droctothorpe

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by droctothorpe 4mo ago
Love the manifesto. It perfectly describes the approach I adhere to and have encouraged many other engineers to adopt. Better to ask for forgiveness than permission. Open source means distributed maintenance. Many hands make light work.
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Agentic development environment extension taxonomy(droctothorpe.github.io)
1 points by droctothorpe 6mo ago|1 comments
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by droctothorpe 6mo ago
There has been a proliferation of agentic development environment extensions from competing vendors. As a result, the market has profoundly inconsistent nomenclature and standards that make the domain space seem unnecessarily complex. This
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deck2video: Generate LLM-narrated presentations from Markdown(github.com)
1 points by droctothorpe 7mo ago|1 comments
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by droctothorpe 7mo ago
My galaxy-brained coworker ( https://github.com/pjdoland ) built this magnificent project. Figured the hive mind would appreciate it. Enjoy!
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by droctothorpe 2y ago
Gorgeous! How do the worklouder pures compare to the stock keycaps?
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by droctothorpe 4y ago
I tech fast for 25 hours a week. No computer, no cell phone, no television, etc. It's amazing how much this sustains my motivation and enthusiasm. You can "switch" right now, at least 1/7th of the time. Not exactly what
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by droctothorpe 4y ago
I send my parents $500 a month with Venmo. Really ought to send more.
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by droctothorpe 4y ago
What an emotional roller coaster!
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by droctothorpe 4y ago
Thanks for sharing these examples. I feel like stories like this, collectively, could constitute an interesting book.
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by droctothorpe 4y ago
The fact that Stigler's Law adheres to Stigler's Law is hilarious. Thanks for sharing!
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In Obscurity(droctothorpe.github.io)
86 points by droctothorpe 4y ago|31 comments
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A Tale Unto Lions(droctothorpe.github.io)
2 points by droctothorpe 5y ago|0 comments
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by droctothorpe 5y ago
I call it RDD: Rage Driven Development.
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by droctothorpe 5y ago
Exactly!
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by droctothorpe 5y ago
This is an awesome feature request. Thank you!
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by droctothorpe 5y ago
Not to mention, depending on the size of the company / org, all hands meetings can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars.
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Show HN: An app that helps engineers fight back against pointless meetings(github.com)
162 points by droctothorpe 5y ago|142 comments
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Clockwise: a meeting cost calculator designed to encourage efficient meetings(github.com)
10 points by droctothorpe 5y ago|2 comments
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by droctothorpe 5y ago
Hello HN, I hope you enjoy this side project I've been working on. The target audience is disgruntled engineers who get pulled into lengthy, meandering, oftentimes unnecessary meetings, and wish they had more distraction-free IC time.
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I turned GME's closing prices over the last year into “music”(soundcloud.com)
2 points by droctothorpe 5y ago|1 comments
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by droctothorpe 5y ago
Shout out to https://github.com/datavized/twotone for making this possible.
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by droctothorpe 6y ago
This. This is why I read hacker news. As someone who interacts with your code on a daily basis and whose livelihood was catapulted due to said familiarity, thank you!
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by droctothorpe 6y ago
I really appreciate the nuanced analysis! Thanks for the input!
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Unconscious Algorithms(droctothorpe.github.io)
14 points by droctothorpe 6y ago|4 comments
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by droctothorpe 6y ago
This is a great idea. FFMPEG is as arcane as it is amazing. This should have been written in a compiled language, however.
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by droctothorpe 6y ago
> Another example could be switching to a career at 30 years old when you do not have the required social skills. You are better off focussing your efforts on a career that you will thrive in as an introvert while at the same time giving