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Ok so I may downplayed how much having a fast computer helps with software engineering. Being able to run tests and checks quickly is really helping me to stay in the flow… got my first new MacBook Pro in 8 years!
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Building out our own responsive-highly-customisable-spreadsheet-like component is going way better than I imagined!

Frontend has come very far with the likes of #SvelteJS #TypeScript #TailwindCSS
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After hours of messing around with an OSS data grid and trying to contribute I have given up and begun reimplementing just the bits I need for a feature. I will add additional capabilities for the next feature and so on to keep on delivering value. wish me luck.
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If you think you’ve used await a lot in JavaScript well guess what you’re wrong, you need to be using it harder and more often!

…yes I did it again and left out the await.
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After hours of messing around with an OSS data grid and trying to contribute I have given up and begun reimplementing just the bits I need for a feature. I will add additional capabilities for the next feature and so on to keep on delivering value. wish me luck.
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#EpicProcrastination: elaborate, virtuous important work done at the neglect of other more valuable work.

E.g. Building a blog platform instead of writing a blog.
E.g. Replatforming the core business for 3 years and not adding customer value.

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Those working on side projects, have you talked to a customer this week?

Don’t over think it with fancy user research techniques etc, those can come later… for now just try and talk to users/customers regularly and build the habit!

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Built an AutoLayout component in @sveltejs recently to mimic the behaviour of @figmadesign’s AutoLayout. Helps me to align mental models when jumping between design and dev.
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Small amounts of daily consistency will out perform irregular surges of work.

Didn’t code today but worked on other equally important aspects of building a product.

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It’s taken a good 6 months of using @sveltejs and @tailwindcss to get to a place where I’m able to think more intuitively about the composition of my components in regards to state, structure and style. Feels good man!
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Wow @github actions are pretty great & easy to set up. Though I did get caught out when trying to fast forward merge into a branch at the end. GitHub actions does a shallow checkout which doesn’t work with fast forward merge unless you set the fetch depth to 0. #buildinpublic
I forgot to put all of the awaits in my TypeScript so I was just nsync-ing with my async-ing like some kind of single threaded degenerate.
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So @janowskit and I are planning to #BuildInPublic the systems catalog we wished we’d always had at all our enterprise jobs!

At the moment we are domain modelling and I can tell you that I’m very much giving off these kind of vibes - everything is connected!
If you haven’t tried @copy_ai give it a go. It’s been helpful for a landing page I’ve been building. It really shines when trying to come up with divergent ideas and phrasings by yourself, it’s too easy to get caught up on one’s own ideas and not consider others. #BuildInPublic