Modern IDEs don’t improve the feedback loop much unfortunately, more often it’s quite the opposite. They are slow, bloated and distracting. Some of them might be good at renaming one’s variables as part of their refactoring offer, but otherwise the situation is quite often bleak.
SBSL+SLIME+Emacs usually put one in the flow state in no time. That’s what keeps amazing me and keeps me productive.
And then, Claude seems to be quite alright discussing tricky Common-Lisp-related stuff.
I’ve missed the BBSes per se and have mostly used them to download the software to bootstrap a FidoNet node. I’ve made many long-time friends on FidoNet IRL. Hearing the sound of a connecting modem always causes a rush of nostalgia. Things were much simpler back then, and indeed personal.
I have a simple project journal/log text file I add to at the end each time I work on the project. This allows me to easily get back to the context next time I decide to move the project further.
I usually keep a couple of ideas to do next, outlined at the end.
If I forget what I was doing previously or am stuck on ideas on what to do next, then I just skim back up the file.
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