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-title: Simplifying and reducing clutter in my life and work
-url: simplifying-and-reducing-clutter.html
-date: 2019-10-14T12:00:00+02:00
-draft: false
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-
-I recently moved my main working machine back from Hachintosh to Linux. Well the
-experiment was interesting and I have done some great work on macOS but it was
-time to move back.
-
-I actually really missed Linux. The simplicity of `apt-get` or just the amount
-of software that exists for Linux should be a no-brainer. I spent most of my
-time on macOS finding solutions to make things work. Using
-[Brew](https://brew.sh/) was just a horrible experience and far from package
-managers of Linux. At least they managed to get that `sudo` debacle sorted.
-
-Not all was bad. macOS in general was a perfectly good environment. Things like
-Docker and tooling like this worked without any hiccups. My normal tools like
-coding IDE worked flawlessly and the whole look and feel is just superb. I have
-been using MacBook Air for couple of years so I was used to the system but never
-as a daily driver.
-
-One of the things I did after I installed Linux back on my machine was cleaning
-up my Dropbox folder. I have everything on Dropbox. Even projects folder. I
-write code for living so my whole life revolves around couple of megs of code
-(with assets). So it's not like I have huge files on my machine. I don't have
-movies or music or pictures on my PC. All of that stuff is in cloud. I use
-Google music and I have Netflix account which is more than enough for me.
-
-I also went and deleted some of the repositories on my Github account. I have
-deleted more code than deployed. People find this strange but for me deleting
-something feels so cathartic and also forces me to write better code next time
-around when I am faced with similar problem. That was a huge relief if I am
-being totally honest.
-
-Next step was to do something with my webpage. I have been using some scripts I
-wrote a while ago to generate static pages from markdown source posts. I kept on
-adding and adding stuff on top of it and it became a source of a
-frustration. And this is just a simple blog and I was using gulp and npm.
-Anyways after couple of hours of searching and testing static generators I found
-an interesting one
-[https://github.com/piranha/gostatic](https://github.com/piranha/gostatic) and I
-just decided to use this one. It was the only one that had a simple templating
-engine, not that I really need one. But others had this convoluted way of trying
-to solve everything and at the end just required quite bigger learning curve I
-was ready to go with. So I deleted couple of old posts, simplified HTML, trashed
-most of the CSS and went with
-[https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/](https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/)
-aesthetics.  Yeah, the previous site was more visually stimulating but all I
-really care is the content at this point. And Times New Roman font is kind of
-awesome.
-
-I stopped working on most of the projects in the past couple of months because
-the overhead was just too insane. There comes a point when you stretch yourself
-too much and then you stop progressing and with that comes dissatisfaction.
-
-So that's about it. Moving forward minimal style.