I had never considered until now that my left thumb never touches the keyboard.

I think having Shift available for the thumb would help a lot (in the middle just below Space bar).

Most experimental layouts that add more features make the mistake to overload it, some of these things even look totally thumb-driven.... This make everything very confusing. Just Shift for a start, would be good. The pinky is too much overloaded. Offloading some of it to the thumb would actually be an improvement.

Their website says 2014. Amazon says 2018. But definitely not 2024, unless I am missing something.

Direct link is https://htdp.org/2024-11-6/Book/index.html which says "Released on Wednesday, November 6th, 2024 7:36:10pm"

I think this is the 2024 digital release of the 2014/2018 physical publication.

I believe it was edited on the release date given.

I would not use this because of the distracting stuff on the borders. Hardly "minimalist".

Good point. If I added a button to hide the random stuff, would it work better for you?

Can someone explain this? One three occasions in the essay, including the title. he adds a cryptic "2001 Tor". What does that mean? It does not exist in the many other mentions of the same book title. Also, Amazon believes the publication year is 2002. What is "2001 Tor"?

Per [0], the book was published by Tor in 2001.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Collected_Stories_of_Verno...

2001 is a year. Tor is a publisher.

Well, either no, or I would not know, as the point is C++ programmers are not nearly as self-congratulatory.

Not self-congratulatory, but bragging about being a real programmer ™ and not part of the ”webdev pleb”.

100 percent

Can I guess, from one not in the field, and no one bothering to define it? "Large Language Model"? I don't think it is a "a graduate qualification in the field of law". JFCFFS

About a minute in, I could not figure out if satire or self-absorbed. I stopped reading.

Self-absorbed yes, and could be condensed into a few paragraphs - it was clearly written stream of consciousness and not edited. Nevertheless, I was able to sponge up the core idea.

The absence of the go binary as a tool (i.e. "go get ...", "go install ..." etc.) is odd, considering that is what has been eating Python's lunch lately.

Another starting point: https://github.com/dagger/dagger/tree/main/ci