Re:Tired of productivity “hacks”. What long term techniques ...
by karmakaze on Sunday May 31, 2020 @01:02AM
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Productive toward what goal?
I found it hard to stay on-track when developing side-projects. Then I needed an efficient way to find call-stacks for a good number (~100) of code lines from endpoints (REST, GraphQL, or module public) endpoints in a huge Ruby codebase. I hacked together some ripgrep scripts and put a web front-end on it. It was super hacky but done in a day and a half, got the job done and didn't look half bad. Now I want to wrap that with a script so I can automate a bit more.
The point of the story is that for developing software, you have to know the problem you are trying to solve. If you yourself are experiencing the exact thing, then you know what matters and what doesn't. If you're solving it for some other folks, you have to understand exactly what matters and doesn't for them.
I found it hard to stay on-track when developing side-projects. Then I needed an efficient way to find call-stacks for a good number (~100) of code lines from endpoints (REST, GraphQL, or module public) endpoints in a huge Ruby codebase. I hacked together some ripgrep scripts and put a web front-end on it. It was super hacky but done in a day and a half, got the job done and didn't look half bad. Now I want to wrap that with a script so I can automate a bit more.
The point of the story is that for developing software, you have to know the problem you are trying to solve. If you yourself are experiencing the exact thing, then you know what matters and what doesn't. If you're solving it for some other folks, you have to understand exactly what matters and doesn't for them.