I tend to put a lot more focus on principles like continuous improvement than any particular #agile practice, but I wonder how much better things would be if most teams just found a way to work incrementally and iteratively.
I see lots of teams sprint towards big projects, which I don't really count as "incremental."
Though more critically, I rarely see teams do anything resembling iterative development. Teams are always overburdened and pressured to start working on the next thing.
Being able to use AI has made learning and customizing #emacs more approachable.
I can describe the workflows I want and get something working quickly.
This org-capture template lets me capture blog post ideas to a specific file. But sometimes I want to add a new idea to a post. So I can also refile from the capture window and get a list of all Level 1 headings matching my TODO keywords from that file.
The number of applications people are making and sharing on Reddit is crazy high. Some people are trying to make some money, some are just sharing to share.
There's a lot of novelty around this now because it's new, and people weren't able to create so much so easily before. I think that as the trend continues, apps will become more of a commodity.
It won't be "I built an app to do X," it will just be problem-solving.
How good a problem solver are you? Show me your apps.
I really can't stand it anymore that most social networking platforms are littered with fake and staged content.
My hunch is that the issue is driven by users trying to monetize, which, in turn, is driven by platforms trying to maximize attention to boost advertising metrics.
Twitter and LinkedIn, especially, are littered with this attention-grabbing bait.
Started watching this today. It fits nicely into my watch habits of lighthouse keepers, both new and old: Fred Dibnah's Engineering Greatness: Britain's Industrial Legacy
Four years ago, I heavily used whiteboarding tools and created dozens of custom boards to support the goals we were trying to achieve in meetings or workshops. I made dozens of custom templates and canvases.
But these days, my first instinct is to take the flow I have in mind and use AI to generate a custom app.
Whiteboard canvases always needed a lot of explanation and guidance, and people always struggled using whiteboard apps. Today, it's easier just to make a single-use, throw-away app.
It's difficult getting YouTube to stop showing me videos of people making a stupid face.
After working for the last month on https://teamflowmapping.com/ and having bad luck with unsuccessful job interviews, I decided to revisit Satisfactory.
The goal this time for my 4th playthrough is to make a main bus factory, where every item in the game feeds down the middle of the map in a straight line.
A before-and-after comparison of the Chart view design changes I made on https://teamflowmapping.com/
The goal was to give things more weight and contrast.
I saw a Reddit post about how someone made a plugin to pull their Jira tasks into Vim. It made me realize that it's always nice to have an information-dense view of all your tasks.
Does anybody want to test out the app I've been working on over the past month?
I'm looking for feedback.
@AccordionGuy They still make calculators??
I was just browsing reddit and came across https://typst.app/.
It seems like a pretty cool. If I'm understanding it correctly, you write markup and turn it into a plethora of outputs including reports, articles, newsletters, slides, etc..
I've had some weird situations with AI coding.
One time, prompting "This isn't working. Just delete all your changes." fixed the issue completely.
Another time, I gave up and reverted to a previous commit from two days ago -- The system started working the way I wanted, with instantaneous performance.
Every time I get really into alternate keyboard layouts and efficiency, I always orbit around the idea of learning stenography and getting a steno board.
- Using AI to create the core of my app, not a problem.
- Setting up a local dev environment took a bit of time to figure out (different config files to adjust and dealing with keys)
- Doing permissions and workspace management, CRUD, pretty good.
- Setting up local, staging and production environments, pretty smooth.
- Tests were a pain, lots of manual fine-tuning.
The most overwhelming part of it all is figuring out how to integrate Stripe for accepting payments.
There was a hugely popular Mac productivity app I loved using, but it was abandoned in 2011.
I think my next non-trivial AI coding project will be to recreate this and bring it back from the dead as a command-line application.
I've been using alt-keyboard layouts since before 2010.
It's only in the last year, though, that I realized there was a whole community around the topic.
If that sounds interesting to you, I think this is probably the best place to start: https://getreuer.info/posts/keyboards/alt-layouts/index.html
Oh, and since a lot of the focus is on handoffs, I can show which tasks have handoff (using the little two-arrow icon) relationships so they get special attention.