Yup. Watching so many of my peers struggle with some basic tasks like grabbing a url and inserting it into a chat buffer. I mean, come on. How many times a day you do this? And you just settled with always:
- going back to the browser
- clicking on address bar
- attempting to select the link with the mouse
- switching back to wherever you want the link
- inserting it
- realizing that you missed a character - mouse is imprecise for text selection
- repeating the process
- Oh shoot. It's a markdown, I need now to grab the description of the page too. And... back to the dance again.
Shit like this, for me is just pressing a key. And it nicely formats it (for whatever markup you want), grabbing the correct description, etc. I solved the problem once, and it just works and I never have to ever spare a split second neural signalling for it - there's no attention tax.
I'm forever indebted to my younger self for convincing and forcing myself to learn Lisp and spend some time understanding Emacs. Among all sorts of skills that I picked up during my tenure - CLIs, Unix, Linux internals, networking, git fundamentals, vim, various programming languages, front-end, devops, cybersec, etc. etc. - Lisp remains enormously practical, the best skill that I'm so glad I acquired.
- going back to the browser
- clicking on address bar
- attempting to select the link with the mouse
- switching back to wherever you want the link
- inserting it
- realizing that you missed a character - mouse is imprecise for text selection
- repeating the process
- Oh shoot. It's a markdown, I need now to grab the description of the page too. And... back to the dance again.
Shit like this, for me is just pressing a key. And it nicely formats it (for whatever markup you want), grabbing the correct description, etc. I solved the problem once, and it just works and I never have to ever spare a split second neural signalling for it - there's no attention tax.
I'm forever indebted to my younger self for convincing and forcing myself to learn Lisp and spend some time understanding Emacs. Among all sorts of skills that I picked up during my tenure - CLIs, Unix, Linux internals, networking, git fundamentals, vim, various programming languages, front-end, devops, cybersec, etc. etc. - Lisp remains enormously practical, the best skill that I'm so glad I acquired.