"This tool won’t be appropriate for all audiobook listeners. For many, the silences matter, and removing them would degrade the quality of the book. For many, listening at 2.5x would also degrade the quality of the book. So use this tool with caution."
It's nice that this was also brought up. At least for me, even though I don't listen to audiobooks, it's too easy to become too "performance-oriented" when reading something. Meaning that ticking the box "achievement unlocked, read another book" becomes more important than what you really get out of the book. Did you now retain as much information as possible? Did you savor the work of art or just gulp it down? Ironically, if you don't use tools like these carefully, listening to books may end up being even a bigger waste of time.
I'd say it's also a question of team size and organization. Are you a singular developer, or in a large team, writing enterprise software that should be easy to pick up for someone reading the code 10 years later etc.
Having studied mostly OOP/Java at the uni, and been using mostly C# at work, I realized I might actually start to find programming fun again through Go. I've studied it a bit recently and this idea of interfaces with composition over inheritance etc. made somehow a lot more sense to me, and gave me this boost to try and learn it more because it felt so enjoyable. Not even with some practical problem at hand to solve, but just on an abstract level, not having to deal with OOP classes and inheritance and all the things. Now I just need to find a Go job and get my feet a little more wet. ;P I'm talking about Go because it gives me similar feelings as Rust, but Rust I have a lot less experience with. I hope there's a similar fun and excitement to be found in Rust as well, after unlearning some old habits.
I often wonder what would currently be a way to work in a more enterprisey environment and actually make stuff a little bit more fun and not all "abstract factories" etc. I'm talking TypeScript/C#/.NET Core type of stuff, maybe with Vue. What's the "new Clean Code"? Might just learn Go next or something.
If I knew this was my last day alive, I wouldn't be here sitting at work. Living every minute as if it was your last is actually pretty difficult to do. Or perhaps it means coming up with the understanding that it's not worth your time to stress about work. Just do the work and focus on what makes you happy. Maybe even quit and live a simpler life with less income? But you usually have houses to pay, kids to raise... it can become a prison of its own kind. There's always some magical reward waiting just around the corner, be it retirement, kids moving out, when you can finally focus on yourself again. How does one truly live every moment like it was their last?
As said before, most people are "nobodies". A small number people just happen to be both brilliant enough and be at the right place at the right time with some luck involved to strike some type of more famous success for example, and also happen to have all the time in their hands to do just their one passion.
I used to compare myself to others all the time, thinking about who did what by what age etc., but in reality it's just useless and fake. It used to be that maybe you compared yourself to the other kid at school who was good at something. Now you compare yourself to somebody who made it famous on the internet who's like the "best in the world" at something. Makes comparisons like that horrible for your mental health. These days I'm just happy to have decently paying job so I can pay my taxes, which mostly contribute to many good things in my country, meaning I can still be a positive force.
Doesnt' really matter in my daily life if some IDE takes 0.1 or 10 seconds to start, since it's done so rarely. Might be more annoying with an editor if you're opening files often, then it starts to add up. Or if the editor is slow with editing and scrolling big files, like VSCode is.
Bandcamp is nice, I've also bought many albums there. Streaming stuff I mostly listen on Tidal these days, so I can imagine I get the best possible (lossless) sound quality and don't have to think I'm downgrading from CD's to Spotify when it comes to that. Not that it's a huge or even a noticeable difference in many cases... but the revenue model seems better on Tidal for the artist.
What would make me happy, both as a consumer and a musician, is that if I only listen to my favorite artist for the whole month, then 75 % of my monthly subscription money would go directly to said artist, and not Taylor Swift or what ever is the current "most popular pool".
That's sucky. My Tidal use is mostly on my desktop computer while I do work and other stuff, so it's mostly painless like that. Spotify also had pretty good remote control features through the phone app, I don't think Tidal does yet.
These days I tend to navigate more towards services that pay more to the artists for streams. In this I've found Tidal to be a good combo of lossless and master level audio with also a higher amount of money going to the musicians per stream. It actually also has pretty good suggestions and other stuff once you've first used for a little while, which was the biggest reason I've stayed with Spotify til now.
That's sadly the expectation these days. It's not like a journalist finds something interesting and spends a week or two writing a piece about it. The "news" should be up immediately so everyone can find out about it as soon as possible with some easily digestable tldr style, as it happens by the minute zero content reporting that the social media brain lives for.