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dana_janssen

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dana_janssen··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
We built https://tadum.app, an online meeting agenda that rolls forward incomplete agenda items to the next agenda. This ends up creating a low effort paper trail, saves on meeting prep time, and keeps agendas consistently formatted/organized. It's intended for recurring weekly/monthly/quarterly meetings--we built it based on how we run meetings with our clients and are happy to see other teams jump in and have success with it.
dana_janssen··on Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method
I've recently played with an open source alternative called foam, which builds a similar experience to Obsidian but inside a VSCode workspace. It's a new project, but under active development, and is already pretty close to the base Obsidian experience of notes + backlinks + graphing https://github.com/foambubble/foam/
dana_janssen··on Build Static Websites
Middleman still receives consistent updates. It's been a rock solid platform for us to build static websites and the occasional prototype out of for the last few years. Deploys easily to GitHub pages, too.

https://middlemanapp.com https://github.com/middleman/middleman

dana_janssen··on SASS vs. LESS
Sass has an implementation of "watch mode": sass --watch + livereload (either the guard-livereload gem or the app). This allows you to save you file and have the browser immediately refresh. If you use middleman to build out your templates this functionality is built in with "middleman server --livereload"
dana_janssen··on Ruby Patterns from GitHub's Codebase
Are you able to provide more detail on how something like this would be set up?
dana_janssen··on The First Step for Ruby on Rails
rvm still has more traction in the community and the end result is going to be very similar to rbenv for the majority of users--except that rvm has a built-in rubies installer + gemsets, which can make things easier for beginners to dive in and access other projects. New users should probably stick to rvm.