Keep trying new tools — a case study from st to kitty
One of the healthiest habits I’ve picked up over the years is to keep trying new tools — even, and especially, for things I use dozens of times a day. That applies whether you’re switching between commercial apps, trying a different free software project, or, in my case, maintaining your own fork of something you could just install from a package manager.
Getting attached to tools keeps you in the past. The terminal you patched in 2021 made sense in 2021. The editor you learned in 2011 made sense in 2011. But the ecosystem moves on, and if you’re not periodically asking “is there something better now?”, comfort slowly turns into friction you stop noticing.
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James is a "full stack" Open Source enthusiast, who enjoys creating no-nonsense open source software.