my secret weapon. One feature I can't live without either on MacOS or Gnome is the Emacs keybindings for moving around text. Ctrl-A to move to the beginning of line, Ctrl-E to the end, ctrl-n for next line etc.
I generally use emacs when I'm doing quick edits and don't want to open a GUI, or if I want to take notes. After I got used to the bindings for movement I realized I was able to do them globally. This pretty much allows me to have great keybindings (when Ctrl is remapped) on any editor or application I am using. If you don't already do this I highly recommend trying it for a week over the arrow keys. Just be careful. It may be hard to go back.
I was self medicating with massive amounts of nicotine and coffee, which probably was worse for my health than ADHD meds.
Before I was on meds I was all over the place, could hardly write code even though I knew what needed to be done. Got booted from company I started because of ADHD/Depression. Didn't graduate high school. All the signs were there. I just started seeing a psych from Stanford and he dismissed a lot of my preconceived notions around taking medication.
I was almost homeless before I started and thinking about working construction. Started meds. Got a FAANG-tier programming gig without even studying for the interview. No harm in trying things out if you're having trouble.
I can take an Adderall and take the best nap of my life which is the exact affect it should have.
Medication. I dropped out of high school because I couldn't focus. I didn't really have the outward symptoms of ADHD but my mind was always racing.
I ended up eventually getting diagnosed, even doctors who don't usually prescribe stimulants prescribe them to me. I went from being unemployed and extremely depressed and doing small odd jobs living out of a cheap hotel room, to working at a FAANG like company without even studying for the interview. I am 26 and often wonder what life would have looked like if I got help earlier.
Todo lists help. Exercise helps. Medication did the trick for me.
I thought the constant racing mind (and thoughts constantly dividing like fractal patterns) was _normal_ until diagnosis in late 30s after talking to a friend about it. It boggles my mind how I survived on a daily basis prior to medication.
Medication was a life changing moment and genuinely look forward to what I might accomplish in the future instead of looking back frustrated with the past. It feels like I was operating on just half a brain for decades!
Palm Beach is pretty cool, West Palm Beach/Jupiter area reminds me a lot of Santa Barbara. West Palm Beach to Miami is about the same distance from Ventura to LA. You get a lot of the benefits of Miami without being directly in the madness. A lot of young professionals working in Finance and Tech in Miami are moving to West Palm because of the new BrightLine train that goes from downtown WPB to downtown Miami.
I haven't really got out much and explored due to crazy workload, but want to start attending meet ups here and meet some people my age. A lot of the problems that I had with California, don't really exist, at least to the same degree, out here. It's pretty comfy.