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My app https://www.tasktxt.com is a text based todo list with timers. Similar in spirit.

I made a video overview of this tool if you want to see it in action. I also compared its philosophy to my tool TaskTXT (http://www.tasktxt.com).

Hmm video overview: https://youtu.be/mRbaXHlhwUI

Imba is a compile-to-javascript language that makes HTML and CSS first-class parts of the language as well as react-like custom components. Its the fastest way to create UI that I've found.

https://imba.io

Something like: When he quit, he chose a last day that was after his shares vest, which his managers agreed to. When they fired him, it was immediate, before the shares vest.

Reminds me of this story “How I lost my $50,000 Twitter username” from 2014.

https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-...

This is similar in spirit to my app, TaskTXT (https://www.tasktxt.com). It's a plain text task manager which allows you to time your tasks, helping you avoid distraction. The timer data is stored right in the document.

I made a video about how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbGawb728xA

Imba 2 does have some level of support for SSR/hydration, but I haven't used those features myself.

I'm guessing this comes from the California / Bay Area perspective where 200k salaries are not rare (but a "just ok" house costs $2.5 million)

I made a video player for studying languages (Chinese in my case) its fully keyboard driven and allows marking areas of the video to be looped, so I can play through the video and efficiently mark all the areas with speech, then loop through those and navigate between them. I can also write a note for each marked area, which I use to transcribe and translate the video content.

I'll make it public in the near future.

The author should move the fun video at the end to the top!

You can save Figma files as regular files on your desktop. My app Flinto includes a Sketch import and Figma import feature. I get your point, but just pointing out its not as locked down as you might have assumed.

This feeling is familiar to me as well, I'm sure almost everyone feels it.

It reminds me of drawing advice, people always want to know how to get better at drawing, and the answer inevitably is just "practice more", I'd bet drawing skill matches very closely to "time spent drawing" and programming is probably the same way too.

I made a new video showing the process of installing Imba and getting to "Hello World" for anyone who wants a little help getting started.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olyFE__fNQQ

You can import any node module and use it with imba syntax. I’ve never had a problem doing this.

Imba is great. I was a fan of Coffeescript and glad to find something with similar syntax, but after using Imba, the syntax is far from my favorite part. It's a replacement for react that is much easier to use (there's no special state management, just use regular variables), and has much less performance problems (seems to render whatever I throw at it without slowing down). The CSS shorthand and added features are hard to stop using once you've learned them.

I'm not aware of a faster way to "express" a working software UI than Imba.

Same here, I learned Chinese largely by studying a pre made deck of sentences with audio over the course of a few years. I had lots of conversation practice too but the SRS studying bootstrapped my knowledge to the point where I could even attempt conversations. I used to believe that using a pre made deck is a waste of time just because I heard a few people say so, now I know it’s not always true.

The /idea/ of going from a design tool to working app is obvious. It's figuring out a way to do it that works which is hard.

Is it necessary to use a worker for the timer? If you just record the start time, then inconsistent setTimeout calls aren't a problem because each call calculates the duration from start time to current time. Or am I missing something?

I haven’t seen any mention of what I think is the best gif screen recording app, Claquette. It’s quite advanced and has built in cropping/trimming. The exported GIFs are high quality and somehow magically quite small file size.

https://www.peakstep.com/claquette/

A one Medical doctor "prescribed" me homeopathic medicine for my sore throat. I didn't realize what it was until I looked it up later. Other than that being a member was a nice experience.

I don't have a degree and it hasn't caused me any problems getting coding jobs in silicon valley. It never even came up.

My jobs have mostly been at startups, so maybe it is an uphill battle at big corporations like you mentioned, but I'd be surprised if lack of degree was a sticking point for a talented coder trying for a job at Apple/Google/Facebook.

You can actually try this out in your browser with your webcam here: https://www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/webvoice.htm

Maybe using a laptop on a couch, or trying to move after standing up.

I'm very skeptical of these kinds of things, but when someone with a similar mindset to me recommended it, I checked it out with an open mind. Back pain I had been having for several months went away right after reading it.

Is this more bold than Steve Jobs' $1/year pay plan?

I can't find it, but there is a contest where people are challenged to re-create a mockup in front of a live audience, without seeing a browser until they are finished. I'd also like to do that :)

edit: someone else found it!

A common way to maximize profits is to concern yourself with the interests of your customers.

Do you think unicorns are paying lower than market salaries?

Well, Steve was half white. A Syrian actor would have been just as innacurate.

"Oh god, do we need another language that compiles to javascript?!"

—Everyone, probably