Mine has as well, but it's pretty useful. It's really just a search engine though, but it's indexed confluence and all other internal sites and i've found it pretty useful for everything.
It's strange that you assumed I don't work on large front-end projects rather than either asking me or sharing your own experience.
I've worked on large front-end codebases. VS Code has much better TypeScript support than IntelliJ. I'd rather this not be the case because I much prefer IntelliJ.
I made the switch from notepad++/sublime (even atom did not exist at the time). The plus side was quick editing. Most of the time you spend on a code is rewriting it (excluding reading it) and vim binding made that a breeze. And even tools provided by IDEs can be great for code massaging, VIM is still king for raw editing. And if you know the shell, you don’t miss much from IDEs.
Nowadays, I’m exploring emacs because of how easy it is to build tools in it. Vim is great for working on text, but emacs is great for creating tools that work on text.
I mean the obvious answer is language familiarity,
If your projects frontend code is in javascript/typescript ( which it is ), then using node is an easy choice. Shared libraries, shared types, etc etc
I was in the paradigm, there was very little code reuse from front to backend, some time performing validation I would like to have that option, but I would not have that as a killer feature that determined the language I use.
1. that's a lie, and "lots" of people don't use HTMX (unless I've been living under a rock and there is a non-unsubstantial number of people using it :D )
2. HTMX IS javascript, and you can still use the same familiar packages across front end and backend e.g. lodash
unfortunately this disables the media keys completely -- the point of the linked software is it still allows it for media players intended -- such as spotify; and blocks the apple media player from hihacking
Can you remap the entire keyboard so it's actually an ISO layout? I've been using Ukelele for this, but it's not optimal so I'm going to switch. Was considering Karabiner Elements, but i like Lua so maybe Hammerspoon is better?
I had never heard of FBI radio but it's right up my alley, and I've actually lived in Sydney for many years. So cheers for the inadvertent recommendation there
When doing personal projects I have to constantly be reeling myself back in from doing x thing "The Right Way", because I end up doing a bunch of useless crap and not actually making progress on the personal project.
Easy to fall into that trap when 1) it's just you and 2) there is little accountability because it's just you!
My tactic for pushing back against this is to try to trick myself into doing the simplest thing that might still work. It's a challenge to write "bad" code on purpose. The opposite of chasing perfect/clean.
I have found that this frees up a lot of weird expectations that you place yourself under. You can get much more creative when everything is a dumb-ass-simple public static member vs when you are spending 2 hours a day fighting a cursed IoC/DI abstraction simply because you are worried that clean code Jesus might be watching you.
It helps to have an end goal too. It's really easy for me to push through a messy prototype when I can see it bringing me closer to a strategic objective.
Bingo. First get it working, then get it right, then get it fast. It's for this reason that almost all of my projects start with a SQLite database - it's a program I'm very familiar with, like an old reliable chef's knife.
Don't forget about the part where you actually do start on the project, but then you read one article or find another tool/software package that makes you second guess everything you've already done and you go back down another rabbit hole.
IME this "second-guessing" is more often right than wrong. You can always return to a project that motivates you, but you can't get back time spent digging a hole deeper, and often it leads to tunnel vision and bad habit formation.
Not every "project" needs to become "finished" or "product".
It is pretty funny. That said, if it's just a personal project then sometimes it's more about the journey -- smelling every flower is the enjoyable part of the journey. Sometimes.
I mentioned smelling the flowers because I look to young kids for reminders about the little things we sometimes forget to enjoy along the way, even if it's just the short journey from the car to the house. When you're not in a hurry, remember to enjoy the wonderful things that lie in your path.
