bsoule
Joined 17 years ago
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Comment · 12 years ago
I'm terribly old-fashioned and use vim for development. My monolithic window is iTerm2 which allows for split panes. It is pretty nice with my laptop screen below for reference material.
Comment · 12 years ago
Maniac on building maniac tools! I guess it's kind of Catch-22 isn't it :P
Comment · 12 years ago
Thank you!! My eyes are not great -- it was a 30" monitor.
Comment · 12 years ago
It's iTerm2: http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/home
Comment · 12 years ago
I'm pretty sure that's Strunk and White approved,yo.
Comment · 12 years ago
I ended up spending an embarrassing amount of time on the post processing because I didn't spend enough time on setup ahead of time :)
I used https://github.com/nwinter/telepath-logger to take screenshots. I meant to have it take a screenshot of my top monitor only, and do anything sensitive on my laptop screen, but I didn't configure it correctly, and wound up with screenshots of my active window only, so I had to do some censoring, e.g. when I needed to edit our keys file, or when I blurred out the screenshot when I had to do some customer support.
Comment · 12 years ago
This was a ton of fun and I'd love to do it, or a modified shorter version of it again. It's hard to shut down the rest of my life for an entire week, but maybe a long weekend. Or I could do a week where the computer is taking screenshots 9-5 and I pre-commit to post the video as soon as it is over.
Comment · 13 years ago
I think you can still commit to one change per day, whether or not you deploy them in batches. It'd be exciting to see the growing list of stuff to look forward to, rather than wait in a void of information. Better for the team building it too. You could note in your changelog which ones are live and which are being alpha tested.
Comment · 13 years ago
Even if you personally don't need the commitment device because you never get discouraged and always do what you say you will do, I'm pretty sure that the signaling value of this to users is immense. Startups die a lot and it is super discouraging as a user when your new favorite thing goes away. Promise them you won't go away.
Comment · 13 years ago
But there's a slider!
Slightly more seriously: for us, the premium plans are directed more to the hardcore users who are already committed and love the service, so more choice is maybe less daunting?
Comment · 13 years ago
You actually have to have entered data on Beeminder in the last month to be considered active. If you haven't, we suppress the charge. So we just do that check every time before charging. Simply logging in isn't enough. And thanks everyone for the kind words about this!
Comment · 13 years ago
Also, we just implemented this slightly over a month ago, so no numbers yet on how it is working out.
Comment · 13 years ago
Http://Beeminder.com takes it a step further and takes your lunch money too if you give up...
Comment · 13 years ago
We've got an integration with Rescuetime as well so that you can mind productive or unproductive time. If weaseling on commits is an issue you could also just increase the number of commits you're committing to. Arms race between current you and future you!