The Plain-Text Team
Added 2023-10-13 15:54:14 +0000 UTCAll good teams are alike; each bad team is bad in its own way. (to paraphrase Tolstoy)
Software is an incredible thing. Combined with the internet, a small team of friends can change the world overnight. Every company, no matter what their industry, must now run a tech team, even if only to maintain their website.
So why are they all so bad at it?
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Here's the public version of this video, thanks to all the lovely patrons who gave me feedback last week! I've trimmed the fat, read up on the difference between Odysseus and Ulysses (THANKS ROMAN EMPIRE) and downplayed the emphasis on GitHub, and focussed a little more on git.
I've shaved so much off the video, that I have enough to revisit this in the future, if I want!
(if you do nothing else, listen to 3:00!)
Hope you like it! I'm already researching the next one <3
Comments
I would have never known about this had I not followed you. Recently started venturing down the opensource and programming rabbit hole. I have been using workflowy for about 6 months along with Arc Browser and customised google sheets to reorganise my approach to projects, goals and life in general (being historically prone to drifting and overwhelm in between bouts of manic work volumes and burning out). Arc Browser is useful for me primarily for the way I can now have compartmentalised "spaces" for each project or life area (and associated logins/extensions/blocked sites for work based spaces) then when I am in free time mode and it's ok to watch youtube for leisure time at the end of the day - it feels good and like it's a well deserved treat instead of being tempted all day. I am definitely going to be playing with Obsidian to replace workflowy given it has infinite canvas and I understand "outlining" plugins will do the trick to essentially replace workflowy. Switching from OSX to Linux....that will have to wait for now until the next evolution of my system. One step at a time lol. Apologies for long comment. Love your content, it's refreshing and original. All the best!
StHubbins
2024-06-14 01:21:22 +0000 UTCSpeaking of regulatory. SOC2 (unsure right term). Essentially any code to be merged to main branch. No code on main written in other way than merging. Any merge MUST have 1+ approval by other than contributor. But SOC is a financial security organization, not software engineering. So generating a CHANGELOG, bumping versions, matching dependent’s packages version too all to main. Not easy. Microsoft wrote a cool tool for this. Rush. It helps writing many small packages, systems to avoid copy-pasting large configuration files. Allowing systematic and reliable builds (i.e. rebuild foo at version 1.1.1 depending on local bar, baz ALWAYS work. Even 10 y from that release.). And work for hundreds of packages and more. In a large team, many packages, and that. Not easy to “perform” as per “performance tracking” (hell!), with more meetings. How do you handle small modules and release schedules, configuration in Rust.
Renoir Boulanger
2024-06-13 21:58:13 +0000 UTCYes, Plain text organisation with Obsidian is how I run all my projects and life!
No Boilerplate
2024-02-27 14:57:19 +0000 UTCHey, do you think this is a good system for personal productivity? Or is there a better approach?
Naymul Islam
2024-02-22 06:56:47 +0000 UTCI really like gitjournal! I tried to use it for a mobile editor for my obsidian second brain, but I couldn't get the richness I was hoping for, same problem with orgzly for org mode - fine for editing markdown files one at a time, but to build a system on it, customisation is needed. (my obsidian video is here btw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbsAQSIKQXk)
No Boilerplate
2023-12-22 21:06:10 +0000 UTCHey just for anyone reading this after I began migrating to this one app I found that's been very useful is gitjournal, it creates a note quickly using YYYY-MM-DD, the file itself contains metadata like exact create time, last modified etc and it auto syncs to a git repo so i can on my desktop quite easily do 'grep -H "keyword" *.md' and get not only the line I'm looking for but the date it occurred I also keep a quick and easy checklist in the repos readme that I also interact with via gitjournal
ash
2023-12-22 20:19:26 +0000 UTCOh wonderful, thank k you so much for your support! Yes, github is a sticking point for many, but we live in a world where over 80% of all version control is on github. (based on What limit information I can find out)
No Boilerplate
2023-10-18 11:31:48 +0000 UTCThanks for the minimal practical approach. Sometimes you see very minimal power user approaches that go to extremes (eg. don't use GH because it's owned by MS) and those don't scale well. I think you propose a nice balance, can't wait to try this the next time I have to build a team from scratch. PS: This is the video that I discovered on YT that drove me to become a humble supporter, thank you for your work ;)
X378
2023-10-18 11:21:52 +0000 UTC
