For `updated_at` and `deleted_at` making them nullable and null until touched is incredibly useful.

Answering queries like how many of these were never updated? Or how many of these were never cancelled?

This sort of thing is also an issue for phone numbers, some other company could have used your new number for robocalls and gotten it spam blocked on Truecaller and similar services.

Makefiles also have good support for tab completion of the make targets in most shells.

Good use of Fermi reasoning

*The Lunarcy of Artemis

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https://www.etymonline.com/word/lunacy - lunacy (n.)

1540s, "condition of being a lunatic," formed irregularly in English from lunatic (q.v.) + -cy. Originally in reference to intermittent periods of insanity, such as were believed to be triggered by the moon's cycle.

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lunatic (adj.)

late 13c., "affected with periodic insanity dependent on the changes of the moon," from Old French lunatique "insane," or directly from Late Latin lunaticus "moon-struck," from Latin luna "moon" (see luna).

> the goal of a book isn’t to get to the last page, it’s to expand your thinking.

I would apply this to fiction books too. Some people consider reading fiction books a waste of time.

But fiction books too can expand your mind by exploring ideas that may not be possible in non-fiction books or exploring the same ideas but in a way that non-fiction books cannot achieve easily or at all.

As a kid, when I asked an uncle why he was always reading, he said "we read to know we are not alone". I don't know if he was quoting someone else, but I took it to mean that there are things that we think privately and don't share in any other medium but fiction. Not in conversation, film, etc.

We've all had that moment when reading fiction where we instantly recognise something and think to ourselves, 'huh, so I'm not the only one!'

For this reason, I think that fiction is an invaluable aspect of human communication.

I exclusively read nonfiction until I had a traumatic event happen to me. After that, I read fiction nonstop for several years. Fiction was the only thing that could help me process it. (Note: not escape the trauma, but help me process it. Nonfiction was too clean, black-and-white, etc. Too simple. Fiction presented a world of uncertainty and doubt that I could live through and thus reflect upon the traumas I had undergone.)

" In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."

-Mortimer J Adler

I think this quote applies too.

The way I've heard it phrased is "Non-fiction teaches us about the world, fiction teaches us about ourselves."

Do people really consider reading fiction a waste of time? I’d love to meet someone who says reading Mark Twain or Toni Morrison or Vladimir Nabokov is a waste of time. Actually … I don’t think I’d like to meet that person.

There are definitely some forms of fiction that are less enlightening than others, but even the “lowest” forms are generally time better spent than scrolling the internet or watching random TV channels.

On the typing point, touch typing is also really important to hone early as it can prevent neck strain vs not being able to touch type and constantly look down and up

It is really hard making something complex seem simple.

A lot of what we take for granted has had plenty thought put into their design.

The book the Design of Everyday Things goes into this in more detail.

It may already be the case but it's not clear. If Bruno supported importing Postman collections it would be an easy decision moving across

Yes! Bruno supports importing postman collection’s

SumatraPDF does not acquire a file lock on the pdf. This is really useful if you're debugging a process that outputs a pdf and you want to see how the pdf refreshes. With other readers the tool that tries to replace the pdf will fail as the pdf viewer has a lock on the file.