Let no good crisis go to waste
-- Winston Churchill 1
I’ve been thinking about the above quote lately. Normally this is applied in political contexts, but I think it does a good job describing the last couple of months for me. For example, today I’ve been sick as a dog (probably with that new covid variant). Normally I would be trying to speed things along by rotting my brain on YouTube or other pointless entertainment. While there was some of that, I was really surprised to find myself wanting to write some code for a project I’m working on! And this wasn’t Agentic Engineering™. I was enjoying writing good old-fashioned, organic, artisanal, free-range, handwritten code. I knew I had to summarize (at least for myself) how exactly I got here.
source & further reading
alexselimov.com — original article
Kagi Search, human connection, and why LLMs are not a good search replacement
Handling the great code forge fragmentation
Staring at walls to improve focus and productivity