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adrianomartins

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Co-founder at Reviewpad.com Entrepreneur, Software Engineer, Photographer.
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adrianomartins··on Ask HN: How do you monitor social media and community engagement?
We use Orbit (orbit.love) at our company (reviewpad.com). It seems to be the kind of app that you're looking for, plus is targeted at communities based on developers which seems to be your case as well. You get metrics like reach and mentions performance, as well as a kind of management system of the active community members (there's a "love (for your company)" rank, an activity (with your socials) timeline and so on. Check it out.
adrianomartins··on Ask HN: macOS app to keep windows in defined spaces when (un)plugging screens?
There are some other solutions in this Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/80hct8/app_request_m...
adrianomartins··on Ask HN: macOS app to keep windows in defined spaces when (un)plugging screens?
Indeed, that link is one of the most popular results in any google search related to this problem. Thanks anyway. Actually, there's a recent comment on it with a new tool that I hadn't seen before. Let's give that a try.
adrianomartins··on Recurrent neural network for audio noise reduction
Pretty interesting use of ML, and one that's becoming more and more useful. Is there some live use of it that we can check?
adrianomartins··on Against Pair Programming
Most definitely. Once thing that I feel is not said about pair/mob programming, and also for Trunk Based Development for that matter, is that they essentially require a different mindset and ways to approach/solve a problem.

If you're going to develop a feature in pair-programming in the exact same way you would if you'd be doing it alone, yes, it might not be the most effective thing.

If both/many programmers discuss the ideia first, implement it, correct it on the fly, and when it's done it's completely done, with no waiting time, no delaying the value, no miscommunication in comment boxes, then it's highly effective.

adrianomartins··on Against Pair Programming
I think davedx read the article, davedx even copy/pasted/quoted it, and I totally agree, the author is being overly simplistic in the analysis made.

And on the other hand, somehow the author of the article passes asynchronous code reviews as good thing. I mean, that is THE problem that pair/mob programming is solving, imho.

adrianomartins··on CBOI: Continuous Build, Occasional Integration
The name of the article is "What is a build system and what is CI?" but my main take away is really the realisation that most/many companies aren't really doing CI, they're doing instead CBOI: Continuous Build, Occasional Integration.

Also, wow, there are very efficient build systems that all devs should really know about, like Bazel.

adrianomartins··on Ask HN: How do you manage your companies knowledge base?
I feel we've been in the same spot as you. We had a wiki (google sites and google drive with a lot of documents) but information would become inaccessible from time to time, to the point it was pretty much useless. We eventually understood that the knowledge sharing/maintenance was simply being an extra step in our work, a mostly disregarded one, almost an after thought.

What we did was to put knowledge at the center stage, make it as easy as possible, pleasant to maintain, and avoid at all costs new/extra tools. We eventually settled for Notion. I'm sure you can find about notion benefits on your own, but essentially it does all that. It's super intuitive, easy and beautiful, easy to get around (albeit sometimes slow). Get everthing in the same place as much as possible, with every new tool you'll loose out (knowledge bits here and there, extra connections that stop working, or that people don't bother to check)

But getting a good information platform was only half of the story. We needed to start thinking and working differently. We decided that if we ever make a decision, or arrive at a conclusion, that's worth sharing, then it should be worth writing. And it's by doing this, and expecting all other team members to do it as well, that we arrive at this stage.

I'm sure this doesn't work for all teams, and other teams probably arrived at other, even better solutions, but this was what worked (wonders) for us.

adrianomartins··on Does anyone ever use the walkie-walkie function on iWatch?
I wanted to try it but I couldn't even get it to work between my and my wife's watch (or my friend's for that matter). It simply doesn't work.

But yeah, I wouldn't see me using this function for the reason you mentioned. It's "too wild". Perhaps now with the user profiles it would be possible to not allow messages when you're in certain modes (like "work" or "do not disturb"). Can you do that or does it have to be always on?

adrianomartins··on Tell HN: I let my 6-year-old daughter design my website
I mean... to be honest is better than most of the personal websites I've seen. But, the execution of the design is spot on, I think part of the success is due to that :P
adrianomartins··on Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid
Amazing! This is awesome news. Infinity useful.
adrianomartins··on Google Search Is Dying
Although it's true that google results for subreddit in the specialty I'm looking for are (to me) top results (because I know I'll probably read from knowledged people on what I'm looking for), most of my queries are more about general trivia and other stuff that no platform like reddit can really encompass better than google it self.

