I've been thinking a lot about tooling lately. Being a programmer at heart my most important tool is, of course, my editor.

I have been promiscuous in my use of editors in the past, ranging from my first love back from my heathen days on Windows to my forever home: Emacs.

I've been using Emacs for a few years at this point, but I don't think I really internalized that this is where I want to stay until just recently.

While reading through the OrgMode FAQ one evening, as one does, I found myself looking at a link to a video about Emacs from 2008.

"2008!" I thought to myself. WTF was I doing in 2008 wasting my time with Resharper (or some such nonsense, probably).

If only I'd been mastering Org Mode to, well, organize my life! How far would I in my Emacs journey by now?

I refuse to spend much time on that actual line of thinking, tempting as it is to self-flagellate, I do think it indicates a shift in perspective.

I'm in this for the long haul. I'm reminded of advice from smartest person I know about editors: (paraphrased, because I wasn't diligent about note taking when he said it!) "Your text editor is a use-it-for-life tool. You should pick one worthy of such an investment in your time."

In his view there were only two such editors at the time: Vim and Emacs.

He was already well on his way down the Vim road and I spent several years following along.

As a result, I found Jesus modal editing and I haven't looked back.

Anyway, none of this is meant to be rhetorical in any way...more just a description of my own journey.

I won't elaborate on my specific usage of Emacs and Org Mode but suffice to say I'm getting a lot of benefit out of both tools lately and I only see more value in them down the road.

I know this kind of post is essentially a death knell for a personal blog. I'll see you again in 2028, I guess.