Great reminder of how it felt to have only a surface understanding of an app:

they don’t internalize a computer/app as a generalized system with common UI conventions and frameworks and reusable elements that always behave predictably in different contexts, etc, etc. They interact with these things through a set of memorized steps that gets them to the thing they want to do.

I think even many programmers can relate to using one specific app this way: git! Yeah, yeah, it’s possible to understand git properly (one of the good things of a previous day job I had was that I learned that, and have started heading down that road at least somewhat, because it made git fun instead of a source of dread) but we’ve all heard the memes of how people just memorize a set of steps with git. I was even using shell scripts and many of those scripts I still use. Just basically “make a save point here please” like a video game.

Now can I finally get a li’l less grief for using an editor from the 1970s? 🤷🏻‍♀️

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