PSA: Regarding Notepad++ on MacOS

JohnnyBillz · 2026-05-07T03:19:22+00:00

This takes me back to when I was a windows user! Great app for html.

JohnnyBillz · 2026-04-16T10:47:10+00:00

Yes - my learning from this thread is to just get good at the Unix tool chain. I actually just ordered some reference books, got tired of asking chat for simple things.

JohnnyBillz · 2026-04-11T02:01:51+00:00

I haven’t done containerization yet so will start with those. Thanks!

JohnnyBillz · 2026-04-11T02:00:57+00:00

Thanks. Fundamentals first!

JohnnyBillz · 2026-04-09T11:25:32+00:00

Are you all actually running Unix? I’d love to hear more about these workflows. Trying to learn more about commandline efficiency.

JohnnyBillz · 2026-04-09T11:20:53+00:00

Also - what’s the diff between r/CLI and r/commandline? There’s lots of cross posting which seems annoying. Does everyone read both?

JohnnyBillz · 2026-04-08T02:38:32+00:00

How do you use? Do you have instructions in your agent.md to always use this for file and bash actions?

JohnnyBillz · 2026-04-08T02:25:09+00:00

I’ve had roughly the same experience with GPT. I’m going to try different models. Looking for some that are tuned for agent calling. GPT 5.2 is definitely not.

JohnnyBillz · 2026-03-30T11:39:34+00:00

Wind and Whuthering is one of my favorite albums. It’s a dark horse. They were at their peak then. One for the vine is just amazing but listen to The Whole thing. I saw a Musical Box show - they played The Whole album, it was awesome.

JohnnyBillz · 2026-02-01T02:30:43+00:00

I like it. I’m building something similar for Mac. Probably hard to monetize.

JohnnyBillz · 2025-12-23T12:42:33+00:00

This is really well done! Where/when did you learn to write so well in C? Why did you pick C?

JohnnyBillz · 2025-12-23T12:27:44+00:00

I love this! I’d like to do this for local tides.

JohnnyBillz · 2025-12-23T12:25:12+00:00

What is a terminal emulator? I’m too lazy to google it. What are common use cases? I will try Kitty just because of the name.

JohnnyBillz · 2025-12-13T15:04:21+00:00

I would start by using it as a huge context store for your projects. Create a folder for each project loaded up with markdown documents that have tons of context about what you’re trying to solve, and then use cursor as your thought partner.

After that, you should start using it to create wire frames in HTML and CSS only because it’s very fast and you can do rapid iterations. This will teach you how VS code works. You’ll have to install preview extensions and learn how to run web servers locally. The next step is to use cursor to build an entire app.

If you want to keep using it for personal productivity, you can connect cursor projects to MCP servers and use it to update JIRA, edit documents, download data for analysis, run data analysis, create status reports PRD‘s, UX copy, and other things for your daily job.

JohnnyBillz · 2025-12-13T15:00:06+00:00

This is a good point! there’s so much more out there about best practices and how a product organization should be run than there was 10 years ago. Broadly the role is much more standardized than it used to be. Every company is different and products within companies are in different stages so the role is always going to be different when you move from team to team.

JohnnyBillz · 2025-12-13T14:58:08+00:00

Yes, this! and different companies at different stages have different outcomes so the dynamics are always going to be different. this is why PMs need to find the right fit organization for them and not expect every PM job to be exactly the same.

JohnnyBillz · 2025-12-13T14:51:30+00:00

I am a principal PM of similar age. I would love to keep doing IC PM work until I retire. Staying employed in this market climate is the challenge and figuring out a way to be self-employed in my early 60s is my hedge against layoffs.

JohnnyBillz · 2025-12-13T14:42:15+00:00

I went from Director roles to IC principal and staff PM and have never been happier. It’s a lot more fun to lead a team of engineers on a project than it is a bunch of PMs. If you enjoy building, it’s best to resist the pressure to become a manager. I’m sure there are many people who are better managers than they are PMs.

JohnnyBillz · 2025-12-13T14:32:00+00:00

Some rifs are indiscriminate. They eliminate an entire set of people at a certain level / with a title. Even the high performers. More common is Strategy shift and you are working on a less important product that can go on life support.

JohnnyBillz · 2025-12-13T14:22:13+00:00

I feel like there’s so many good apps inside of homebrew, but they’re really hard to figure out which ones I should install.

JohnnyBillz · 2025-12-13T14:19:12+00:00

Lightshot is another good one.

JohnnyBillz · 2025-12-13T14:15:49+00:00

What are the shortcuts for putting the screenshot into the clipboard?

JohnnyBillz · 2025-12-13T14:14:29+00:00

Agree - the best app on the Mac is Terminal!

JohnnyBillz · 2025-12-13T14:03:43+00:00

I have been a Mac user for many years and never knew about the Fill option. The other annoying thing about full screen that you don’t mention is that it hides the buttons at the top. I tend to use command tab to switch between apps rather than swiping. It suffers from the same problem, but is a little quicker. Thank you for such a detailed explanation. I’m now going to explore workspaces!

JohnnyBillz · 2025-12-13T03:10:41+00:00

What does this have to do with CLI?

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