• It has a nice interface for searching history - nicer than the history search included with the shells I’ve used
• It has a “workspace” mode - it remembers which directory commands were run in, which gives you the option to limit history search to commands run in the same directory, which are often most relevant to the project you’re working on in that directory
• If you want you can back up, or sync history to multiple machines. I know I’ve been in situations where I know the command I want is in history, but it’s in history on my desktop, and I’m on my laptop at the moment

Yes, NixOS - and also Niri so your tiled windows don’t resize themselves, and you get the extra-fancy screen cast and screen shot features. That’s what I use, therefore it is the best.

I work with a very competent dev who uses Windows. I’ve even gotten him to the point of helping me to champion Nix dev shells. But he prefers to use those through WSL ¯\(ツ)/¯

The article doesn’t specifically mention DXVK which was the real breakthrough innovation IMO. Consider that Wine predates Proton by many years, and vanilla Wine is also fantastic for gaming since DXVK’s introduction. But Valve did fund DXVK by paying its inventor for full time work. So thanks Valve! Thanks Philip Rebohle! Thanks Wine devs! It’s been amazing!

My work is using Coderabbit, and I’ve found its feedback to be pretty helpful - especially since I’m working with a language I don’t have a whole lot of experience with (Python). I check what it tells me, but it has taught me some new things. I still want human reviews as well, but the AI can pick up on detail that is easy to skim over.

It doesn’t cover bigger picture stuff like maintainability, architecture, test coverage. Recently I reviewed a PR that was likely AI generated; I saw a number of cases where logic duplication invited future bugs. (Stuff like duplicating access predicates across CRUD handlers for the same resource, repeating the same validation logic in multiple places.) Also magic strings instead of enums, tests of dubious value. Coderabbit did not comment on those issues.

I’m also getting feedback from Sonarqube on the same project, which I think is static analysis. It’s much less helpful. It has less to say, and a lot of that is pointing out security issues in test code.

It shreds like electric, but it hauls like acoustic

I did the swipe to complete an -ing suffix, and yes, I see the appeal!

Entering punctuation is a bit slow using long-presses on the apostrophe key. Maybe I can get used to using the symbol layer instead.

Oh! You can swipe from the 123 key to type a symbol from the symbol layer in one gesture! That’s great! It even works for comma! Kinda accidentally - given the comma position I’m swiping over question mark, backspace, comma which gets a net result of typing just the comma. I wish it would go back immediately to the ABC layer.

Moving the cursor by holding and dragging from space feels better than the similar feature in gboard!

I miss the gboard backspace feature where you can hold and drag to selectively delete.

Nice, thanks for the tip!

I haven’t had a problem with devices not reconnecting after sleep. But I have had a problem where every once in a while my computer will toggle bluetooth off on resuming from sleep. Probably a different issue.

You might be interested to learn some history of societies without state-issued currency. The book “Debt: The First 5000 years” by David Graeber has lots to say about pre-modern systems of account. I’m aware there are some criticisms of the book so I don’t want present it as absolute truth - but it is an interesting on read, and it cites lots of anthropological studies.

One of the points of the book - and I see there are also other anthropologists who take this view - is there is no evidence that there has ever been a barter economy. Economics curriculum typically talks about prehistoric barter as an introduction; but it looks like the barter story may have been made up by Adam Smith. Smith’s “Wealth of Nations” is highly insightful, and even predicts problems with capitalism that we currently face. But he probably didn’t have the anthropological background to write authoritatively about economies of prehistoric societies.

Graeber does claim that there have been times when barter has been a stop-gap when there is a problem with money supply. So that’s a case where something like your app might come in,

When barter has appeared, it wasn’t as part of a purely barter economy, and money didn’t emerge from it—rather, it emerged from money. After Rome fell, for instance, Europeans used barter as a substitute for the Roman currency people had gotten used to. “In most of the cases we know about, [barter] takes place between people who are familiar with the use of money, but for one reason or another, don’t have a lot of it around.

These were temporary situations. The fall of Rome probably seemed like the end of the world to some people at the time. But new societal structures and currencies filled the gaps.

Hospitals are required to provide emergency treatment - what we call ED or ER visits - regardless of ability to pay. Patients are expected to pay for that treatment. It’s just that the hospital isn’t supposed to deny treatment based on whether they think patients will or won’t pay the bill. This is getting-stabilized treatment.

This is an important point in arguing for universal healthcare: if people can’t afford treatment, they’re more likely to go to the ED where they won’t be turned away. ED visits tend to cost more than non-emergency, so that drives costs up.