superconduct123

What are some fiction books that you think programmers especially would enjoy?

Doesn't have to be but I'm interested as well if there are any that are written by programmers or engineers

After the recent update my phone (iPhone 13 Pro) has noticeable stutter in the UI pretty often.

What is it about the underlying format that makes it so difficult to edit a PDF

For the last 3 years I've just been using notepad in windows and a single .txt file to keep notes for my programming job.

Every day I just open the file and add a new divider for the day at the top of the file like this:

May 13, 2025

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After 3 years I'm at 25,000 lines, 700KB in size

* Its super fast and lightweight

* notepad opens instantly

* notepad takes up very little screen space

* searching is still instant with CTRL + F

* Want to tag something? Just write "tag:something" and search for that later

It sounds kind of stupid at first, like how do you quickly get to old notes?

But I've realized over time I generally only care about the last week or 2 of notes and rarely reference older ones.

I'm curious if anyone else does this and what your stats are for the file and if you ran into any issues

It seems like a tell that some content was generated from an LLM is that it always speaks in bullet points

What causes this?