I still use my super optimized c++ email filter to this day, 25 years later. Beats anything else I ever tried.

As for medium format, there are hundreds of Folding cameras that are pretty much as good as the obvious massive SLRs people are so keen on. I own and use a dozen of them, some of them absolutely legendary, like Zeiss Ikontas or Super Isolettes or the russian Iskras and Moskvas.

Quite frankly, having owned a few SLRs myself (I only kept a Bronica S2A with a 50mm lens) I more often than not use the folders because, well, for one thing I can literally have 3 in my bag with 3 different films! The good ones are as good or better than the SLRs, and as long as you don't mind a fixed lens, they do the job very well and often as way more character than the "system"'s ones.

Keep on rolling :-)

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I've now recovered enough that I can type/edit faster, but I still use it; I keep a Worksheet.md tab around and keep a whole running log of stuff, LLM prompts etc

Just don't do that. I used to do that just fine and that's why I thought I was OK. I mean, I USED to go on in huge coding benders, did'nt I ? Well apparently not at 55, when the pressure has been on for months instead of weeks.

Other things to watch -- diet! With the work came less free time, put on weight etc and all the good habits I had built for years, disappeared.

And the worst bit you can think of is "Oh but I'm so CLOSE to being done, I'll just fix it up later when I can relax". Just don't.

I lost all sensation on the right side. It is coming back slowly. I can still work, didn't lose speech or mobility or strength, I consider myself super-mega-lucky in that.

Well yes, your JetKVM no longer has a lease.

Don't ask me how I discovered this one :-)

[0]: https://github.com/buserror/simavr/blob/master/examples/shar...

I don't need to "remember NFS", NFS is a big part of my day!

Very often it comes down to HR issues in the end, so you end up having to take that code anyway, and either sneakily revert it or secretly rework it...

But I agree completely some juniors are a pleasure to see bloom, it's nice when one day you see their eye shine and "wow this is so cool, never realized you made that like THAT for THAT reason" :-)

Also, I make it work the same way I do: I first come up with the data model until it "works" in my head, before writing any "code" to deal with it. Again, clear instructions.

Oh another thing, one of my "golden rule" is that it needs to keep a block comment at the top of the file to describe what's going on in that file. It acts as a second "prompt" when I restart a session.

It works pretty well, it doesn't appear as "magic" as the "make it so!" approach people think they can get away with, but it works for me.

But yes, I still also spend maybe 30% of the time cleaning up, renaming stuff and do more general rework of the code before it comes "presentable" but it still allows to work pretty quickly, a lot quicker than if I were to do it all by hand.

Paranoid? me? nahhhhh :-)

The interesting bits are for example the -MMD flag to gcc, which outputs a .d file you can -include ${wildcard *.d} and you get free, up to date dependencies for your headers etc.

That and 'vpath' to tell it where to find the source files for % rules, and really, all the hard work is done and your 1/2 page Makefile will stay the same 'forever' and wills still work in 20 years...