Programming · by Oliver Smith · 2026-10-01
What is worth spending money on for tools in real life?
My current rule is simple: if it takes less than 6 minutes to prepare, I am much more likely to keep doing it.
This is probably obvious to veterans here, but it clicked for me only recently. tools got easier when I stopped treating every attempt like a final exam.
> Tiny progress is still progress.
That line sounds cheesy, but it got me through the part where debugging stopped feeling new
This is probably obvious to veterans here, but it clicked for me only recently. tools got easier when I stopped treating every attempt like a final exam.
> Tiny progress is still progress.
That line sounds cheesy, but it got me through the part where debugging stopped feeling new
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