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when I did my batch, almost everyone I met was scrappy. it was tinkerers, artists, hacker types, drawn by curiosity and the RC community. most had been laid off, were making a career change, or simply weirdos not on the usual ladder.

I got a cheap bedroom sublet through a former recurser and sublet my own place back home.

not your comment, but some replies below make it sound like RC would be otherwise, full of rich kids or "retreat" types maybe, but it's the opposite.

leaving work, paying NYC rent, yes it's all expensive but places like RC that create free spaces like this are part of the solution

This looks great. I've been building some local-first software and trying to think of low-lift ways for people to connect instances with each other - I look forward to trying this out

Best comment on the thread. Fellow potter & sculptor here, is your work online anywhere?

Amazing list of resources, thank you

Related and a step beyond just viewing diffs - has anyone found a good TUI solution for a local equivalent of doing GitHub PR reviews?

I love the simplicity of using existing tools in this post. It would be nice to have something similar that would allow for adding online comment threads on a diff, and output it to a simple markdown file. Of course, I'm thinking about a local agent workflow here.

Two advantages I see to files in folders are the ability to browse and the ability to easily read - by both LLMs and humans.

But I also agree that this has limitations. If I were to challenge you and say that Obsidian solves this, or gets close to solving it, what gaps would you say were left unfulfilled?

I am because I'm working on something in this space and your comment touches on my three main ingredients: text files, SQLite, and graphs.

Yep, you're right, I read this too fast - it's also breaking long lines into many and I read this in reverse. I just imagined how much I could reduce my own LOC by adjusting the print width on my prettier settings..

"Shrink your codebase 5-10x"

"[1] When computing LOC, we strip blank lines and break long lines into many"

This is going to be a difficult time.. and that's OK. Great change is upon you.

One book I cannot recommend enough is Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life by James Hollis.

Listen deeply to yourself, be kind with yourself. It's so very hard but so very very rewarding.

I've been thinking about this (dishes vs creative work). I think it's because our high-production culture requires everyone to figure out their own way of providing value - otherwise you'll go hungry.

Getting a little meta here .

If we were to consider this with an economics-type lens, one could say that there is a finite-yet-unbounded field of possibility within which we can stake our ground to provide value. This field is finite in that we (as individuals, groups, or societies) only have so much knowledge and technology with which to explore the field. As we gain more in either category, the field expands.

Maybe an analogy for this would be terraforming an inhospitable planet such as Mars - our ability to extract value from it and support an increasing amount of actors is limited by how fast we can make it habitable.

the efficiency of industrialization results in less space in the field for people to create value. So the boundaries must be expanded. It's a different kind of work, and maybe this is the distinction between toil and creative work.

And we're in a world now where there is decreasing toil-work -- it's a resource that is becoming more and more scarce. So we must find creative, entrepreneurial ways to keep up.

Anyways, back to the kitchen sink -- doing our dishes is simply not as urgent as doing the creative thing that will help you stay afloat. With this anxious pressure in mind it makes sense to me that people reach for using AI to (attempt to) do the latter.

AI is great at toil-work, so we feel that it ought to be good at creative work too. The lines between the two are very blurry, and there is so much hype and things are moving so fast. But I think the ones who do figure out how to grow in this era will be those who learn to tell the distinction between the two, and resist the urge to let an LLM do the creative work for them. The kids in college right now who don't use AI to write for them, but use it to help gather research and so on.

Another planetary example comes to mind -- it's like there's a new Western gold rush frontier - but instead of it being open territory spanning beyind the horizon, it's slowly being revealed as the water recedes, and we are all already crowded at the shore.

Any chance you have a repo to share?

How far into the future is my concern

Well, here we are!

a truly heartwarming website and discussion. I built my wheels the Sheldon Way as well, I'm looking at them right now. Such a rare combination of wisdom and generosity. Thank you, OP, for posting. Also, hey all, click that donate button!

I have been switching between OpenCode and Claude - one thing I like about OpenCode is the ability to define custom agents. These can be ones tailored to specific workflows like PR reviews or writing change logs. I haven't yet attempted the equivalent of this with skills in Claude.

These two solutions look feel and smell like the same thing. Are they the same thing?

Any OpenCode users out there have any hot or nuanced takes?

Aider builds something it calls a "repo map" that I believe is for a similar purpose. Might be worth taking a look!

I haven't used Claude Code, but recently switched to OpenCode. My token usage and cost is a lot higher, I'm not sure why yet, but I suspect Aider's approach is much more lean.

I don't have any good resources off-hand (other than what shows up in a quick search), but my "best practices" are to always squash and keep PRs as small as possible.

When a working branch falls behind main, I prefer to rebase it instead of merging from main to keep it up to date. However, if you've already pushed your working branch to a repo, after rebasing you need to `git push --force` - which is a problem if there are others who have previously cloned the working branch.

Should they be squashing instead?

This is great. It's amazing to be able to get more insight into how companies work -- I imagine that at most companies, many employees don't even have this kind of knowledge around what is happening in their own business

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In school, I would, chapter-by-chapter: - Underline & make notes in the margins - After finishing, write a "précis" of that chapter on an index card - Below the précis, go through the chapter again and copy over underlined passages, notes I had made and questions I had come up with while reading

Then, I'd end up with a stack of index cards for each book, which I'd keep for reference. I rarely looked back at these notes, but the 'chore' of doing this for every chapter really helped the complicated stuff sink in.

This is an amazing resource. Thank you!

This looks great and is maybe exactly what I'm looking for! I have a couple questions:

I don't see anything in the docs about supplying an unsubscribe link. I don't see an endpoint in the API that could be used with an anchor tag in the footer of the email. Is this something that is supported?

And: my client is concerned about email/spam regulations, which I'm very unfamiliar with. Is there anything I'd need to look out for in this regard?

It should be noted that she published a book of the same name earlier this year: https://www.amazon.com/How-Do-Nothing-Resisting-Attention/dp...

A lot of people are suggesting querying Amazon for ISBN data - another option is the ISBNdb API: https://isbndb.com/ There's also the OpenLibrary API (from the Internet Archive) which may include some more info https://openlibrary.org/

I don't see any info about jobs on the about page! Am I missing something?

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