If it’s something in the code, that’s where I use comments. It’s the only place people have a chance of seeing it. Even when I add these comments some people ask me about the code instead of reading them. This isn’t just for others, I forget as well. Something to the effect of…

# This previously used ${old-solution}, but has moved to ${new-solution} because ${reason}

Or

# This is ugly and doesn’t make sense, but ${clean-logocal-way} doesn’t work due to ${reason}. If you change ${x} it will break.

Or

# This was a requirement from ${person} on ${date}. We want to remove this, but will need to wait until ${person} no longer needs it or leaves the company.

My guess is someone just found it. When I was moving to macOS for my work laptop, I was looking for something to replace AutoHotKey. It took me a long time and a lot of digging to actually find HammerSpoon.

I’m going to get an electricity bill each month no matter what. I won’t notice a few bulbs being on for a couple extra hours each day.

I would notice having to go out and buy candles all the time, or needing to make them. A candle can be consumed over the course of a day or maybe even a few hours. A light bulb can last months or years.

If light bulbs burned out as fast as candles burn, I would be a fanatic about keeping the lights off and only use them when absolutely necessary.

I first learned this from Lisa Simpson.

https://youtu.be/pmRtY_vvW1U

Do you not have to be online at a certain time when remote?

I’ve been remote for 6 years now, and did it on and off for a while before that. I’m still woken up by an alarm clock, because I can’t get myself to go to bed at a reasonable time, but have to be online for meetings and stuff and 9am… I think many would prefer 8am, but that’s just a symptom of a broken meeting culture.