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davestewarton Ask HN: Is there a good camping chair that is comfortable for programming?

I bought a 3 legged camping stool which I thought would be portable and good for sitting against a tree, but unfortunately it gave me pins and needles after about 20 minutes.

https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/camping-tripod/_/R-p-13373

Shame, as it was fine up until that point.

davestewarton The work is never just “the work” (2022)

Thanks!

davestewarton The work is never just “the work” (2022)

You're very welcome!

davestewarton The work is never just “the work” (2022)

Fantastic points!

davestewarton The work is never just “the work” (2022)

Sure! It's in Sketch, and the assets are here if you want to play:

https://github.com/davestewart/davestewart-site/tree/main/co...

davestewarton The work is never just “the work” (2022)

Fair point! Consider it fixed

davestewarton The work is never just “the work” (2022)

The article description is "A deep dive on why projects always overrun and a framework to improve future estimation"

This was a personal investigation into my faulty estimation skills, off the back of a small project which became a medium project, which became a large project with no shortage of surprises, overruns and pain.

The blog post was born from an honest and thorough postmortem where it turns out most of the work was simply not expected – and so wasn't accounted for.

I then went a stage further and attempted to outline more general reasons for this and to visualise how might look in terns of time and effort. It's not meant to be scientific, but is certainly an interesting way to look at things.

Anyway, I hope someone finds it useful.

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I recently shed 10kg/1.5st following a three-month Keto + Intermittent Fasting routine.

Whilst the weight loss was great, even more exciting were the hidden benefits:

- increased discipline - better daily routine - getting my evenings back - going to bed and getting up earlier - regaining my love for cooking - understanding nutrition

If you're interested, here's everything I researched, learned and reflected on in one big blog post, including:

- how to plan for keto - what books to buy and websites to visit - how to plan, shop and cook 3 meals a day - spreadsheets with macros and meal plans - what to expect during the process - how to manage it around the rest of your life - how to enjoy it and what to do when you don't

Plenty more as well; hopefully it's useful if you've been considering one or both regimes.

Enjoy!

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Nuxt Content Assets is a Nuxt 3 module that lets you store assets next to your content then reference with relative paths (both in markup and frontmatter) then serve the lot with zero configuration.

This makes it simpler to manage content and assets as individual units, rather than having to juggle separate content and assets folders.

Live demo: https://stackblitz.com/github/davestewart/nuxt-content-asset...

davestewarton On mindsets, mind shifts and wins

That's kind of you to comment! Thank you. FWIW it's a really fun exercise to log your own wins; I suggest you have a go!

davestewarton On mindsets, mind shifts and wins

A 10-year (ish) retrospective of self-reflection and improvement

davestewarton How Much Toilet Paper? – The Coronavirus Toilet Paper Calculator

Try this one: https://got-paper.com

davestewarton How Much Toilet Paper? – The Coronavirus Toilet Paper Calculator

Got Paper author here.

I didn't account for that!

I guess you could approximate with less wipes.

Do you use so little toilet paper you don't need a calculator anyway?

davestewarton Vue.js: the good, the meh, and the ugly

Is there anything in particular you found sub-optimal?

davestewarton Vuex Pathify – ridiculously simple Vuex setup and wiring

I've just released the 1.0 version of Vuex Pathify.

Pathify provides a declarative, state-based, path interface to your Vuex store.

What that means in English, is that you access store properties by path, and only by path. The plugin simplifies Vuex's API from 4 operations, 4 helpers, 3 accessor syntaxes and 3 or 4 naming formats to just 3 methods and a single path format.

Aside from the docs link above, there's a bunch of CodeSandbox demos so you can jump in and work with real code straight away:

https://codesandbox.io/s/github/davestewart/vuex-pathify/tre...

Cheers,

Dave

davestewarton JQuery deconstructed

Nice links!

Agreed about the amount of space used up when the blocks are closed, but once you've clicked a few to view the internal code, it's not such a big deal.

Perhaps someone else would like to take up the challenge of make the jQuery code navigable by treemap!?

davestewarton JQuery deconstructed

OK... jQuery Deconstructed now has 3 colour options: Colourful, Pastel and Grey :)

davestewarton JQuery deconstructed

OK, OK! This is Dave, I made the app.

I get the picture. I honestly didn't expect it to get the attention it's gotten.

If any of you want to play with some CSS colors, or do a PhotoShop mockup, I will happily provide an alternative color dropdown.

I guess I have my monitor set to a reasonably low contrast, so I'm not blinded by looking at it.