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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • I’ve used everything, vim, nvim, emacs, visual studio, vscode, sublime, codeblocks, android studio, xcode, bloodshed, intellij, eclipse, VB, geany, dreamweaver, qt, atom, and cursor (even though it’s really just a plugin)

    It doesn’t matter. It will never matter. I use vscode today because it handles everything I throw at it and it’s easy to make extensions for. Or cursor if I’m feeling lazy, the agentic mode with claude is pretty damn good if your codebase is well established.

    Don’t get hung up on the editor, just use the tools available to get the job done, at the end of the day programming is converting concepts to text.






  • If the question is how do you revive a company with a dead reputation and little sales like Kodak, but tailored to that case specifically:

    Kodak, and every other retail company, creates products that rely on not only their product, but also their brand. Companies with semi useless products sell them all the time

    K-cups, somehow took an infinitely reusable thing like a coffee maker and turned it into a tiny plastic trash cup Dasani water is awful tasting, terrible for the environment, and expensive, but they go where they’re needed

    And a million other examples, selling a product isn’t about being the best or even having something good. It’s really a matter of branding and marketing strategy.

    Rebrand kodak to a bespoke camera with a bunch of little camera accessories, a small preview screen but a bunch of little knobs, lean into the fact that it’s not a smart phone. Print on the device like those urban outfitter cameras, make a snapchat style camera that will only keep photos for a day, do something different and target a specific audience and they could be revived as something different. Work on making a camera that can’t be reproduced by ai, human authenticity fingerprints for images or something.

    Kodak as it was will very likely never make a comeback. They didn’t keep up.














    • powell ousted from the fed and govt seized control, leading to a massive change in fed funds rate
    • prison for political enemies of trump, specifically schiff, pelosi, and a few of the louder voices in the room. Prison for some state leaders, MA and CA especially
    • nationwide ban of gay marriage, nationwide laws against abortion
    • capital gains reduced significantly, 20% now down to 10%
    • vpn ban
    • trump pushing for national acceptance of a cryptocurrency he has significant stake in, as an official act
    • palestine, ukraine, and taiwan falling. Tremendous suffering continues or starts for the people of those nations
    • Russia furthers its invasion into europe
    • Muslims begin to be treated as scapegoats for trumps vitriol, the next victims after general immigrant deportations
    • A new amendment to the constitution is proposed and passes to allow more terms for trump, with clearly questionable acceptance in state legislatures, perhaps under direct threat of jail

    God I hope I’m wrong.