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You can't ever guarantee revenue, but you can lose clients by missing your promises, creating costs, or belonging to the past. As a freelancer, do the opposite of those. everyonewantsprogress.com/0054-guarant...

Jason has been reporting for the resistance, and I'm glad he is (it must take a toll). Imagine if this show were suddenly cancelled though? Anyway, it looks amazing.

Accountability: Did a little more design work on this today. Just sketches, but it's for a part of the app that look pretty horrible right now.

The trick here is to make sure decorating elements happens only once (idempotency), and so Turbo restores aren’t re-applying changes. ie. don’t inject another tooltip Done via a different data attribute after decoration applied. Return early if data attribute found.

There's a way, in creating Hotwire-based components systems, to respect the small native components (a, button, input) without recreating them completely... ... while still adding rich, React-like UI polish.

You hesitate to recommend, not because you lack reasons, but because precision, truth and honesty are important to you. So use the idea of "when" and write an honest recommendation. People will like your recommendations because of their precision. everyonewantsprogress.com/0053-the-hon...

"Don't reinvent the wheel" in programming, up till recently, was meant to shame developers from building something if there was a dependency doing the job. But dependencies were often not too great either. Now: supervise the LLM building it for you, and don't add that dependency.

We need more founders posting on Bluesky 😀 Reply to this with • who you are • what you're working on • something you need help with I'm Pete, a self-taught entrepreneur from Scotland I'm doing social media for clients today and writing my High Signal newsletter I don't need help right now

Replace your social media app icon with Owl, and micro journal there instead. Healthy dopamine hits. It also looks GORGEOUS

I think I've figured out an important design bit here, allowing to show in the thread whose other notes you see... Reading With: - Your own previous reading - Readers You Picked - an Accountability Group called "Alpha" (??)

Coming this Saturday on Everyone Wants Progress, an article that I recommend if... If you... hesitate to recommend. It'll do the job. Saturday morning, in your time zone: everyonewantsprogress.com

I'm not the only one

Well what do you know. There’s this: gist.github.com/peterc/214aa...

One thing I don't know/haven't seen is a way to have one-pagers describing all the ways a starter kit differs from, say, standard Rails, for Cursor to ingest on each request. Like a .cursorrules but, longer (?) and on the web someplace.

"We are in the era of the starter kit and the component library" -- @calebporzio.bsky.social on @thepanel.bsky.social Working on this in the Rails space, I hope it's true. Josh Pigford might well ride Cursor's preferences to complete apps, but people "hire" starter kits to learn/hedge career bets

People who are "killing it". What an odd expression! It's not necessary to be "killing it", and you probably want to do the opposite anyway. everyonewantsprogress.com/0052-not-kil...

Update on this design Going with a chat-like left-right cards, with a subtle timeline in the middle What about the simile book spine for the "book" title-author?

We are destroying software: antirez.com/news/145

"Ideas often come while reading a book. (…) Ideas occur when dissimilar universes collide. (…) Ideas fear experts, but they adore beginners' minds. A little awareness is a good thing." — Seth Godin, The Practice

🙋‍♂️ Who here has ever played Mathable, the Scrabble-looking arithmetic tabletop? I've been thinking about writing about it in a blog post...

Remember the old episodes from "The Distance" podcast? I wonder how many of those highlighted companies are still around.

"We have to put food on our family, as George W put it" 😆 @mostlytechnical.com

Listening in on @aaronfrancis.com on Mostly Technical describing Fusion's static parsing of (not actually evaluating) PHP into his built step... Ian: "It sounds crazy but not actually that crazy" It's crazy. Such a brazen toolkit. Rich Hickey is probably shaking his head somewhere in disapproval.

Respect to Julian. He's doing the good, hard work.

Can I ask your opinion? I'm going to design the ReadWith notes timeline away from the default aesthetic, and I have two directions: 1) Keep a chat-like bubbles layout, or 2) Move to a timeline-like layout Currently:

Imagine if you didn’t have to carry around those prejudices about sales… And you could just sell the way you were supposed to, in the first place? everyonewantsprogress.com/0051-prejudi...