SimplGy

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Comment · 1 month ago
What about “terry”? (His-terry”
Comment · 2 years ago
Daily Obsidian user here. I often need to do a bit of math or adding numbers in a column, and could be the target market for this, but I'm not sure yet.

I am confused about using Excel as a metaphor, and calling things "cells" -- Excel is all about cells and tables, but actually this is just "assigning variables and doing a bit of math inside of :: these blocks :: like a templating language.

Suggestion: just explain it like that to people?

As a feature request, I often have a list of values (in a column) and want to sum them. It'd be nice if I could write it and have it print the sum in the view/wysiwym mode. Eg:

:: 10,000 20,000 5,000 = total_expenses ::

(maybe it could ignore commas too :) )

Cool work, love seeing things in the markdown space!

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Very happy to be with hubitat. It’s OSS and not user friendly, but it mostly works with most devices and once it’s running I don’t have to maintain it except to restart (twice in about 3 years)

I also like that if I did want functionality enough (Eg: graph of temperature) I could probably figure out how to write a plugin.

Comment · 3 years ago
Testing User Interface code sucks. I hate it. It's difficult and fragile. You probably agree so far. Controversially; I also think UI testing is low value and the answer is to be pretty decisive about cutting it.
Comment · 3 years ago
Probably happens to all of us, especially the kind of folks that read Hacker News, I just wanted to think about it, and thank them.
Comment · 3 years ago
I find I keep coming back to this as a framework for thinking about product decisions.
Comment · 3 years ago
I wrote a post about this, because I think it surprises my engineering colleagues.

But I think objectively, it's a better quality of life per dollar than anything else available in the area.

Comment · 4 years ago
The distraction free workflow with timer motivation is a really killer feature. I wonder if you could handle the longer term PKM / organize / retrieve kinds of use cases by integrating really nicely with tools that focus on that, like Obsidian?
Comment · 4 years ago
Respectfully, might need to rename it if you’re going for broad adoption.

Just imagine speaking the name of your product to a family member who asks what you’re working on, or the cashier at the grocery store asks what your startup is.

I know you don’t know me and it’s none of my business. I just thought better to rebrand sooner than later. Maybe ask someone you trust wrt marketing kinds of questions?

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