Second this. Put off trying it for years because "why not just use a GUI" if I'm going to leave the console anyway. Turns out lazygit is kind of a happy middle ground and using it actually feels better than it looks.
I've been liking Explainable Boosting Machines lately (kind of a cross between a GAM and a tree). They also have decision trees. Haven't tested them in production yet but they're pretty to look at.
Seconding Obsidian for notes. Really happy with the editor, it's got nice formatting and all notes synced on desktop/laptop/phone. I just use their paid syncing though. I also ignore all the graph and mindmapping stuff.
With higher interest rates, I stopped paying the full balance and instead try squeezing a little extra interest out of the money (I buy USFR, which is giving around 5.3% right now). I still pay the statement balance of course.
Everything search is incredible, for me it serves nearly instant searches for 15TB+ of data without any trouble. I think the secret sauce is a background service which continuously updates the file index.
I also like WinDirStat a lot for Windows file management, which is not really for search but gives a great view of disk usage.
Nothing has impacted my writing more than that book. There are several versions now, the one I have is titled "Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace".
I chose it over White's book because of this passage from Clear and Simple as the Truth:
> The best-known teachers of practical style are Strunk and White, in their ubiquitous Elements of Style. The best teachers of practical style are Joseph Williams and Gregory Colomb, in Williams’s Style: Toward Clarity and Grace and a series of academic articles and technical reports.Williams and Colomb present an incomparably deeper and more orderly treatment of practical style. The style they present is consistent and mature; it makes decisions about all the major questions that define a style, and is fully developed.
I almost can’t overstate how much it’s changed how I read and write. Before that book, some writing just felt “clear” and other writing didn’t, but I couldn’t explain why. Now it’s much easier to see how that sense of clarity is created. Even though I don't write for a living and mainly do technical write ups, it was easily worth the time investment.
This video is also good. It has a ton of interesting points, but the part about creating instability in your writing I found particularly useful.