I pretty much throw everything at google (like grammar, quotes, places, trivia in general, tech questions - reddit still isn't as good as stack-overflow for developers), Brave browser will take the ads out, and I get to choose my result. It's quite a nice experience.

(And no, I don't recommend Duck Duck Go either. It fails to show obvious results every now and then. I learned that the hard way.)

adrianomartins··on Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid
This is pretty cool, something that I'd actually use if there was a simple SaaS option for it.
adrianomartins··on A tiny tool to synchronize permissions
Wow, I was not expecting it to make use of google sheets. Indeed, quite powerful for the simplicity of the solution! Good one ;)
adrianomartins··on Show HN: Spodcast, a Spotify podcast to RSS proxy
Awesome, this is actually useful!
adrianomartins··on A baby saved ‘Toy Story 2’ from near complete deletion (2021)
Wow, this makes me think, do animation teams don't really use a version control system to have multiple people contributing to the same movie at the same time? Does anybody knows how that works?
adrianomartins··on Devs Use Closed Software
An interesting followup conversation between Ken Mitchell and Gavin Howard (author of the first article) can be read here: https://lobste.rs/s/xa1yn4/devs_use_closed_software#c_dsiqsv
adrianomartins··on Open-Source Status Page Built with GitHub Actions
Pretty nifty, there are a couple of other OS solutions very similar (perhaps even forked or used by Statsig-io) out there: https://dev.to/betteruptime/top-open-source-status-page-tool...
adrianomartins··on A look inside the chips that powered the landmark Polaroid SX-70 instant camera
Impressive how back then was possible and "relatively easy" to understand how microchips would work, and also to see what new possibilities they've opened to the general consumers.
adrianomartins··on How the feds seized $3.6b in stolen crypto, or, “don't store keys in cloud”
Quick twitter thread on this subject with extra bonus: https://twitter.com/jackniewold/status/1491196199256608770
adrianomartins··on [dead]
Pretty cool in depth tutorial with tools, protocols, frameworks to build full stack web3 apps.
adrianomartins··on Web hacking techniques of 2021
Interesting community built list of the top 10 web hacking vulnerabilities used in 2021. If you're making a web product you might want your team to quickly run over these.
adrianomartins··on Peloton – A call for action [pdf]
A treadmill maker trying to get users to pay monthly subscription to use it...
adrianomartins··on Peloton – A call for action [pdf]
One might ask, if the CEO does 1% of finance, and 0% of technology, what does a CEO do? Office, HR, comms management?
adrianomartins··on Peloton – A call for action [pdf]
Well, that's a type of deck that I never seen before. The amount of times and ways they leverage the actual bad state of the company to make it look like a worthwhile investment is astonishing.
adrianomartins··on We (devs) sound like idiots when we talk about technical debt
This one made me laugh: 'how quickly would the CFO get fired if they claimed “we have a lot of debt” but couldn’t produce a balance sheet'
adrianomartins··on Resources to encourage children to learn to code
Wow, awesome suggestions in this subthread. Yes, definitely Lego (imho) is a sure way to get your kids to deepen the thought process involved in playing. I remembered many times as a kid when I had to get creative because I wanted to build something different or simply just because I was missing a specific kind of part. Awesome times.
adrianomartins··on ASCII art for semantic code commenting
Wow. This is one of those "I bet someone has already done that" tools that developers wish they had but not as much to go and search for it. Bookmarked and shared. Thanks ;)
adrianomartins··on Ask HN: What's some device you often hear, but in your case it didn't work
Oh boy... I'm editing that, thanks ;) (well, I would if I could.)
adrianomartins··on There is more to Scrum than Scrum itself
It seems that in fact there should be less to Scrum than Scrum itself. A comment from Jeff Sutherland (co creator of Scrum): https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:68280204...
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