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Scaling a Monolith to 1M LOC: 113 Pragmatic Lessons(semicolonandsons.com)
1 points by semicolonandson 6mo ago|0 comments
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Why I Switched to Zed after 15 years of Vim [video](youtube.com)
3 points by semicolonandson 1y ago|0 comments
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Vim A-Z: A Text Object for Every Letter in the Alphabet [video](youtube.com)
1 points by semicolonandson 4y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How to help an engineering team come to a consensus on best practices?
8 points by semicolonandson 5y ago|9 comments
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by semicolonandson 5y ago
Vim has weapons-grade go to definition today using language server protocol, so multiple files is a non-issue for users running LSP.
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
I run an online marketplace selling digital study notes and taking a commission. It's provided most of my income for the past 10 years, often exceeding a developer's salary. I've got a YouTube video where I talk about the MVP
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
Best place to start is the Get Your First 1000 Users playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpkoC9yJXDKlGz7SPwofn...
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
My personal strategies are - investing in group hobbies that remain doable later in life (e.g. My granny in her 80s can't play piano anymore due to arthritis, but still sings in 3 choirs) - making it a yearly goal to make a new friend
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
Like video content? I'm a programmer/marketer with a YouTube channel teaching the SEO, copywriting, and marketing techniques I used to earn a cumulative 7 figures with my Rails app (2—sided marketplace for college notes). https:&
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
I give each of these big ideas a folder on my computer and then fill that folder with markdown documents and think aloud via writing. The core idea is that I don't want to lose the momentum of my thoughts. Maybe that might be helpful f
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
You specifically mentioned marketing/growth hacks etc. I'm a programmer who bootstrapped a site 10 years ago and it's supported me since as an indie hacker. In order to learn about marketing, I held a monthly closed-doors gro
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Janki Method – Using SRS to Improve Programming (2011)(jackkinsella.ie)
7 points by semicolonandson 6y ago|1 comments
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How to Learn to Code with SRS and Anki [video](youtube.com)
1 points by semicolonandson 6y ago|0 comments
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
I was so disappointed when Gary stopped filming these videos that I started making my own screencasts in that style (non-beginner concepts, fast-paced, language agnostic, and terminal-first). They are on my site here: https://www
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
There's a ton of useful ideas in Luke Prog's "How to Be Happy" post over on LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZbgCx2ntD5eu8Cno9/how-to-be-...
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
For those reading this thread whose products or ambitions are more along the "indie hacker"/bootstrapper lines, I've got a bunch of screencasts talking about my experiences over a 10 year period building and living compl
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
It might be worthwhile to figure out what brings you joy by randomly asking yourself how you are feeling from 1 to 10 throughout the day. You might be surprised, in that your joy rating in the moment may deviate heavily from what you predic
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
I just have a git repo and bunch of markdown files put into folders that correspond to tags. A few people have asked me about it so I already started recording a video about it for YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel&#x
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
I know this question is probably intended as a technical one, but from a pragmatic/empirical perspective, the number one use-case of the blockchain is to raise money in a way that side-steps traditional causes of friction (e.g. financi
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
As someone who is now over a decade into their programming career, today I find more value in doing analytical breakdowns of my various success and mistakes. What were my oversights on a project? How could I have communicated better? What m
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
I went rather deep into ankification of computer science - 5500 cards deep. I've written up my experiences as a series of articles here for anyone interested https://www.jackkinsella.ie/articles/janki-method
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
For me (neck and upper back pain) the trick is not so much the model of the chair but the presence of neck and head support. One of the standard Ikea models (Markus I believe) offers that and gives me essentially pain-free computing where t
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
The Google Keyword Planner gives you an estimate of traffic for a given keyword, which is a proxy for interest.
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
1. A book holder. I noticed I got back pain from studying in recent years. This was entirely attributable to my neck position and buying a book holder stopped this. This, in turn, decreases the resistance to keeping a regular study routine.
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
Web developer's love of programming is what wins them (potentially) fantastic salaries in regular work; it's also what cripples their attempts to diversify their income. Time and time again, I see programmer friends investing 6+ m
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How to Be Happy (2011)(lesswrong.com)
2 points by semicolonandson 6y ago|0 comments
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
I've founded and been running an independent software product for 10+ years and have lately recorded about 25 screencasts on lessons learned. Watch them at Semicolon&Sons https://www.semicolonandsons.com/ Topics in
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
Creating screencasts about advanced programming has been my mission since discovering and falling in love with the (no-longer-active) Destroy All Software series. On my channel (Semicolon&Sons), the focus is on: - concepts with a tech s
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
Well that was an unexpected compliment — thanks to a bug in the algorithm I got 11.2.
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On Writing Software (well?) – DHH [video](youtube.com)
1 points by semicolonandson 6y ago|0 comments

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