ThePrimeagen Hacks My Productivity

This month, I took a course from ThePrimeagen all about developer productivity. Here are some of my thoughts on the contents of the course!
ThePrimeagen's Developer Productivity Course: frontendmasters.com/courses/d...
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[@LouisDuran]

I use VIM in the terminal in VS.Code. My productivity has doubled!

[@scottmacchia]

That’s how all senior devs work for sure

[@NorthernChimp]

So now what do you still use the text editor part of VS Code for?

[@paulywalnutz5855]

copilot obv@@NorthernChimp

[@FelipeV3444]

I've been doing C# on Linux and NeoVim for months now. I must be masochistic because I haven't been able to setup a debugger yet, but man, NeoVim is too much fun.

[@SoreBrain]

As that course is on my todo list, this video was quite insightful, thank you!

[@scottmacchia]

Perfect timing! Have you taken his other courses?

[@SoreBrain]

@@scottmacchia I'm half way through "The Last Algorithms Course You'll Need" and I really enjoy it. I'm currently in the process of switching to QWERTY from my german layout and while I'm at it I'm also properly learning touch-typing instead of my freestyle technique. As I'm not yet at my regular typing speed this makes coding a lot less enjoyable but it helps me in my path of learning vim later this year with proper muscle memory.

[@scottmacchia]

Why switch away from QWERTZ to QWERTY?

[@minutesock9649]

Interesting insight.

[@shrirambm9527]

I followed up prime for so long. I dual booted my system to take full controll over system. Once i get into i3 and tmux i got addicted to that .now I barely use windows.

[@scottmacchia]

Nice. I’ll probably still be using Windows for at least as long as I work for Microsoft. But it’s nice to have WSL as an option

[@scottmacchia]

I only found out about Prime last year. I wish I heard some of his advice earlier in my career but later is better than never.

[@n.a3642]

What editor / ide ?

[@Keyur7859]

Hey Scott, really nice video! I was wondering if i can help you edit your videos and also make highly engaging shorts out of them.

[@zzantares]

your voice sounds exactly to that one of Andrew Chow maintainer bitcoin-core contributor... just thinking out loud.

[@scottmacchia]

I’m probably a bad judge of my own voice but I can’t hear the similarity :/

[@lukekulak7165]

cool vid!

[@brunnocostam]

noice!

[@NickSteffen]

Yea, while it might take a thousand years to crack an algorithm today, 5 years from a security hole could appear that takes that number way down, combined with advances in computing power, it’s just not worth the risk.

[@mariobroselli3642]

Where did He post what He uses?

[@scottmacchia]

I've learned a lot about his setup from just watching his streams. I'm not sure if he has a public list of equipment that he uses though.

[@memaimu]

Incredible satire. Had me second guessing myself.

[@lostplug]

Say u swear that’s satire? Really? Was the course bad or something?

[@laughingvampire7555]

he is so cliché with his hoodie

[@bombrman1994]

bruh your productivity will be less initially just because you will be sinking time into configuring everything when you have vscode that can do all you need with one click. Not saying vscode is better than having your own dotfiles setup with all tmux, zsh, nvim fully setup like a chad, but if you want to be productive sit on ur ass and write code does not matter where

[@scottmacchia]

That’s definitely true. In fact, I don’t plan to use most of the tools mentioned in the course (ex: Ansible, Dvorak keyboard, dotfiles management). However, for the tools I have adopted, the hope is that time is saved in long run even though it will cost me some time now.

[@RT-.]

XKCD 1205 - Is it worth the time? 😂

[@bombrman1994]

only you can tell, are you in a state where you are bored of your current job and current project and have free time to invest into this time sink. There is profit in the long-run and make it personalized to motivate you to work if its draining@@RT-.

[@DMSBrian24]

​@@scottmacchia iirc he doesn't recommend dvorak and says he wouldn't have switched to it if he was deciding right now, he only did it for medical reasons but then discovered it was not necessary

[@scottmacchia]

@DMSBrian24 Ah interesting. You are correct that he does not explicitly recommend it in the course. I’ve not heard him talk about why he uses it. I’ll have to check that out

[@coffee-is-power]

0:40 uhm acshually 🤓 thats still a virtual machine, wsl 1 was a compatibility layer like wine on linux, but in wsl 2 its just a virtual machine

[@h.hristov]

NixOS could make Ansible obsolete

[@robertstojs]

NixOS is a complete mess and not nearly in the same realm as Ansible

[@Hedshodd]

I've been using NixOS for years, and I'm a big fan, but no, it doesn't make ansible; not even close.

[@saeedjalali7339]

@@Hedshodd Hi. Can you explain a little more?

[@BucketHead6541]

​@@saeedjalali7339 Another user/fan of NixOS and Ansible here. They're two different projects with two different goals. NixOS's is making a truly declarative, repeatable operating system. Ansible's is declarative, automated configuration of infrastruture. NixOS isn't going to build my Cisco switch, nor is it going to manage my company's red hat systems. Ansible isn't going to ensure, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that my system is exactly what is described in its scripts; just that what is declared there has been done. Both are extremely useful tools and will continue to be

[@CompanionCube]

no