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I see this clearly at kids birthday parties whenever there is a piñata. Adults hate them. All they see is the goal and the incredibly inefficient path the kids are taking towards it. But the kids love it, they don’t care when they miss, they are just enjoying hitting something with a stick. And every miss heightens the excitement for the eventual lolly scramble.

I like highlighting only the language concepts:

Reserved words are red

Strings are green

Constants/numbers are blue

Types/meta-language are yellow

Anything else is white.

It’s not too colorful but still gives you plenty of anchors for your eyes.

Biased cause I work there, but that’s where software like Tactiq shines. We just added an MCP, and now the agent has access to the meetings when writing the plan.

Last week I had three meetings with three stakeholders, and the agent was able to gather everyone’s ideas and make sure they are all working together in the feature.

Tassie represent

I’ve never understood why linters don’t have this baked in. You want to deprecate a pattern, but marking it as an error and failing the build won’t work. So you mark it warning and fill everyone’s editors with yellow lines. And then we just get used to the noisy warnings.

Ratchet is such a good word for it.

Already done. There’s a link on the homepage to the GitHub, and you can just add a new markdown file in the rules folder. It auto deploys on merge to master.

I want search engines to operate similar to this. Instead of using googles monolithic index, you can subscribe to different trusted sources for lists of sites that are curated and maintained. Then your personal search engines queries them all at once.

I think if you could balance the incentives right it would put the onus on the curators to make sure that their indexes were full of high quality sites. And if one starts giving you rubbish, just remove their index from your search engine.

I think this speaks to how when learning a concept, just having it framed in the right way can really help.

I’d heard of the Ferber method before and we tried it a bit to no success. But just hearing the same idea framed as “the parent checking back in regular like a metronome”, rather than “the baby needs to learn to self settle” just clicked in my head.

Thanks for the tips, will keep trying this and see if it sorts out the late night wakes too.