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Do you work primarily alone? How is source control slowing you down? No planning? I would normally never ask this but since this is such a radical suggestion I

Do you work primarily alone? How is source control slowing you down? No planning? I would normally never ask this but since this is such a radical suggestion I’d love to see some of your work. I’m guessing no open source without source control. Would you mind sharing some of your public projects so we can see the kind of results to expect from this mindset?

1996 8y ago
Sure, you can check cryptomarketplot.com - but no open source sorry. I work in small team because I like productivity. Why no source control? Same for why not updating the operating system or tweaking the keyboard shortcuts on your editor. Extra things take extra brain power. Remove everything extra to concentrate on the core. No planning is important to concentrate even more on important features: the right moment dictates what you should do right now.
- fouc 8y ago
  how do you test out changes and revert them easily? (basically how do you backup? git makes this trivial, and doesn't get in the way of anything
  - 1996 8y ago
    The old way: cp -adr program-v3-withnewfeatureX program-v4 Then work on program-v4 with test deploy until you are happy. Then when ready, change your production deploy scripts to use program-v4, and the "emergency-revert" scripts to use program-v3 Editing 2 scripts is not more complicated that running git commands. That said, I like git. git is nice. But unless you are writing the new linux kernel with tens or hundreds of people you may not need it. I try to remove everything I do not absolutely need and use the simplest hardware I can get away with. Complexity for complexity sake is not productivity.
    - tom_ 8y ago
      I've always been disappointed by people that say they work without source control - because it always turns out they do something like this. Always. And this differs from source control in no meaningful fashion. Once again, my hopes of finding out some interesting new way of working, that I couldn't even imagine: dashed!
      - 1996 8y ago
        The ways are not so different. The tools are, a bit. As you wisely said, this differs from source control in no meaningful fashion.
- rorykoehler 8y ago
  Certainly not a team productivity hack haha

1996 8y ago

Sure, you can check cryptomarketplot.com - but no open source sorry. I work in small team because I like productivity. Why no source control? Same for why not updating the operating system or tweaking the keyboard shortcuts on your editor. Extra things take extra brain power. Remove everything extra to concentrate on the core. No planning is important to concentrate even more on important features: the right moment dictates what you should do right now.

fouc 8y ago
how do you test out changes and revert them easily? (basically how do you backup? git makes this trivial, and doesn't get in the way of anything
- 1996 8y ago
  The old way: cp -adr program-v3-withnewfeatureX program-v4 Then work on program-v4 with test deploy until you are happy. Then when ready, change your production deploy scripts to use program-v4, and the "emergency-revert" scripts to use program-v3 Editing 2 scripts is not more complicated that running git commands. That said, I like git. git is nice. But unless you are writing the new linux kernel with tens or hundreds of people you may not need it. I try to remove everything I do not absolutely need and use the simplest hardware I can get away with. Complexity for complexity sake is not productivity.
  - tom_ 8y ago
    I've always been disappointed by people that say they work without source control - because it always turns out they do something like this. Always. And this differs from source control in no meaningful fashion. Once again, my hopes of finding out some interesting new way of working, that I couldn't even imagine: dashed!
    - 1996 8y ago
      The ways are not so different. The tools are, a bit. As you wisely said, this differs from source control in no meaningful fashion.
rorykoehler 8y ago
Certainly not a team productivity hack haha