I turned my hotspot off in order to write. I first came to the computer with the intention of writing, but I was captured by one of the ten thousand things, and though it wasn’t useless (sending important emails and resolving quick wins on blank.page) when one sits down to write, on…
I was editing the preceding paragraph and the damn header came out. Many things are simultaneously curses and blessings, being able change the tool that you use to be creative is one of these blesses/curses. It is a blessing, because it allows you to experience the product from feeling, and at the same time you simply want to sit down to write but you think it will take five minutes to resolve but then you go down the rabbit hole and…
The header behavior is a blessing in disguise, it says “stop fooling around, I’ll jump around until you stop editing, nananana”. Perhaps a mode that we ought to implement: if you move the cursor a life bar is reduced. What are you doing reaching for that mouse, the cursor is blinking waiting for your words!
Though I admit that my favorite mode is no-mode. It’s the place where I come to write and nothing distracts me. Except when I’m writing near the bottom of the page the word count obstructs my writing. Oh lord forgive my hatred to a thing that can be resolved in five minutes.
Let us jump into Sublime Text, test if it works…
Well, that was around five minutes indeed, and it seems to work for me. I’d say it was worth the detour. I’ve deployed the fix already. Ooops, I left some logging in the console…
Done.
Let’s just write a bit more to verify the solution. I haven’t reloaded…
Not a fan of the css scrolling effect. I think I would animate scrolling depending on circumstance. Upon load, animated scrolling is a distraction. Should I try to resolve this issue right now?
Oh dear it is terrible. Yes, I’ll try right now,
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Now the page doesn’t scroll-animate upon load.
Is it time to leave things at peace?
I almost forgot to deploy (blank.page)[https://blank.page].
Deployed.
Oh dear I looked at some preceding paragraphs, and now if I try to edit from the beginning of the sheet it brings me all the way back to the bottom. This is good for don’t-you-dare-to-edit mode but not good for any other scenario. I must hot-fix this. Aha, I already know where the problem is…
It seems to work, but now I must look for what I was editing in the first place. One does not write with any elegance when one is debugging the tool he is writing with. I’ll read from the beginning…
It seems that pain driven product design and development is a valid way of building products. I need to explore this way of writing and registering tasks more.