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Don't worry, nobody but Colorado is ever going to try to, or even think to, fix this one.

> so there must be some market for it out there.

Not anymore, looks like.

At home? Not really, no.

At work? I've got ADHD, so the idea of making a to-do list is fine but keeping it up to date was a challenge. I've created a set of agentic skills that comes through the last 36 hours of emails, meetings, chats, and gathers up all the work I volunteered to do (or was told to do), triages them across urgency/impact, and sorts them into Do/Defer/Schedule/Delegate piles.

Last, I created an app to give a UI to this data to see and act on it all, including a way to flag a to-do that was found and enter why I thought the status or categorization was wrong. On the next run, a review skill reads those comments, makes changes to the other skills accordingly, and sends me an email with details of the changes, and the commit I can use to roll back the change if I'd like.

I've been running it since April and while there were a lot of updates at first, I haven't had to flag anything for review in months, and I get to feel a whole lot better about managing my to-do pile.

I'm looking at open-sourcing it, but since I created it with work resources on work time, I need to jump through a few hoops first.

I've gotten "Hi" with zero other context from people of all backgrounds.

As someone that has done a lot of that work, can confirm.

I remember! Lanyrd was fantastic as someone that did a ton of community speaking before I ever did anything on a bigger stage.

It's not a great defense if you ask me, unless they're counting on the judge not knowing the difference between owning a copy of something vs. the IP and license to sell the thing.

After all, Sony isn't selling the source code and IP for Resident Evil, they're selling a copy of the packaged software.

It's not as if he's stopped working on Windows since 2000.

When you can align hyperfocus with your most beneficial vector of productivity, it's like you can accomplish anything, in half the time thought possible.

Problem is, there is no good way to direct the hyperfocus demon. It likes what it likes, it wants what it wants, and that's that.

Medication helps to save a pile of willpower/spoons/executive function safely from the demon so that we can get things that need doing done.

Nothing new under the sun

This matches what I'm seeing.

Certificate expired over 100 days ago

> extremely unlikely

But never zero.

Adopting anything as blind dogma is Expert Beginner territory. See also: DB table normalization.

Weird to us, but it's not as if it's not well known to (in this case) the state of NJ, nor is there an infinite set of license plate designs, particularly for the actual letter/number size, shape, and coloring.

Every AI response I've seen that uses em dashes also includes spaces around them.

> I don't think the average person actually knows anything concrete about them.

The average person around them knows quite a bit about the noise level, and how far it carries. They're starting to learn about the effect consistent noise at that level has on their mental & physical well-being as well.

It's a team (part of engineering, not sales) that helps companies that bought M365 Copilot and/or Copilot Studio use it well - http://aka.ms/whoiscat

> - nearly made me cry.

> - solved my back pain.

Reminds me of the first time I got to sit in an Actually Good chair that came with a new job. My back was killing me for the first couple weeks as the decades-old knots undid themselves.

I got to relive it when I went back to crappy office chairs at my next gig.

"Someone else would be willing to ruin this, so I may as well ruin it and get paid for it" is not a direction everyone wants to, or even is willing to go.

I've held a short list of organizations I wouldn't ever work for, for a long while. Meta is on that list, but so are most of the big tech companies you see in the various anagrams.

It's getting to the point where selling my soul to the highest bidder is going to be absolutely required for any big tech job going forward.

It's a pain if that isn't communicated in the app prior to committing to payment.

Far too many introverts in software development for that.

Isometric sims make it easy to build something that looks good. CS & PZ can make things look incredible, but it's a PITA to get there.

As someone now firmly in the "used to be a developer" part of my career, AI use seems like good old atrophying of the memory muscle of coding. Whether it's because you just don't code anymore at all, or offload that thinking to AI, the effect on you is the same. You start to forget.

Don't have AI do anything you want to stay sharp on.

Only if you think of it that way -- making every human interaction purely transactional.

Conversely, there's something I've used as a guiding principle for a while now that isn't quite the same, but in the same direction: to receive help, be helpful.

Both of these also fall under the greater umbrella of "treat others as you would like to be treated".

Saying someone's name back to them is also a memory trick to help yourself remember their name for next time.

Ahh, the three relevant numbers in development: 0, 1, and infinity.

I got reeeeally good at producing repro gifs that I could plug straight inline into email replies to "can't repro"; it's forever clear that most developers either don't know how to test the product they are building, or simply can't be bothered to try.

> That emotion is nostalgia, whether real or perceived.

Absolutely. One of my prized possessions is a book I had made from digital pictures I took on a family trip when my kids were 3 & 4 years old. The pictures are of single-digit megapixel quality, but are perfect for what they needed to be: a reminder of that trip, and the memories contained within.

It seems to me that the slightly fuzzy aspect of old pictures better matches our fuzzy memories of that time.