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Re:Beautiful Software: Christopher Alexander's research initiative on ... on Friday December 16, 2022 @04:06PM (#34020382)
+1 to The Oregon Experiment. It was the first I read and I think gave a great taste of a lot of the ideas in a way that was reasonably understandable. I wrote up some notes at https://www.garethrees.co.uk/2020/03/08/book-notes-the-orego...
Re:Beautiful Software: Christopher Alexander's research initiative on ... on Friday December 16, 2022 @04:00PM (#34020292)
In 2020-2021 I participated in the Building Beauty Online course (the architecture side) and the Beautiful Software seminar. I wrote up as much as I could:

https://www.garethrees.co.uk/building-beauty/

Re:Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders? on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:13PM (#23405883)
Basically dump everything in ~/Downloads and then a couple of scripts to archive it off to ~/doc/YYYY-MM every month, then every now and then I might sort that into ~/archive/home/doc and ~/archive/work/doc.

Got a few context-specific directories; ~/src, ~/screenshots, ~/notes.

Search using Finder, find or ripgrep.

I wrote a bit more about it at https://www.garethrees.co.uk/2019/11/24/filesystem-organisat...

Re:Ask HN: How can I automatically scan and catalog a mountain of books? on Sunday May 05, 2019 @06:36AM (#19832121)
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/datacurator/ are good resources for this kind of thing.
Re:Ask HN: What did you do after quitting the IT industry and how have... on Saturday January 07, 2017 @06:10AM (#13343496)
These guys (https://www.patreon.com/LaVagabonde) were/are running a competition to invite a handful of paetrons on board for a week or two. Seems like people go for it (https://youtu.be/zKwjPr9vINM?t=13m42s). GL!
Re:Amon - self-hosted server and web app monitoring toolkit on Saturday October 06, 2012 @12:27PM (#4620914)
"Amon supports only Rails 3." (http://amon.cx/guide/clients/ruby)

Is that the Ruby client Ramon or Amon itself?

Re:Rails Is Not For Beginners on Thursday December 08, 2011 @04:45AM (#3328454)
Like you said, I get people to use Sinatra for a while before getting in to Rails. It gets them in to MVC style apps while keeping things simple. Definitely recommend it as a stepping stone to Rails.
Re:Ask HN: I cannot afford to scale… on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @07:12AM (#3181496)
If you can't charge more then you need to spend less time doing the work. Is there a way you can automate your process more?
Re:Hackdays UK: List Hackdays in the UK (alpha) on Saturday September 10, 2011 @08:58PM (#2982914)
Like I said, was thrown together in a lunchbreak!
Re:Hackdays UK: List Hackdays in the UK (alpha) on Saturday September 10, 2011 @08:58PM (#2982913)
Heh probably because I posted it here! Will sort it soon :)
Re:Make Your Welcome Emails Better on Sunday September 04, 2011 @08:10AM (#2959275)
They're probably (almost definitely) both automated emails. The point is that they're a bit better than "Hi. Click this link. Buy some more stuff from us."