2019-10-11 - If you ain't smart you gotta be dumb.
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I'm generally too stupid to understand some things... I write my
texts in Nano. I have tried Vim, but couldn't memorize all the
bloody keycodes for longer than 5 minutes. In the end i just want
to slam on my keyboard without thinking too much. Nano does a great
job for me. I can just type and backspace and delete and cursor my
way around. And if i need to do something special, the bottom of
the screen tells me what to press. Honestly i don't understand why
people are not bragging more about Nano... (Well actually i do...
and the reason that VI users have to brag about using a text editor
is proof that this text editor is way too difficult to use) :P
I'm also too stupid or too lazy to figure out config files for my
programs. I just use my programs as they come out of the box most
of the time. Sometimes, if i really have to, i'll add a couple of
lines of configuration. For example, for lynx i've added a
startpage location.
Every time i use the 'find' command, i have to figure out how to
use it again. Same goes for un-zipping, un-tarring or unpacking
everything that's archived. I can never ever remember which flags
to use for what. I think after 15+ years of Debian using, i'm
slowly figuring out how this apt-get thing works.
Also regular expressions... Argh... I simply don't understand these
bloody things. I've used them, i've even written some succesfully.
And i wouldn't know even where to start if i had to write one now.
Without an internet connection, a regex simulator and stackoverflow
i'd be lost completely for writing a regex. The information is
packed so dense, that a dense guy like me can never wrap his head
around it.
And in conjuction to regexes, i never been very handy with sed. Or
really with any unix piping stuff. Sometimes i pipe a cat to a
grep, or maybe even output something to a > text.txt. But i never
do fancy things like the cool kids, which involves more than two
commands on a single line.
When programming in C, i have my usual fights with makefiles. I
always forget to add something. And it's not something that i'm
proficient in, in any way shape or form.
Really, after all these years of computering, there is still so
much to learn. It would not be a bad idea for me to just go back to
the essentials, and just focus on the basics.
I don't need fancy new programming languages like Python or Go. I
haven't even figured out how to use C properly. I don't need any
fancy shells, i haven't even figured out bash. I don't need any
fancy operating system, i haven't even figured out Unix basics.
What i need, is less of everything, so i can spend more time on
fewer things, and actually learn to really use something well.
