I do a really lightweight version of flash cards. Everytime I'm learning a new tool or tech, I grab oversized notecards (my favorite are 8x5" dot-grid cards). I put a label at the top, and create bullet points of each item i want to remember. I then review. No individual cards for each item or anything. Just all the things grouped on one card as bullet points.
For example, I'll have a `sqlite` card, and put all the commands and everything on it, as I learn them. I'll use it as a cheatsheet, but then also a few minutes of mindful review. This for the toolings that I want to know well enough to not get slowed down googling the commands. I do this for a lot of CLI tools, but also things I need to remember about the business of my company and working across group, etc....
Eventually the five or six working cards I have, get put on a pile and new ones come in.....
at least you haven't optimized a workflow to convert the page to markdown file, download locally into some folder that you watched 30 youtube videos on how to organize your knowledge graph....to never read later, or to burn 10s of Ks of tokens to build into karpathy wiki knowledge tree....
This is what I'm hoping to do. I haven't done much research yet, so I look forward to reading about your learnings. (Also to the person who responded to you with their experience and link.)
Thanks for saving me probably some hours...
EDIT: I'm also coming from an old Synology NAS from the ~2015 era.
I shift a 1 GB electron app to a 900 MB browser tab (i don't know what it actually is, but the number of Tabs I have taking up 1 GB memory is shocking these days).
Trying to vibe as many of my own CLI toolings as possible....
My favorite google hallucination was that the famous jazz bass player, Jaco Pastorious, who passed away in the mid-80s, was the bassist for Metallica. I have a screen shot of that one around....
Not real work. It's an amazing couch laptop, though. I do have a full CLI tooling pipeline setup, though. I mostly read, research, and write on it. Chrome tabs galore open, Obsidian, etc...
It's pretty amazing at the price point. Thought last year the M4 Airs were on sale for $749 -- I'm doubtful we'll see that price again on those....
I'm on a NEO right now, my Chrome has like 25 tabs open. Doom Emacs running in terminal, Obsidian open, Apple Music, Apple NOtes, etc. I have a lot open...
AND I'm not seeing this issue. What am I missing?
I'm on 26.4.
:shrugs:
EDIT: I guess I wait to update and install the latest version? Maybe the linked page could have stated there's a new regression in newer MacOS versions that introduced this?
I don't think frontier model providers are going to be incentivized to invest in this much, yet. Once inference gets more competitive, sure. I haven't looked lately, but won't be surprised if tools like OpenCode do do what you're suggesting, though. Third-party coding harnesses ARE aligned to deliver this type of feature and optimization.
Did everyone like this Stephensen in this thread? I read Cryptonomicon and Seveneves, mostly. They slogged for me a bit. But I love what he writes about, so willing to try another one (even if he doesn't have an editor). It sounds like this could be topical 2027 read. I have a long summer ahead of me.
I need the equivalent of Claude Code, but for hardware projects, so I can actually do all the projects I envision with the EPS32s.
Something that combines: 3d printing; auto procurement of parts; custom software writing; maybe a robot arms or something, all in a nice box on my desk that I feed parts into like a mail slot. PROFIT.
Ha, if I had $10M, i'd be way gone. Pretty sure I could live my lifestyle for the next 30 years on that. I could live it on $5M, pretty easily. But where I'm at, I'm at the fringe, even if I have to move to Canada for healthcare when I'm old. And I'm saying this from having a house paid-off (where the taxes went up something like 40% last year -- and I'm guessing will keep going up?).
I'm not convinced living in the US that all the financial planning algs that big finance institutions are using and going to hold up in the future, and curious how it works for a whole generation. But time will tell. So far the cycle always corrects itself. I'm especially curious how it works when there's going to be a lot more early to mid-50s employees being forced into retirement, who are going to be living a long time, yet.
I'm especially paranoid about my prospects of retirement if the market dives 50%. It's happened in the past, and plenty of old hacker news articles about how it really screwed up people's retirement plans. Look back at Stock market returns for some tech companies from 2000 - 2014. That's a big span to fill.... ( I think I read somewhere that the market return for 2000 - 2010 was just over 1% year, someone should fact check that, though).
I don't think it matters how you define it. Engineering career growth is almost always going to be about understanding the new technologies, gaining communication skills in navigating an org. etc....
What you're calling personal growth is 100% related to career growth. And you sound like someone who does do things outside the hours of 9 to 5 that intellectually you find interesting, and likely makes you better at what you do 9 to 5...
You're going to show up at that meeting someday, there's going to be a problem to solve, and you're going to have some ideas for things to try that are answers, because you read about that new tech. And someone's going to tap you on the shoulders to lead that or what not....
I'm fascinated by all the underachievers downvoting me.
Do y'all really not read Hacker News while board sitting on the couch? Discover a new programming language that looks interesting? Play with some new database technology? Read a reddit sub related to technogoly, etc. after the hours of 9 to 5? Vibe some fun looking idea, even if you just throw it away?
I'm kind of doubtful the people who are actually spending time learning something on Hacker News fall really into the category that they're not working on their career growth outside of work hours....
are you sure the demand is gone? The whole point of this article is that Apple had to double production because demand was so high.
EDIT: i just looked up how many ipads apple shipped in 2025: 60M, so yeah, no shortage of demand in iPads. Most people are consumptioners, though, so that kind of makes sense.
How is the OS Free? It's part of what you pay for.
I have a 11 year old PC -- running Cosmos now, and it's still faster than my hobbled M4 PRO with 48 GB, work mac with all it's corp spyware cruft on it.
We should expect more than 7 years out of all our tech hardware.
EDIT: I say this as a person who spent a couple weekends trying to get various forms of Linux running on a 2017 Macbook Pro, because it was stuck on VEntura.
I bought one: I was hesitant about the 8 GB of memory at first. But I'm happily running Chrome with like 20 tabs and some other apps, and performance isn't an issue.
It's mostly a couch laptop.
I run Obsidean, messaging apps, writing tools. I use some CLI toolings...
I really wanted a Framework 12, but I got $180 credit on a ipad AIR 4, and sold a 2017 Macbook Pro for $150 (US), so that effectively made this a 280 upgrade, and reduced the risk in me going for it.
I love this thing.
* love the keyboard, it’s such an improvement over the older laptops. Worth getting rid of that old Macbook Pro for this alone
* Keyboard isn’t backlit. Thought that would be annoying, but i’m good enough touch typist that in the dark, i can still navigate around no problem.
* Lack of touch sensor. I just turned off most security prompting, like passwords when filling in websites, etc. and just rely on typing my password in once when logging on. On my todo is to turn on authentication from my Apple Watch, might make not having a touchid a non-issue.
* The screen!
Did I say I love the form factor?
I still wish it was shaped like my former favorite computer: the 11" Macbook Air, with the tapered edges and such.
I'm optimistic that the next version of Framework 12 will have better screen and be a nice aluminum body...but until then.....
I'm curious what industries are you going to switch to, and it is just to get like healthcare, or soemthing...
I've been contemplating the same. Saved my whole life. But I still don't feel like I have enough saved for a long retirement (i'm in US, and not planning on moving abroad for cost of living improvements, like you hear so many people around here tout).