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This is if you don’t know what’s a clipboard manager.

Imagine there was a history of everything you have recently copy-pasted. Then if you needed one of those pieces of info again, you could quickly find it there. Clipboard managers make that possible.

They are available in most operating systems and their setup is usually simple. They are built in Windows 11 and Android. In Fedora I installed Gnome Clipboard History . Thanks to Alex Saveau !

I don’t know why it took me so long to realize that you can create a .gitignore with only an * in any folder, and then you don’t have to include that folder’s name in your root .gitignore. You can even rename the folder without having to touch anything else.

This is great for quick experiments or an agent scratchpad.

Example:

my-service/
└── .scratch/
    ├── .gitignore  # contains only *
    ├── prompts/
    ├── alternative-implementation/
    ├── benchmark-results/
    └── notes.md

I think you don’t see true change coming. If you can predict it, even if it’s big, it’s not a “real” change. In my experience, real change it’s very rare.

From science to software engineering

For instance, since I was a kid I thought I would be a scientist. The way I saw it, science was the noblest enterprise of humanity, the best way of giving value back to society. I went to high school and to college and then to work as a professional scientist, always maintaining that very same belief. Hence, even though my life changed a lot through all these stages, it wasn’t “real” change, because it was all predictably part of the same plan.

Why am I’m creating a personal site?

Well, the idea is to have the most important things about me in a single place under my control.

If you want to take control over your online presence, I really recommend that you give it a try. A personal site it’s not as hard as it sounds. I had the realization yesterday that I needed it, and just made it happen by today.