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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I think there’s two perspectives here: one as a potential contributor, and one as a “simple” user.

    as a potential contributor, sure, the language of the tool matters. something breaks and you go investigate the source files to figure out why and maybe open a PR. In that case, a different tech stack is no good - you’ll have to learn a totally new language!

    however as just an end user, I see no problem with something being written in whatever language. regardless of the implementation, all I do is open GitHub and file a new issue (if that). I don’t care about whatever stack is being used, I never even look at it.

    so it depends on your approach to your own usage pattern. aside from those options, I would expect any sufficiently well-designed tool to not require me to understand language of implementation to know why some particular invocation didn’t work. and of course in the ideal world, if you use it and it works perfectly, then the question is immaterial anyway.















  • another way to start is to only do small configurations at first. as you code maybe you realize you want a tool that shows git diffs, install a plug-in that does that. over time, you gradually build your config. maybe you want to start using leader for custom key maps. a couple days later maybe you think you want a file picker so you add telescope. this 100% will take longer, but you’ll intimately understand why every line in your config is there.





  • Having read some of the specific stories he’s exaggerated; I feel I can empathize with some of them. For example he talks about how he felt when he was receiving death threats, and constructed a story that would be indicative of that feeling. however, in other stories he exaggerated events involving real people (his prospective date to the prom, for one) that his fans have identified and subsequently harassed.

    celebrities have to be cognizant of this brigading effect they tend to have, even if they don’t condone it, and it seems like Hasan has no remorse for the ways his exaggerations have hurt the real people involved in his stories.