Arkdy

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Graceful under pressure.

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Comment · 5 years ago
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What's your real name policy?

And there's probably a typo in your FAQ, "We do not allow sexual of adult content or any kind."

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_why was a good teacher. The guide was a gem because it helped show how deeply you could love programming <3
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm so excited for this ^_^

I was just thinking that what we really want when we say "no-code" is the ability to think in terms of domain specific data structures instead of programming constructs.

Comment · 6 years ago
# Model of Small Decisions ## Re: Try to avoid multitasking As a fullstack developer I find this particularly apt. I'm most productive when I deliberately focus on one part of the stack at a time (think days, not hours) and I rely heavily on the notes that I take to provide context.

## Re: Remembering effective rules When I'm documenting, often I'm in the mindset of, "I solved this problem today, and writing it down ensures that I won't have to re-solve it next month"

## Re: Minimizing decisions My most productive days revolve around making decisions up-front, ie planning out the steps of a project in a Kanban or bullet journal at a granularity of 30 min chunks (~15 min expected time, 15 min slack)

# Possibly Related Work ## Readme Driven Development https://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-deve... The idea is to write your readme before you start coding. Just enough upfront planning to imagine what the system will be, discuss with team, and make changes, while delaying making all the small decisions that are needed to actually bring it to life.

I think that RDD is an admission that small decisions exist, so we should try to make the best big decisions that we can up-front while the cost of change is lowest. Each of the small decisions that you make in coding adds friction to change.

## Basecamp Hill metaphor https://basecamp.com/features/hill-charts "The idea: work is like a hill Every piece of work has two phases. First there’s an uphill phase where you figure out your approach. You have a basic idea about the task, but you haven’t figured out what the solution is going to look like or how to solve all the unknowns.

Eventually you reach a point where there aren’t any more unsolved problems. That’s like standing at the top of the hill. You can see clearly all the way down the other side. Then the downhill phase is just about execution."

This too I feel is an admission that small decisions exist. It's an understanding that even when you have a plan, projects go through a phase in the beginning where there's a concentration of decisions that need to be made, and each of those decisions introduce some measure of uncertainty.

Comment · 6 years ago
Wave ( https://www.waveapps.com/ ) has an extensive free tier for accounting and invoicing because they monetize through optional payroll and payment processing.

I found the smartphone app handy before the lockdowns, and I especially like how they handle emailing clients.

Comment · 6 years ago
If you think that the JVM is icky, GraalVM may satisfy some of your concerns.

Just getting access to Clojure on Windows through a single graal executable saved me some heartache this week, and I can't wait to start packaging apps with it.

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Starting my projects from every-layout instead of using foundation/bootstrap has been like the move away from jQuery as js developed.
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I considered using https://pijul.org/ as an alternative to git, but Github is already so handy, popular and integrated that it's hard to justify switching. Does anyone think that they will ever abstract the platform from the specific git vcs?

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