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Time-lapse video of Bethany's maniac week of coding

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Re: Time-lapse video of Bethany's maniac week of coding

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Post by benjaminwootton »

bsoule wrote: post #27
jacquesm wrote: post #26

I'm so terribly jealous of people able to read small fonts. Now that I can finally afford large screen monitors my eyes are so messed up that I need to set the font to 'huge' in order to be able to read (and that's with glasses, 2.5). What a super way to promote beeminder.com, and a very nice idea for a project.

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

What tools are you using there? Is that mainly TMUX?

I also have a 30" monitor but haven't tried one huuuuge window for my dev workflow. How does that work for you?

(On my phone so might be easier to see on a bigger screen)

Re: Time-lapse video of Bethany's maniac week of coding

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Post by bsoule »

Permit wrote: post #29

I think I would like to try this. Seeing it done twice has really got me interested in this. I think the key is that you're held accountable for how you spend your time due to the screenshots. Reminds me of how a guy hired someone to slap him when he got off topic while working: http://hackthesystem.com/blog/why-i-hired-a-girl-on-craigsli... I don't have a Mac, so I guess I'll have to build the screenshot/webcam stuf…

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

Re: Time-lapse video of Bethany's maniac week of coding

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Post by bsoule »

benjaminwootton wrote: post #31
bsoule wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

What tools are you using there? Is that mainly TMUX? I also have a 30" monitor but haven't tried one huuuuge window for my dev workflow. How does that work for you? (On my phone so might be easier to see on a bigger screen)

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.

Re: Time-lapse video of Bethany's maniac week of coding

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Post by dreeves »

Permit wrote: post #29

I think I would like to try this. Seeing it done twice has really got me interested in this. I think the key is that you're held accountable for how you spend your time due to the screenshots. Reminds me of how a guy hired someone to slap him when he got off topic while working: http://hackthesystem.com/blog/why-i-hired-a-girl-on-craigsli... I don't have a Mac, so I guess I'll have to build the screenshot/webcam stuf…

Or, of course, Beeminder itself! (But, yes, we love the "craigslist slapper guy", as many people seem to know him. That's in fact Maneesh Sethi, who's launching a Beeminder competitor, http://pavlok.com )

Re: Time-lapse video of Bethany's maniac week of coding

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Post by dreeves »

kmtrowbr wrote: post #30

Congrats Bethany! I am a long time Beeminder user. You guys work hard. I think your tool is amazing, although, I have my ups and downs with it. :) Very proud of you! Keep it up! I owe you a long email with thoughtful feedback.

Thanks so much for saying so, Kevin! And we'll be hugely grateful for feedback, especially insights on the downs you mention (be really blunt! it's good for us!). And of course you should either beemind that long email or send things piecemeal as you think of them...

Re: Time-lapse video of Bethany's maniac week of coding

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Post by dreeves »

lnkmails wrote: post #24

Can we look at the 67 commits and review them?

Eventually! We're working (very gradually -- http://beeminder.com/d/boss) on open-sourcing Beeminder. In fact, doing so is also inspired by Nick Winter and CodeCombat: http://blog.codecombat.com/we-have-open-sourced-everything

Re: Time-lapse video of Bethany's maniac week of coding

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Post by dreeves »

dreeves wrote: post #37
dreeves wrote: post #3

Ok, this is too epic to keep putting off! I'm hereby precommitting to a maniac weekend starting tomorrow! I'll reply here with a link to the time-lapse on Monday...

As promised, MANIAC WEEKEND: http://youtu.be/VwOCXRp1zn4

Oops, that one got blocked for copyright (I set it to Blitzkrieg Bop). Let's try this one: http://youtu.be/giBIJW-2hro
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