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My contrarian take: I prefer to work from a small laptop, with a non-fullscreen terminal window, and no IDE. This forces me to understand the code I’m working on better - since I can’t see a lot of things at a glance, I got really good at juggling concepts in my working memory. I’ve read that visually challenged people who get really good at super fast text-to-speech almost acquire a super power of quick comprehension, and I guess I’m emulating something like that with my minimalistic setup.


> My contrarian take: I prefer to work from a small laptop, with a non-fullscreen terminal window, and no IDE.

Ah, the Joey Hess DE: https://usesthis.com/interviews/joey.hess/





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