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Copy of an email update from mailing list: weirdfriends Hello gang, I spent my 2 days off basically just coding. The wife isn’t the happiest about it, but: WE’VE GOT SOME COOL NEW THINGS! 🤩 Fancy New Corrections & Points 🔧 I changed up the agent architecture and now have a dedicated (and fancier 💅) model/prompt for better corrections of your messages. There’s now a…
7 months, 221 commits, and I still haven’t told anyone to try my app. A reflection on what went wrong.
Happened to check my analytics this week and saw this. Admittedly I don’t have much real traffic. I haven’t been writing much recently, but this irks me. And its super rude. Not only is all my traffic fake, but its actively stealing my personality and voice. Potentially even cataloging me across my virtual profile. Like this is nothing new on the internet, but this is kind of…
When you give me a PR to review, it should be complete and tested by YOU. You should be proud and ready for your work to be shipped right now. I’m just here to double check things. I should not be: the first set of HUMAN eyes to look at your AI slop making your code DRY/maintainable because the AI didn’t cleaning up the style/formatting to fit with the rest of our codebase because the…
I’m optimizing my next product for: An eye popping headline (clicks) As much conversations with users as humanly possible (pmf) Extra credit: it’s launched in a community interested in the topic, so the release post doesn’t feel like an advertisement
I want to cover 2 things, before I get caught up in thought; My feelings releasing modergator today and getting no new users What to do next with modergator My feelings releasing a project and getting no users It sucks. And its basically the worst outcome. And its what I expected to happen. Our marketing plan was an after thought: Make a post on Reddit Make a post on indie hackers Make a post on…
You should use the chrome debugger if you do any frontend js/ts work. /thread console.log is dead. The debugger saves my ass every time. You don’t need to set up anything or even import it if your using Chrome. You just: Add debugger; anywhere in your code: (stick it behind an if if you like!) If you’re debugging on the fly, find your file in the sources tab and click “Add…
1. External validation for a new idea At the start of a project, I’m not sure if only I have the problem I want to solve. The more emails that join my wait list, the more excited people are about solving the problem. I try to be super straight up about who my product is for on the landing page. I also try to scope down the communicated project features as much as possible.
Today I built a wait list landing page for a new project of mine. I did it in around 2 hr 55 min. This is a PB for me. I could definitely have done it faster, but with the trade offs I wanted, I am quite happy. The Strategy Note: I’m not affiliated with the brands mentioned. 1. Audit current state of drag-and-drop website builders Time: 45 min | Cost: $0
Reviewing pull requests is a pain in the hole, but a necessary one. It is also massive time sync if you’re actually doing it right. Normal PR Process It often looks like this: Get slack message: “pwetty pwease review my PR :3 pr link ” Open in browser, scroll through the code a bit Inner Monologue: “ This looks mostly understandable? Can I can get away without pulling this locally? ” Decide…
Stopping and smelling the roses 🌹
I blog sometimes. I publish a good bit of music as well, and yet, no one knows me. This is fine. I happily mosey through life without internet celebrity, but candidly (and probably humanly), it would be nice to get recognition for the things that I make. So how does one get “discovered”? Youtube just recommended me this small linux youtuber , who struck me with a Jimmy Neutron style,…
I’m at a quietly frustrating point with my German language learning. It’s an uncomfortable expanse within A1-A2 levels where I pick up a myriad of words in a conversation, but I’m still not confident enough to say much. The usual solution here is one of brute force. Go make a fool of yourself, often and brazenly, in the wild. Talk to people around you, have awkward-as-hell…
My personal Berlin tourism list.
Scientists keep logbooks for their findings. Why don’t computer scientists? A great place to start doing this is for debugging. Debugging sucks enough as is, make it easier on yourself. A logbook will… 🗺 Enumerate where you are in the bug fix journey. You’ll forget this journey when you pick it up tomorrow, write it down. 🌳 Keep you rooted to the ground. (Creating an…
My collection of things I find on my journeys through the internet.
See the website you’re reading this on? I didn’t make this in 10 minutes…. But I sure could have if I had this tutorial. So here’s how you can make your own customizable resume website or blog for free in 2021 using the Hugo framework, a few commands in the terminal, Github Pages to host it. Skip to Part 1: Let’s make a website if you wanna skip my banter 😔 First off, Why Hugo ? I think it’s…
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