{"slug": "terminals", "title": "Terminals", "summary": "A developer reported having 13 open terminals, more than half running Pi or Claude Code, and acknowledged this as a sign of information overload and decision fatigue, linking to resources on cognitive load and a post about slowing down.", "body_md": "♠ Today I found myself with 13 open terminals, more than half of them running\n[Pi](https://pi.dev/) or [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code), the rest with\nvarious projects and explorations split amongst work and personal affairs.\n\n13!!\n\n[This](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_overload)\n[is](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_fatigue)\n[not](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_load)\n[a](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_partial_attention) matter of pride.\n\nI need to [take a\nbreak](https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-03-25-thoughts-on-slowing-the-fuck-down/). ∎\n\n— § —\n\nReply via [email](mailto:serendipity@perrotta.dev?subject=Reply to: Terminals)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/terminals", "canonical_source": "https://perrotta.dev/2026/08/terminals/", "published_at": "2026-08-20 16:04:21+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-20 16:16:11.803288+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Pi", "Claude Code"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/terminals", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/terminals.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/terminals.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/terminals.jsonld"}}