Being able to cmd+click on an import or having the prettiest color scheme or the nicest ligature-enabled font hasn’t helped me much in my career.
You know what did help? Good workflows. Good task hygiene, good information flow, that kind of stuff.
I mean, look around! Do you see any of your role models doing daily videos about their newest editor setup? Because if you do, they might be the wrong people to follow.
Most people I admire and follow are on 10+ years old setups, getting shit done. I know people who work in straight up Vim with a couple of plugins who can put any vscode-webstorm fanboi to shame.
The way I see it, they’ve decided early on to not be beta testers for everything that’s new.
And before you jump me because we might as well work on 20yo laptops based on my logic, I agree that we should invest in hardware… when we need it!
I’m still using my Sublime Text license, the Mac Terminal and a good dose of GitHub Desktop which sometimes is more convenient than the CLI.
The rest is mostly browsers and command line tools anyway…
You know what did help? Good workflows. Good task hygiene, good information flow, that kind of stuff.
I mean, look around! Do you see any of your role models doing daily videos about their newest editor setup? Because if you do, they might be the wrong people to follow.
Most people I admire and follow are on 10+ years old setups, getting shit done. I know people who work in straight up Vim with a couple of plugins who can put any vscode-webstorm fanboi to shame.
The way I see it, they’ve decided early on to not be beta testers for everything that’s new.
And before you jump me because we might as well work on 20yo laptops based on my logic, I agree that we should invest in hardware… when we need it!
I’m still using my Sublime Text license, the Mac Terminal and a good dose of GitHub Desktop which sometimes is more convenient than the CLI.
The rest is mostly browsers and command line tools anyway…