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i got a side project mirubato https://mirubato.com/, a web app tracking instrument practice logs. there were wild ideas such as enable AI training, grading, managing score, practice plans, and such, but in the end, i removed most of features. not only because it takes more time (i am only using a part of my free time to work on this) and effort, talent, plannings, but also because during vibe (yes, most of coding done by claude code) i realized that it still requires ultra deep thinking to design the minimal minimal UI i would like.

now the foundation is done, i've learnt a lot. i'm actually eating dog food by using it to track my own classical guitar practice everyday. i am pausing a while to process the requirements by ultra deep thinking to understand what would be helpful and how to shape the product.

LLMs such as codex and claude code definitely helped a lot, but I guess human beings' opinions would be more helpful - after all, the tool is made for humans instead of being used by claude code.

I would also like to hear when you start a project, if you know your audience are not super close to AI, would you still consider to enable the AI feature for them?

I stopped drinking from 03/2013. I found the process has very few to do with alcohol itself. It'll a lot of communication with yourself.

1. Since you already asked for the approach, it's relative easy to persuade yourself that you want to cut it out altogether. Either because of you don't enjoy the foggy head or like me, stomach bugs. There could be no real reason at all. For the substance of alcohol, you might want to cut it out completely not because it's unhealthy, on the contrary, it might even be healthy. so what. the most important is your decision and determination to take back control.

2. get rid off all the alcohols at home but keep a couple of cans of beer in the refrigerator. make a sticker annotating the date and write down firmly and warmly that 'I don't need it. I quit drinking from 11/10/2022'. Look at them and tell yourself that 'I don't need it. bye beer.' close the refrigerator and tell yourself you're amazing. Do this every once a while.

there's a lot of time of weakness. It's hard mostly because people forget their decision, or not taking the decision seriously enough. sometimes, I need to sit down and tell myself that alcohol is a substance same as butter, good or bad, it doesn't matter any more since i don't need it. i decided to get rid of it from my life. if this worked for me, i will add another sticker telling myself that i success on 04/2013, 05/2013 .. how amazing i was! especially when the stickers piled up thick. the stickers also had some crazy things like 'damn you', 'bye dear bear' .. etc. i bet someone could write a app for it. but stickers on the can works perfectly.

The mind game worked for me. Eventually after a few years, I get rid off those old cans and stickers as well. during the time i can sit with my friends and watching them drinking beer. IF someone asked me to drink, I would tell them the same simple decision. I was a social drinker, quit drinking also endorsed me strong confidence to tell them my true thought - I am same good or even better without the cold beer. I will usually have iced water and chew the ice cubes if i have to drink something.

Honestly all my friends support me quite well. and didn't challenge me too often :D I would suggest that except for those two cans of cues, never get too close to cold beer before your mind wired with the unnecessary of booze.

Good luck!

With my pixel 5 running android 12/13, the similar mode is called 'extreme battery saver' - it felt like that's available for all android phones? I disabled most apps in extreme battery saver mode except for the podcast and map app. Then kept the phone running in extreme battery saver mode 24/7. only enabling email app temporarily during lunch hours. - running like that, a full charge usually lasts more than 2 days and the phone is super quiet and fast.

the proxy/pac file version of self-control:

  https://gist.github.com/3907633

[pac file in this gist is merely a demo, please clone it and add your sites-to-blackhole-during-work]

the advantages of using a pac file over /etc/hosts are

* you can safely version control it

* you dont need to install extra software (at least on mac/windows)

* you can gist your determination

for more details of pac file, please dig into the reference link of pacfile:

  http://findproxyforurl.com/pac-functions/

there could be fun to use weekdayRange/timeRange to specify exact hours you want to be away from any self-distraction.