Totally agree — tools don’t beat rituals. A review cadence is what turns notes from “storage” into outcomes.
What I’m exploring is designing the tool around that ritual: make the review session the first-class UX, and keep everything else quiet. For example, during a scheduled review it can help you: identify the few notes worth acting on, extract 1–3 next actions, and link them to a small set of active projects—then get out of the way.
In your experience, what cadence actually sticks: daily 10 minutes, or a deeper weekly review?
Details in my HN profile/bio if you’re curious how I’m thinking about “ritual-first” design.
The video games industry is suffering a lot of headwinds, so it's misleading to call this the major driver. Studios have been shutting down for 18+ months. Ubisoft stock is at a ~15 year low as are most big publishers. Many big titles fell flat in 2025 (and there were some surprise wins too -- not all doom). Console sales fell off a cliff. Now hardware is impossibly expensive, putting Gen 6 in doubt. Lots of projects shuttered or delayed, and layoffs.
AI and gaming is an important topic, but this story is an oversimplification of what has been hitting the games industry for > 2 years .
The point is that stock-market guys thinks that the Google AI models alone is worth a 21% drop in share price between Thursday and Friday for Unity Technologies.
This is great, though every geek should visit this place in person. It gets better every year. Especially on the days where they demo the giant IBM 1401.
My buddy took me on a Silicon Valley tour when I lived there , we hit up the HP Garage, Apple Garage, Intel Museum & the Computer History Museum in one day.
I mostly agree, but Windows XP was probably peak windows (Win 2k is my personal favorite)
Windows 95 was a terrible operating system in the classic sense ( phony multi-tasking, no memory protection, no security protections whatsoever -- any process could ready any file or any piece of memory it wanted).
Nearly all of the complaints about AI , Ads and Search in Windows are easily bypassed with a few settings (look up Debloat or run the settings manually).
There are quality issues, some severe, but no worse than iOS or MacOS. Honestly Windows 11 performance on my $300 mini PC exceeds latest iOS on my $1400 iPhone 17 pro.
Instead of shaming Microsoft, we should all be a bit more introspective about performance, latency , quality control and the overall decline in software.
1gb memory for a browser tab is more shameful than a Copilot button on the taskbar
I prefer shaming all guilty parties. Microslop for their declining OS, software quality and pushing AI, Apple for their Ass design, Google for their declining search and closing of the Android ecosystem, and lots of web developers for using way too much JS.
no matter the industry, quality control isn't a tool. you can find tools to produce content and to help test for quality, but the ultimate bar for quality is depends on team members.
The issue is that despite code assists (pre and post AI ) helping to produce more testable product, the bar for quality acceptance continues to decline.
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