Posts tagged: productivity
The 4-Desktop Cognitive Firewall — KWin Rules That Killed My Context Switch Loop
Waiting on builds is when the damage happens. A reflexive browser tab switch breaks the sequential focus loop. Here is the KDE KWin rule configuration that locks the distraction out.
The Entropy Collapse Thesis — Why One Tool, Why Clojure, Why LLMs as Compiler
One engineer's argument for minimizing cognitive entropy by collapsing the toolchain into the smallest possible surface area — Clojure/Babashka as the substrate, LLMs as the compiler, and why inheritance is a design violation.
Git Workflow Visual Guide: Organizing Local Code vs GitHub Repos
A visual walkthrough of a local Git workflow that separates your own GitHub projects from upstream forks and local experiments, with diagrams for every stage.
Collapse Entropy to Zero — Dev Velocity and the Human Limit
Cognitive vertigo is what happens when the number of open decisions exceeds working memory. The fix is not more caffeine — it is collapsing entropy to zero by eliminating all unresolved state.