I have an odd inspiration for this essay. I’ve been watching a vtuber called Amelia Watson since she debuted four years ago, and today is her final stream before she ends her regular streaming activities. She’ll still be around in some capacity, and I imagine she’ll pop up again under a less corporate-controlled persona, but it’s still very much an end to the entertainment that I’ve been enjoying these past few years....

I’m a big writer of to-do lists of various forms. Things I need to do, things I should do, things I would like to do but honestly don’t matter, all the things go into lists for the day, the week, the month, the bucket list, the life goals, the whatever. I have lists of books to read and shows to watch, lists of what I need to do for various neglected projects, lists of recipes to try, software to try, hobbies to try....

Removing Visual Studio Code from my life is easy in a lot of ways. My vim setup is much prettier. It’s much faster. The plugins do exactly what I want without a bunch of crud caked around the edges. I have one major pain point with vim, though: working with a bunch of files. i am not organized enough for vim Let’s present a scenario that we’ll pretend is hypothetical. I’m in a react project, working on some component composed of a bunch of other components....

I don’t really have that many tabs open at a time. If I have more than 10 tabs sitting around on mobile that indicates to me that I need to clean up, and if I have to scroll through my desktop tabs I start closing them pretty arbitrarily. And yet, despite requiring none of the larger organization benefits of vertical tabs, I felt compelled to try them. but why though One of the benefits I’ve seen for vertical tabs is that it increases your screen real estate....