Eventually we tried to get free gear from various electronics companies by writing to them as Moraine Scientific Corp and requesting samples.

"The illusion where increased saturation (or chroma) of a color is perceived as an increase in the color's lightness."

But that is notably wrong. Lightness is a tonal metric (closer to white, more lightness) and is defined as such on that site as well.

In the H-K effect, emitted light of greater saturation (less lightness) is perceived as higher luminance (brighter) than emitted light of greater lightness.

A more accurate statement would be "The effect whereby colors of greater saturation than, but equal luminance to, a less saturated reference color are perceived to be of greater luminance that the reference color." (I'm sure that could be tightened up.)

A very different thing.

Today I don't use any "super specialized" tooling for task management. Intentionally. I don't like being wedded to any given app. My tools are Apple Reminders (universal for my family since we're all on Apple devices) and Obsidian (or really just plain text / markdown, accessed currently through obsidian).

Lots of thoughts about all this but in short there were some good ideas I took from GTD (universal capture being the biggest, but that's not really a GTD unique idea) but most of it I've jettisoned.

(my obsidian / markdown usage is basically "take notes, sometimes notes become projects, those projects automatically show up in a dashboard" and mixing notes, content, and tasks organically)

As my eyes age I often use Solarized in higher contrast configuration, so I'm sensitive to this issue.

1) I don't use Solarized everywhere religiously. I use it a LOT, no surprise. Still my preferred color scheme in most editing, terminal, code situations. But I am happy to use other well designed colorschemes in various contexts (writing, task management apps, etc.). Even when Solarized is available, sometimes variety is what's called for.

2) Solarized was designed to enable the colors to be used in high contrast modes as well. As my eyes age I sometimes will apply the colorscheme in a higher contrast mode. This adaptability is sometimes overlooked but it is inherent and intentional to the design.

There have been plenty of other color schemes that I think it's safe to say have been inspired by Solarized and this is very satisfying to see. Many of them have done a better job at thinking through the git structure of their projects :)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6452798-command-and-cont...

Streaks has a great "don't do this" function for tracking habits. Recommended as a habit/recurrence tracker in general.

It was the biggest lemon I've ever owned. I've been through multiple mainboards, dozens of repair center calls for battery and power issues (which persist even now).

(Having owned somewhere around a half dozen different ThinkPads, all of them well loved up till the P50, this was a sad end to my support of that platform.)

Zach Blum (CEO/co-founder) would regularly follow up on issues and tickets himself, always friendly and helpful.

I know transitions like this can be rough but I'm glad to see them achieve this success.

They simply don't understand computers when they walk in my classroom door. They understand mobile app user interfaces.

While you can do visual/block based coding on these, it also has built in Python support and the whole curriculum I ran was Python based.

My criteria for selection of this platform included: - support for Grove sensors - flexibility in machining own parts if desired - Python support - rPi based

(no affiliation with this company, just a positive real world end-user/educator experience)

But to 6th graders I taught CLI basics and Inform7 (all on the command line).

It was one of the most successful "programming and computer basics" courses I've ever run. A fair amount of custom tooling to make it run smoothly, but a shared VPS for the students and some deploy scripts made it possible to not only make individual games but also collaborate on a larger scale game written collaboratively (each user writing their own set of rooms which was compiled automatically into a full game).

in so far as it makes them realize that computers are discrete entities that are networked and that this is what the internet actually IS... it's priceless.

The first time we connected to a remote machine in a different state it BLEW THEIR MINDS. One of them asked if it was EVEN LEGAL :)

It's a single command, yes, but it's also the pivot point for a whole unit on remote access, networking, IP addresses, etc.

So consider SSH shorthand for that whole subject.