I'm happy to see this. It belongs in the stdlib and not a third-party module.

Interesting insight.

It's my fantasy to do this. Congrats on having the courage.

My friend does this and I feel the same way. I could never bring myself to do this, I cant even smile at people

> What’s left behind are opaque, black box systems with almost no one who understands how they work.

Maybe 50-year-old COBOL programs are the original neural networks.

Good money elsewhere for people capable of (a) learning COBOL (b) being effective in a legacy codebase and (c) operating in a large organization in a political savvy way.

I’d also note that COBOL is only one layer of the stack.

The real complexity lies in also understanding z/OS (mainframe operating systems), CICS, JCL, and the rest of the mainframe runtime, it’s an entirely parallel computing universe compared to the x86 space.

> Really good money in it for people who want to learn COBOL though.

False, all those jobs were outsource and offshored long ago.

A lot of them are domestic, either in the public sector directly (so probably not really good money, but usually pretty decent benefits and job security) or with government contractors which require the work to be domestically (so maybe good money.)

The most useful script I wrote is one I call `posh`. It shorten a file path by using environment variables. Example:

  $ posh /home/ramrachum/Dropbox/notes.txt
  $DX/notes.txt

Of course, it only becomes useful when you define a bunch of environment variables for the paths that you use often.

I use this a lot in all of my scripts. Basically whenever any of my script prints a path, it passes it through `posh`.

I'd love to see this script. Does it use `env` and strip out things like PWD?

I wrote it in a way that's too intertwined with my other shit to be shareable with people, but honestly you can copy-paste my comment to your friendly neighborhood LLM and you'll get something decent. Indeed it uses `env`.

Understood. I'd rather write it myself from scratch than use an LLM; confirmation of the general process should be enough, I hope!

Dating apps are not meant to be efficient, definitely not to someone with a developer mindset.

Yeah, you're not supposed to switch to a different app. They want you to stay in the app and engage.

And that sucks.

I wrote this Chrome extension to solve this problem for myself 2 years ago: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/focustoscroll/jbcpo...

Apparently no one else was interested in it. I still use it daily.

Can you share a photo of the backpack?

It's quite similar to this:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/267204880751

Basically a non-descript nylon bag with minimal accoutrements. I curse its lack of features (extra pockets, etc) on every trip, then it goes on the shelf until the next trip. It was on sale at the local sporting goods store when I was in high school. I recently bought a cheap waterproof cover for it, because I noticed that most of the advertised "waterproof" packs come with a cover.

I have a very lightweight, tiny day pack that I either roll up and stuff in the main pack, or carry on as my "personal item." That way, I can leave the big pack in my hotel room.

I printed it but it doesn't work :(

I developed a similar solution for Windows over a decade ago which I've been using every day. It works but it needs to be made easy for people other than me to use (Readme, requirements file, etc.) If anyone volunteers to spend a few hours polishing it, email me and I'll open-source it.