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by jen729w 6y ago
> Mobility seems like an issue, but an external keyboard + tiny monitor seems to solve that. Though using a backpack + monitor + keyboard + mac mini + uninterruptible power supply is ... well ... maybe not too practical. It's hard t
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by jen729w 6y ago
Interesting that the blame here seems to sit with Apple. Aren’t we asking why Google, who owns the browser, can’t make YouTube, a video player, that they own, work in that browser on 2020 hardware? YouTube is a turd. I do everything I can t
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by jen729w 6y ago
Well yeah, that was me. ;-) Perception is why. Especially for certain clients. Let’s pretend that I work for the French department of the interior and some time early next year I go to install SolarWinds. You think the boss is gonna OK that
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by jen729w 6y ago
I was about to start a SW design literally the first day back next year. Not any more.
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by jen729w 6y ago
It does, thanks. I’ve always wondered, how does the commit hash get in to the actual version number? You don’t know the hash before you commit, so now to get the hash in to the public commit version you have to commit again, which changes t
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by jen729w 6y ago
(Beginner/very part-time meditator here.) Just start. I think most ‘courses’ will address this concern — it’s kinda the basic tenet of meditation, that you‘ll notice thoughts but that this is okay. You train yourself to notice them, ob
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by jen729w 6y ago
It’s a big boon to the development of tiny simple UIs! I use XState to manage my login state. Not logged in, trying, logged in, log in failed, trying log out, logged out. The thing I love is the confidence the machine gives me. Unless I’v
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by jen729w 6y ago
Meta question: why are we at v350.06680? The numbers nerd in me needs to understand.
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by jen729w 6y ago
:-) Also recently I’ve been starting my IDs at `.11`. Same idea — sometimes you really want stuff to always appear ‘at the front’ and this lets you achieve that. In the project system I’m setting up now, for example, we’re using the PMP met
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by jen729w 6y ago
> Maaaaaybeee you might want to strip last octet in IP number from logs, but that's pretty much it. It’s hosted on Netlify, so I don’t even have logs. :-)
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by jen729w 6y ago
I think you’re right, and recognising that some people just aren’t organised people is a valuable emotional skill. Those of us that are organised just need to help those people. Or be the person in our organisation that takes control of
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by jen729w 6y ago
That is a problem that I haven’t solved. Elsewhere someone suggested going 36-bit. Or hex, or whatever. So after 99 you’d go A0 and so on. I don’t love that — the neatness gene is making me itch — but it’d work. I’d say perhaps you’re bei
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by jen729w 6y ago
Okay so the pain I had was taking retina screenshots and having them show up in retina resolution. The site is written in MDX and then `gatsby-plugin-mdx` does the heavy lifting. What I could not get to work was Markdown formatting for inli
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by jen729w 6y ago
Given the scope of this product — basically everyone runs it — any chance that this is some sort of hoax will be mitigated by the “too large to be a hoax” thing. Probably some sort of fallacy whose name I don’t know. See: moon landing. Of c
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by jen729w 6y ago
I love the idea and congratulate you on its execution, but I’d discourage others from trying the same, at least initially. The problem is that you have analysis-paralysis. You worry that you’ll make your 40-49 folder then realise that you
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by jen729w 6y ago
> The Johnny Decimal website is silent on the subject of stewardship. Here I want to focus on two aspects: keeping things working, and managing succession. An error I intend to correct! On sufficiently large projects I believe you need a
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by jen729w 6y ago
Oh, wow. And 9 years old. Thanks for showing me this. People do just naturally put numbers in front of things, though, and I’m convinced it’s to solve the muscle-memory issue. Or it’s that I generally work with nerds and we find it easier t
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by jen729w 6y ago
I’m not a historian, my friend. Dewey’s kinda famous, my mate basically said it out loud one day, my name is Johnny, the system has a decimal in it, boom, that was it. At the time I was the only person using it and the idea of a website was
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by jen729w 6y ago
Repeating your IDs is very powerful indeed. This system started when I ran a dance production. We were touring to multiple venues in multiple states, but they all have ticketing, seating plans, merch sales, etc. I can still remember that sy
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by jen729w 6y ago
100%, it’s what I do. Also on my to-do list: get a few example structures up there. But drop me a mail and I’ll send you my home structure for inspiration. hello <at> the domain.
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by jen729w 6y ago
Mate, it’s a website. You come, you read it, you leave. Next you’ll want a GDPR policy for your library book. If that privacy policy doesn’t make it screamingly obvious that I’m not tracking you in any way then holy moly I don’t know what t
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by jen729w 6y ago
> My current thinking is to keep this photo-library as-is, but put all of my ‘normal’ files into a JD structure. Yes. This sort of data set already sorts itself pretty well: by date. There’s no need to mess with that. See also: your musi
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by jen729w 6y ago
Blood sweat and tears? I tried really really hard to get them as small as possible while still being original-sharp. It’s a real PITA to be honest. I’m typing this from bed and can’t remember the exact details but chuck me an email and I’ll
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by jen729w 6y ago
Depends if you want to find anything. :-B
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by jen729w 6y ago
> Better would just be have "14.01 Timesheets", and each timesheet gets the year and week prepended to it. This is what I do. Isn’t the site clear? I (still, 5 years later) have `14.01 Timesheets`, and within there I have `yymm
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by jen729w 6y ago
Re: Dewey, no. You make your own category numbers up for each system, every one is different (unless you create a standard, e.g. if you do lots of similar projects). How have I never seen that link?! Yeah the issues described therein sound
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by jen729w 6y ago
Cheers, noted. I have a bunch of work to do on the site...
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by jen729w 6y ago
See this comment to save me repeating myself. :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415022
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by jen729w 6y ago
Good points, thanks, and probably the main thing I’ll take away from this thread. “It isn’t for everyone” is absolutely right, and if I can make that separation higher up then it’s better for everyone.
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by jen729w 6y ago
Multiple projects: https://play.johnnydecimal.com/johnny.decimal/projects My top-priority job as soon as I get time over Xmas is to get (an updated, better) version of this up on the main site. It’s the #1 question I g

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