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Quickshell is a toolkit for building status bars, widgets, lockscreens, and other desktop components using QtQuick. It can be used alongside your wayland compositor or window manager to build a complete desktop environment.
After reading Blue Period, Nina got inspired and invested time into learning how to draw, following guidelines from a book. She shared her learnings from the journey. Very inspiring! Can I draw? Should I learn how to?
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?”
Using static analysis, it finds bugs and performance issues, offers simplifications, and enforces style rules.
Баунс читает Кафку.
Would you love me if I became a worm?, somebody could ask. I would respond that no, I don't in fact love you, for you are a worm.
Indeed I find humans more valuable.
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.
Paced web reader (pwr) - an esoteric feed reader and workflow for keeping up to date online.
Fast, modern and advanced photo management suite. Free and open source Nextcloud app.
Notes as database. Supports Frontmatter, querying, backlinks, live preview, wiki style linking link, templates.
HackerNews post about Betula
WTF Notebook gives me a place to park the impulse to fix it now, damn it! until I have more context for deciding what to work on first. Instead, for two weeks, I just write things down.
In many other languages, you have to not only evaluate testing libraries, but also write your tests in a style that complies with that library’s expectations. Gophers are blessed to have a thoroughly adequate solution out-of-the-box, and even further blessed to have an active ecosystem where folks are making in-depth testing a walk in the park.
Another perspective is that talent is closely tied to passion and motivation. People who are deeply interested and motivated in a specific area are often seen as having a natural talent for it. This perspective suggests that talent is nurtured through genuine enthusiasm and dedication.
The bicycle, as we know it today, was not invented until the late 1800s. Here are some theories about why
Gemini is a new internet technology supporting an electronic library of interconnected text documents. Gemini isn't about innovation or disruption, it's about providing some respite for those who feel the internet has been disrupted enough already. We are out to build a lightweight online space where documents are just documents, in the interests of every reader's privacy, attention and bandwidth.
Personal goals are generally expected to happen later.
The reason it’s hard to get going on personal goals is that you’re already using all of your time. No matter who you are, you’re already using all 24 hours, every day, for something. Because this will always be true, goals that happen at all must happen now, while you still don’t yet have time.
Basically, you learn to work in small, uniform parcels of time. They’re short, timer-bound, and unwaveringly focused on a particular outcome. Most importantly, they can fit into real life, as it already is.