I haven’t blogged for a while and I forgot how internet commenters can get bizarrely angry about statements like “I got tired of managing my vim config so I decided to stop using vim for now”, as if it’s some kind of attack on vim (or on them??)

It makes me really appreciate @grimalkina’s work on developer culture, like this https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/2gej5_v2

I still have a lot to learn but her work has helped me start to understand where this stuff comes from

(I used vim for a long time and I love it!)

@b0rk thank you!!

I really need to write my "when thinking about our tools is thinking about ourselves" paper

@grimalkina @b0rk Yes! I want to read this.

25 years ago I wrote “Then something strange happens. They start to identify themselves with Perl, as if Perl were part of their body, or vice versa.”

https://www.perl.com/pub/2000/12/advocacy.html/