I feel like people with normal working memory don't understand. I’ve been diagnosed with dyslexia when I was a kid and now that I advanced in my career I started realising how much it affects me. It’s like if my brain had CPU, 80% is constantly used by trying to recall and store things temporarily.
[RANT WARNING] Usually working with MULTIPLE SCREENS, switching between code editor, terminal, browser. Waiting for CI to pass, fixing conflicts, bugs, and tests at the same time. Going to Sentry to check a new alert, switching back to the editor to look up the trace in the code, look at Slack messages, look at Notion notes, check terminal history to recall some old command you forgot about, save it as an alias in hope you remember the fucking alias later on, add it to notes.md in the alias section to recall the alias later, send a message to yourself on Slack to remember what you need to do later.…