I've been a fan of Julia Evans, for what seems like ages, because of all her blog posts.<p>This is the first time I'm seeing a video of hers and I feel I've become an even bigger fan now!<p>What an amazing, incredible, human being! I don't think I've ever listened to a technical talk and smiled all the way through it!<p>Thank you, Julia, for reminding that this feeling of joy is one of the main reasons a lot of us are here.<p>And thank you, Slackwise, for posting this and sharing that joy on HN.<p>While writing this comment, I was also reminded about one of the main reasons of Matz's for inventing Ruby!
My heartburn about "share what tools you're using to reduce cognitive load" <<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30YWsGDr8mA&t=560">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30YWsGDr8mA&t=560</a>> is that <i>in my experience</i> being a tool evangelist is exceptionally hard over the Internet because tooling seems to be a very, very personal thing and suggestions to <i>just try</i> a different tool are met with resistance<p>I would guess that trick may be contextually dependent upon "when asked for help ... THEN share ..."