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Re:.plan on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @10:58PM (#29249163)
I'm having trouble finding a canonical definition of .plan style files. From Carmack it seems like:

* complete

+ new task

notes

Is that it? Is there somewhere the file format is defined?

Re:Embrace the Grind on Friday April 09, 2021 @07:15PM (#26757348)
I have to agree. There is nothing more demotivating for me than documenting a bug thoroughly, only to have it returned to me two months later as part of a bulk 'we didn't get to this in time' cleanup.

Issues for those teams usually 'best effort' isolation going forward, which compounds the issue.

Re:Ask HN: Burned out, depressed, cannot do anything on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @09:06AM (#13426344)
> I just look at the screen and do not know what to do next.

When I encounter this situation I try to remember that someone has probably solved the same (or a very similar) issue before. There are enormous amounts of open source code out there that might give you some inspiration. Take 5 minutes to sit back and search for inspiration from similar work. Don't blindly copy-paste, but understand how the author solved the problem and you in turn will have some ideas for solving your own.

Re:Show HN: A sock service that keeps things simple on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @06:50PM (#11442919)
This may be pedantic, but there's a couple typos on https://bulkblacksocks.com/socks.html which make me think twice about signing up.

'Heals' is a pretty critical one. Even though the service is dead-simple I want to trust my socks source knows the distinction.