see also: https://www.reddit.com/r/crboxes/

Ensō is a writing tool that helps you enter a state of flow. It does this by separating writing from editing and thus making it harder for you to edit yourself.
The text fades away as you type so you can focus on what you want to say instead of how you want to say it.
You can’t select or edit text, but you can download and review it once you’re done.

Some of Stephen Wolfram’s “productivity hacks” to make his days and projects more productive. Daily life, desk environment, outside the office, presentation setup, filesystem organization, Wolfram Notebook systems, databases, personal analytics.

At an intellectual level, the key to building this infrastructure is to structure, streamline and automate everything as much as possible—while recognizing both what’s realistic with current technology, and what fits with me personally.

a tiny camera that takes pictures every 30 seconds, so I can remember what I saw.

Splits whole screen by named squares and moves cursor there.
Note: Windows and Linux support are still in development.
explanation: https://youtu.be/FYV4HbW2XCI

• Shipping is really hard and you have to make it your main priority

• Shipping doesn’t mean deploying code, it means making your leadership team happy

• You need your leadership team to trust you in order to ship

• Most of the essential technical work is in anticipating problems and creating fallback plans

• Scale back your implementation work as you approach launch so you’re free to jump on last-minute problems

• You should constantly ask yourself “can I ship right this second?”

Being prolific forces you to take notice. Taking notice develops your taste.

I’ve completely eliminated the alarm clock from my morning routine for about six months. The biggest impacts it's had on my life are: I’ve become a morning person. I wake up feeling great and feel less sleepy during the day.

Focus on what fascinates you, even if it’s uncharacteristic.
There is no purpose because there is no line connecting moments in time.
There is no plot.
You are not a story.

A simple utility to add Mastodon bookmarks to https://betula.mycorrhiza.wiki/ - gglanzani/betulon

Wow!

Вывели с клиентом универсальную «инструкцию к терапии». На случай, если кому-то это нужно. Как часто и бывает, у него была популярная мечта сначала что-то поменять в голове, а потом зажить по-новому.

• make it for yourself first

• automate the backups; prefer to edit locally and push

• avoid SBCs (ie. RaspberryPi) and prefer PCs

• you don't have to let everyone in

The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it

The layout provides easier chord and scale patterns, and for beginner musicians it can have a much shallower learning curve than other types of instruments.

Your unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub.

Set in Tokyo’s Suginami-ku neighbourhood, home to many manga artists, Open Sky House is home to artists and architect Zajirogh, his wife, and their three children. Having always dreamed of living in a camper or a ship, Zaijrogh designed a large central open-air courtyard and covered it with a retractable sail-like sheet. The family uses the courtyard as a living room which is furnished with camping furniture that can get wet or be moved quickly if needed. A series of colourful walls line the courtyard, with precious items that need to stay dry kept behind a set of glass and steel sliding doors with another set connecting to the fully equipped L-shaped kitchen. The second story features space for the family to sleep, work and play and includes a 1sqm (small closet-sized) study that Zajirogh refers to as “his little sanctuary”. A door leading onto the balcony wraps around the open roof, this provides access to open and close the roof as well as an area for Zajirogh to paint freely without concern about mess.

Did you ever wake up in the middle of the night wondering what would happen if you applied JPEG-style lossy compression to text?

Blog post about very small linux distribution and small programs