Tools & Creating

A few months ago, I was thinking about whether to buy a new computer. I was weighing the pros and cons of whether it was worth it because my macbook pro 13" wasn't completely dead yet. Everytime I ran more than 3 applications at a time (which is all the time, it sounded like it was about to take off.

I tweeted a very generic, non-thought provoking about wanting a new laptop and was blown away by the replies I got.

January 21, 2022

Mostly from some modern internet friends (what do you call people you mainly know in online contexts?) Mathurah and Jasmine. They got me thinking about the tools I use. Jasmine drew the analogy of artists and their instruments - as a technologist, my instruments are the tools that I use to build. If I thought of myself as an artist, I would not settle for anything less than the best tools I could afford for my craft.

I never really thought deeply about code as a craft before this. But my goal for the next few months, is to spend more time on doing things that don't scale - and just have fun with it. Create things and play with code.