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Simplifying and reducing clutter in my life and work

Oct 14, 2019

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 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 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/ +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.

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