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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 mat…

Maniac on building maniac tools! I guess it's kind of Catch-22 isn't it :P

Thank you!! My eyes are not great -- it was a 30" monitor.

It's iTerm2: http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/home

I'm pretty sure that's Strunk and White approved,yo.

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-lo…

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 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 wai…

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 t…

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 m…

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 ch…

Also, we just implemented this slightly over a month ago, so no numbers yet on how it is working out.

Http://Beeminder.com takes it a step further and takes your lunch money too if you give up...

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 o…

I'm the Bee in Beeminder. I think that beeminding your github account is going to be amazing for hackers/founders -- a way to force yourself to always be making forward momentum. W…

by popular demand: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/50476194/bee_push_01.mov

Ooh! One use we didn't describe in the post is TallyBee -- I added Beeminder integration to a super simple android tally app (it increments a counter every time you touch the scree…

nerd attempt at social skills. you don't maximize toothpaste usage with friends!

you use the "makeitso" button under the graph to change your rate.

Gmail is a bit inconsistent about that by default: it shows you the number of individual unread messages, and then the total number of threads , so you can't use subtraction to get…

The problem with leaving things in my inbox is that if I don't deal with it immediately, it quickly disappears in the stream of incoming stuff. So in theory I could "just develop t…

Paul Graham has written a couple things related to the subject of akrasia, namely the acceleration of addictiveness: http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html and disconnecting dist…

This is similar to how stores of the same type cluster together. But the sushi analogy may not map to web services, because with sushi you might explicitly seek variety. With a web…