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> The case for writing and coding manually

I share much of the same ideas about this as the author.

For a long time, to make coding more natural (before and after LLMs) and not having to think about certain keywords or syntax, I would create little Anki decks (10-20 cards) with basic exercises for a particular language or tool I was using. One to two weeks of 5-10 minutes/day of doing these exercises (like, how to redirect both stout and strrr into a file, how to read from a channel in go, etc) and I was working without having to pause.

Writing code became less disruptive and much easier to get my ideas into a text editor.

I’m also the creator of typequicker.com (disclaimer) and we added Code mode as a typing exercise.

At first I thought folks wouldn’t be interested. I was pleasantly surprised though; many people are using it specifically for the same reason that the author is talking about.

That’s what I’m kind of looking for. Something that shows more advanced features.

I feel like most of these tutorial like apps just scratch the surface and are more beginner focused.

I actually opened this hoping it’ an alternative to vimtutor but for experienced/intermediate users.

Is there such a thing? I feel like someone has probably made something this - something that progressively works through soem of the more complex features of vim.

I’ve found soem absolute gems mostly through online blogs and reading through vim docs

If anyone has any repos that’d recommended I’d be happy to try!

Thank you - appreciate it! :)

> btw do some tech twitter promos.

Yes - I have plans to do. Still relatively new to the marketing, SEO, etc world. Recently quit my job to build products (TypeQuicker is the first in line) and up until now I've only ever done software dev work.

How would you suggest to do twitter promos - just post consistently about the app features and such?

Nice idea for podcast - good luck!

> said that 4 of the 35 or so kids at the camp left because they couldn’t be away from their devices.

Wow that’s scary. Such powerful addiction at such a young age

I’m curious as well.

I’ve been exploring this space for a potential project - curious to see what these startups are doing

Gotcha - thanks for mentioning this though.

I’ve been meaning to make some changes to the default text in the practice mode so this bumps it up on my todo list.

Thank you!

Thank you! :)

Yes!! I have this on my todo list (along with many other features I've always wanted) actually!

Same!

So relieved Claude Code and Aider exist now - I almost bought into the Cursor hype