Pure Bliss
25 Jul 2023
Read this today on the blog and it hits home! I'll swap vim with vsc with an inbuilt terminal window
Pure bliss to me looks like an empty calendar, headphones on, vim and Chrome devtools/terminal open so I can get straight into my flow state.
And what management wants developers to do:
“Well, you’re doing great at writing code, now in order to get promoted you will have to manage other people who write code.”
Source: https://www.mux.com/blog/becoming-an-engineering-manager
So true. Feels absurd if you think of coding as your craft and you want to get better at it. It's like telling an artist to stop painting and manage other artists.