Reinventing the plan file!
I mostly do this too for personal stuff. Although on solo projects I have a neverending TODO.md I check in...
...and on multi-person projects I end up using github issues/projects and/or Forgejo's equivalent
Readit Newsegometry commented on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file al3rez.com/todo-txt-journ... · Posted by u/al3rez
egometry commented on Young graduates are facing an employment crisis wsj.com/economy/jobs/jobs... · Posted by u/bdev12345
Even so, computer science is still among the fields with the lowest reported underemployment rate. It's essentially tied for second place, after nursing, with a much higher salary.
I wonder how to reconcile those stats with the stories I hear about the CS job market.
Well, these numbers _are_ from 2023. Things seem to have shifted (especially for the new grads) in the past 2 years...
(We'll know when new numbers come out of the feeling is correct?)
egometry commented on Writing toy software is a joy blog.jsbarretto.com/post/... · Posted by u/bundie
I recently wrote my own invoicing application. I got wrapped up in the joy of adding the features I wanted. Many of these features come at a premium monthly fee for a big named product.
I needed to get an invoice out in a timely fashion. As much as I wanted to use my app, I found certain kinks I needed to work out (with styling, adding addresses, etc.) -- This was where I realized what you have articulated.
At some point, it becomes better to prioritize the "fun" in working on my bike, and the "usefulness" of the daily driver bike.
In doing so, perhaps the fun/usefulness of each converges over time.
Andy Schatz, the independent game creator of Monaco, said something at a GDC talk that really resonated with me along these lines
I'm paraphrasing but -
"Do the hard work that you need to do, but always give yourself an hour a day for the bullshit 'i don't have time for this but I want to do it' stuff.
It'll keep you happy, which will keep you productive through the slog... and those little touches will stand out and make SOME people happy"
For the unfamiliar (the man, not the talk): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Schatz
egometry commented on I built a pixel art editor after playing Octopath Traveler II · Posted by u/Kobayashiii
Shoutout to the legendary Deluxe Paint III. I worked with people who, 30 years after the release, still kept an old computer running just to be able to use Dpaint II and III. They said it was the best pixel editor ever made.
DP2e is one of the reasons I still use DOSBox
it's just an img tag with an image that is updated a few times per minute, guessing it's a screenshot of some sensor terminal at cern? :D
Probably not
Many old monitoring programs just literally generated graphs like these using input data and outputted a static image on a cron/tick. "Expensive" once, then cached... in the form of the image
I'm guessing this is that sort of tech
> including CI pipeline
You'll want to be cautious, because readme and promises are not software; they're attempting to squat on[1] nektos/act[2] which itself is the 20/80 of GitHub Actions
You'll almost certainly be happier using woodpecker[3] or some other "external" CI system so you don't have to hopes-and-prayers your CI system
1: https://code.forgejo.org/forgejo/act
2: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/tag/v10.0.3/go.mod#... and https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/tag/v10.0.3/go.mod#...
3: https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker (Apache 2)
what do you mean by "squat on"?
egometry commented on The Candid Naivety of Geeks ploum.net/2025-03-28-geek... · Posted by u/SlackingOff123
As a tech employee who has worked on software privacy controls for consumer devices at amazon I have a couple thoughts. First, let me clarify that I am still highly skeptical about any tech companies privacy promises. That being said, the privacy control I worked on for one of Amazon's devices was a pita. It was a hardware switch which completely powered down all sensors, and modifying code related to it required extensive testing to preserve customer privacy. Amazon at least emphasizes to employees earning and retaining customer trust. The real reason I actually semi trust tech companies privacy policies is the ethics of individual employees. Maybe I'm projecting my disgust at privacy infringements onto my coworkers, but I generally believe these large corps can't hire sufficient teams of devs to build privacy compromising systems without at least one person whistleblowing.
My $.02
The ethics of individual employees only lasts until the next firing, unfortunately.
egometry commented on Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 simonwillison.net/2024/De... · Posted by u/simonw
I'm surprised at the description that it's "useless" as a programming / design partner. Even if it doesn't make "elegant" code (whatever that means), it's the difference between an app existing at all, or not.
I built and shipped a Swift app to the App Store, currently generating $10,200 in MRR, exclusively using LLMs.
I wouldn't describe myself as a programmer, and didn't plan to ever build an app, mostly because in the attempts I made, I'd get stuck and couldn't google my way out.
LLMs are the great un-stickers. For that reason per se, they are incredibly useful.
To the un-sticking point: it's also great at letting people ask questions without being perceived as dumb
Tragically - admitting ignorance, even with the desire to learn, often has negative social reprocussions
Adding this to my smallweb collection!
Blocked reddit a few days back. Been looking for more idle exploring like the old days while relaxing, instead of that endless algorithm trawl...
However, non-hierarchical structures are often open to manipulation and land-grabbing (see Tyranny of Structurelessness, etc.) so I am also skeptical that a company may have continued with this practice.
Was Pivotal Labs built with this in mind? A lot of their core principals seem to overlap with with seven principals prposed at the end (https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm for the curious)