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I'm commenting on Hacker News, and I believe that getting access to a community of engineers, programmers, whatever, successful people, has been a net positive for me. So many good…

I'm almost always on perplexity now, it has supplanted Google search. Curious what you're using chat GPT on and not perplexity? I feel that its free tier offers more than ChatGPT. …

> And then run an Ansible script which installs a series of Brew items (ansible has a brew module) along with other stuff not on brew. Yes, this is what I have right now. I have it…

Awesome, I think this is kind of what I am going for re: the goodies. I am a tmux guy as well but will try them out. I'm leaning towards Ansible as I wanted to learn it this year f…

Hey, thanks - I don't think it's a good idea to time machine my personal laptop to my new work laptop. And definitely I would try to follow the guides if the company has them. > I …

Looking for ideas here! New machine will be on OS X. I am currently playing around with Ansible and for now I am able to set up much of the non-dev applications + `pnpm`, `ruby`, `…

Great comment and blog post man. I think you crystallised what I've been wondering, why do some business or self-improvement books feel they could have been a tweet like you said.

Just to add. I suggest journaling and keeping track of things. Like even 10 to 15 minutes per say of how the day went, what you felt. This is a cure but also a prevention thing. Me…

Yes, I agree, and it really is a feature (flaw?) of human psychology. As much as I want to say that I want to make sure that I research something before doing or buying it, more of…

Just a constraint so I force myself to do this, I'm barely pushing through day 6 hehe. Then I can go back next month and redo all the articles, hehe.

Hi folks, what's your blogging workflow? I'm thinking tools (Jekyll, Gatsby, Wordpress), deployment (gh-pages, Netlify, AWS?), commenting (Disqus/own?), feedback forms (Formspree?)…

This sounds cool. Was it really helpful? What do they teach in comedy class?

I just spoke at a dev conference for the first time last weekend. Here's what I found, in addition to randomly checking out Youtube videos: - https://speaking.io/ - https://www.plu…

Thank you! Those are all helpful tips. Yup, I have sort of a script written. Instead of "you know", I'll just try pausing. I might actually reference this thread in the presentatio…

I've prepared a bunch, but anyone have any tips/experiences/what to expect? I'll be talking about things I've learned to get better as a developer (junior -> intermediate).

Nice. I've read a bunch of books and I'm also looking to make something like this. Just a question: I'm not an American, how does copyright work for things like this? Can I write s…

Hi all. I've been reading and applying a bunch of stuff from personal development/self-improvement lately. Honestly, at first I thought it was lame but I've gotten real productive …

Hello, thank you for replying! That's so great to hear. Yes, I have other interests (hiking, cycling, travelling, recently writing/journaling). They don't pay the bills though, heh…

I'm looking to hear stories from old (completely subjective and I hope not an impolitically correct term, I'm not from the US) programmers/hackers. Did you transition out of progra…

So for the past few years, I've done some deployment/setting up my servers on AWS, but I feel like I'm just really doing the basic things.(setting up a VPC, spinning up servers etc…

Just recently discovered meditation and fasting, and while I've only been doing them for a few weeks, they've had a big effect on me. I'd like to see what other helpful routines ar…

She's one of my favorite speakers! I actually took down notes of 2 of her conference talks. https://github.com/daryllxd/every_ruby_talk_ever/blob/master... . I watched that specifi…

Christ, that's right. "Without publishing, it is impossible to write blog posts." I should just keep on publishing because (this is just my thought process right now, not so sure a…

I completely agree with this. Whatever's most familiar for you, but hopefully, it should be familiar for other people too. Try to write it in a way that you can switch out parts if…

Hi guys, how do you get better at writing?(General/tactical advice welcome.) In the past few months, I've written a lot of drafts, but it's so hard to publish posts. I just can't g…