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Cake day: July 14th, 2023

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  • On the other hand I avoided going into the field until I hit 30 because I didn’t want to spend all day on a computer and then have it effect my willingness to use a PC at home.

    Of course you don’t have to be a programmer to be stuck in front of a PC all day so I figured I might as well do something I’m good at. The main shift was that I now strongly prefer console/couch/tv gaming over PC/monitor/desk gaming.

    That said I still find I come home unmotivated for hobby dev, if I’m going to work on my hobby projects I need to get out of bed 60-90 minutes earlier and do that while I’m fresh.




  • I’m only going to mention desktop software, there’s too many tools and layers involved in spinning up a server.

    Daily use (most used first):

    • Firefox
    • MRemoteNG
    • Notepad++
    • VS Code
    • Git
    • WinSCP
    • 7-zip (love the tool but hate the format, storage and bandwidth is cheap now, let’s just use zip please)
    • VLC
    • Python

    It’s a pretty boring list: connectivity tools, text editors, and version control are placed front and centre. That said they are great tools and I would hate to live in a world where I was limited to only proprietary products

    Stuff I wish I had more time to use:

    • Godot
    • Blender
    • Audacity
    • Krita

    Special mention:

    • QGIS (and the whole OSGeo ecosystem)
    • qBittorrent
    • RetroArch (and all the FOSS emulators it promotes)
    • OpenTTD
    • GIMP/Inkscape (I don’t need them often but I’m glad they are their!)