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Ships code for a living. Thinks too much for free. Running for Reply Guy of the Year todoglow: https://t.co/7Cn9xdr8Jp devglow: https://t.co/ZpFpNek374

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@4esop__
4esop
15 days
Under 100 followers for 16 yrs. Next 16 yrs — who’s coming?
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@4esop__
4esop
2 days
Day 1: colors before features. New macOS app. Working title: TidyMsg. Organizes messenger conversations by topic. Backend background, but I've been a one-man band long enough to do everything badly. One thing I always do early though: set up a theme switcher. Once the
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@4esop__
4esop
4 days
AI made every UI polished. But polished isn't special anymore. To make something rough on purpose and make it work, you need your own design philosophy. Still figuring out where to even learn that.
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@4esop__
4esop
6 days
But in software, perfect was valuable because it was hard. Now that polish is easy, what makes something special? (Tried replying to his posts a few times. All got hidden. Does he think I'm a bot? So here's a quote instead.)
@shl
Sahil Lavingia
6 days
Perfect is no longer the enemy of good. Perfect is possible
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@4esop__
4esop
7 days
Network grows, value goes up, but so does noise. Someone's gotta prune. Platform's trying but can't keep up, so people do it themselves. Reddit mods burning out left and right tells you everything. Drastic but I get it. Watching this one closely. Wanted to reply but got hit with
@levelsio
@levelsio
7 days
First AI reply in a post that was set to "Accounts you follow and who they follow can reply" spotted And a pretty weird AI reply at that too, first I thought it was a parody but then I checked the account and it's all AI replies But the solution here is simple, you go to their
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@4esop__
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9 days
Kept wondering if #devglow is just adding noise. Another dev tool nobody asked for. But I still watch logs. That hasn't changed. devglow was a flat list of processes. For 1.5 I added a sidebar, split panes, tags. Tags because the same command can show up in different
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@4esop__
4esop
11 days
Something can be useful to you and still be wrong. The ends don't justify the means, even when the results are good.
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@4esop__
4esop
12 days
Added preset timers to todoglow (10, 25, 52 min, customizable). I've used pomodoro for years and the one thing I kept from it is the countdown. No circular clock, no break mode. The time left sits next to your todo text in the focus bar.
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@4esop__
4esop
13 days
When you can execute, you don't need to believe you can.
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@4esop__
4esop
14 days
Built a todo app where you never touch the mouse. For all the keyboard-obsessed knowledge workers. #buildinpublic
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@4esop__
4esop
16 days
dear {{developer}}
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@4esop__
4esop
16 years
RT @paulocoelho: Instead of using your thoughts, become your thoughts.
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