Well, you asked for our opinions, that was mine.
That still looks like closed source though, and these days folks view such things with suspicion, especially for small projects that are generally foss. There’s a lot of people unwilling to run stuff they view as heavily AI authored, or potentially malicious, and not having the source out front to look at is going to put some folk off.
But as I say, it’s just my opinion. Hope it works out for you.
Pomodoro is an interesting technique, and it’s something I’d quite like to try.
But I’m struggling with a couple of things here;
I’m a developer (well, sysadmin,but I write a lot of software both for work and as a hobby). I don’t see your method as viable, but perhaps I’m wrong. I wouldn’t pay for such a tool when there are free alternatives. I can’t see how much work you’ve put into yours, but this sounds like something simple that wouldn’t take long to write, vibe or not. I’m also a big fan of FOSS, both as a user and an author.
So basically, what’s special enough for it not to be FOSS?
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Same as everything else in life - like the bits that are useful to you and ignore the rest.
As for doing what you’re told at work, who said we had to like it provided it’s a reasonable request?
I’m at a point where I must adapt
What’s wrong with adapting? The one constant in life is that things change. This is a change and you’re not the only person who has faced their job changing - at least you still have it. Adapt or go raise goats.
Nice - always fun to glimpse someone else’s workflow and how they’ve approached some of the same problems.
As a fellow lazy person (I use this term advisedly - lazy people work hard to find the easiest way to do something well) I like the thinking that I can see here. Thanks for sharing.
Great read of something I was unaware about, and I love the principle behind this.
That’s a really good article and shows how one person with a strong motivation can actually make a different through identifying a need and then working to solve it.
I found the technical aspects and reasoning interesting too, and your comments. Hard to disagree with any of them. I spent some time playing with the egui demo also - quite an impressive featureset.
Thanks for posting. Made me think.
Good write up, but Docker’s also useful beyond having the ability to scale, portability being one. With some websites having a huge variety of dependencies now, keeping that all together and knowing it will run on multiple hosts is a big benefit.
(Downside, because nothing is ever for free: You then have to maintain those dependencies and update the image, rather than letting the OS keep everything up to date)
We use docker a lot at work, but not for scaling and not with any cloud provider.
Ah, so it is. Now I understand why you’re not putting the code up front on the github project page for everyone to see.
For me, that means something where the code is obviously AI authored.
I’m not anti-AI, I use it all the time when coding. But when the human responsible for that code, and there must always be one, doesn’t understand every single line of that code and why it’s there, then it’s unwise to use that code. LLMs can churn out perfectly good code within their current scope, but they cannot (yet) produce cohesive and maintainable code that doesn’t grow out of scope. And when an experienced coder sits down and reviews that code, there will be a high WTF/minute ratio.