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What is a "solver"? Do you have any resources where I can learn about them?
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Honest question: do you think the same exact 10+K lines of code are easier to read spread across 1,000 files? And why do you think the overhead of maintaining the extra code for module boundaries is w…
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I'm unsure how to "sell" this idea. I don't want to force my view on others until I truly understand the problem that they're trying to solve with modules/microservices. …
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I suspect that most people would be better off favoring inlined code over modules and microservices. It's okay to not organize your code. It's okay to have files with 10,000 lines. It's…
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Here's my current podcast list, with ratings: https://taylor.town/podcasts
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I tend to favor rewrites over refactors for two reasons: 1. Writing code is easier than reading code. 2. When a team is "scared" of their codebase, everybody becomes frustrated and confused …
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I love fly.io! It has all the configurations you need without getting in your way. Load balancing, geo-replication, canary deployments, and Postgres instances/replicas "just work" out o…
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What I've been doing lately is keeping a public /now page with my next few months of project roadmaps. Make your roadmaps sharable! Ask friends and family for feedback :) It's much easi…
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I'd love to hear more about why your current systems are failing, and who you're trying to become! Feel free to throw something on my calendar: https://calendly.com/taylor-to…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_top_book_lists
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> Finally, I really want to wrap up a lot of my side projects and ideas I've had for a while, since I start a few too many things that I don't get around to finishing. Shoot me an email a…
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> The area I need to work on the most is phone use before bed. For me, I started falling asleep quickly once I chose a home for my phone (downstairs on my kitchen counter). I also discovered I star…
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I eat a lot healthier when I make nutritious foods convenient. One thing that works for me is preparing raw vegetables into "to-go" packs when I bring my groceries home. We use glass tupperw…
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If you're interested, I'd love to chat about your systems and goals! Whenever I'm feeling a bit directionless, small conversations with strangers start my snowball rolling :) Throw some…
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Excellent YouTube channel about a group of friends that say "yes" to things: https://www.youtube.com/@YesTheory Very inspiring!…
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Thanks! I'll check out that research. And yeah, having NO plan for notifications sounds like a bad idea. I've made a habit of checking my emails/texts once per day and checking Slack ev…
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What's your blog? And how do you plan to run a calmer business?
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I'm bicycling from SF to LA as part of the 2023 AIDS/LifeCycle! Please donate! My mission for this company is to (1) prevent AI from devastating human economies and (2) fix gig work. My inve…
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I don't recommend trying 2 days per week. For me, doing something EVERY DAY is much easier than trying to maintain 2 a gym-day-schedule. Last year, I started doing 10 pushups every 90 minutes. It…
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For Christmas this year, I gave my wife a booklet of my sketches (I am not very good at drawing). Each doodle was a memory we had together in 2022. Our whole family had a blast looking through my crap…
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I consistently drank 4-6 cups of wine/beer per day for ~5 years. A few major ways it changed my life: 1. I suddenly lost weight! Drinking calories makes it difficult to stay healthy. My friends a…
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I use fastmail and love it
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Same! I started doing it this year, and it's... surprisingly difficult. I got tired of devoting diffuse attention to meetings that don't really need me. So I've been slowly disappearing…
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> - In the morning: make a list of what I want/have to do - doesnt have to be exhaustive just write SOMETHING. One pattern I used for a long time was "2 BIG THINGS, 3 SMALL THINGS". …
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> De-technologify. Ideally this is the year where I stop having a smartphone, very few active use-cases are left for that for me. We'll see ... I posted a few pointers on reducing smartphone a…
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How do you plan on battling your perfectionism? It's something that's been holding me back for a long time...
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> * find something new (that's not related to writing) to keep me creatively busy I'm a hobby collector! Feel free to to reach out at hello@taylor.town if you'd like to chat about cr…
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How do you plan to procrastinate less?