miniblog.

Trying to let my 3yo try as many different technology interfaces as possible. Mouse: not too bad, especially after reducing sensitivity. Keyboard: WASD is easy to lose track of in a sea of buttons. Controller: requires both hands together, which is tricky. Arguably the left hand is more important too, hard for a right hander.

Sending patches/PRs to projects creates asymmetric work. The maintainer needs to think about the future work it might create. Fortunately CI running tests, checking formatting, even enforcing commit message style helps! Reducing the amount of work needed to accept a PR matters.

Tesla is closing many of its stores in favour of customers buying from its website. It's clear that automating a manual process reduces the number of jobs, but perhaps access to information does too? Are we reducing sales teams due to websites?