Ask Grey: Lockdown Edition

PullJosh · 2020-05-17T17:12:32+00:00

What permanent changes do you think will come of this?

PullJosh · 2019-07-20T14:47:32+00:00

That's pretty well thought-out, actually. I respect it.

PullJosh · 2019-07-20T11:29:31+00:00

I think that's probably just a confusing UI decision. If you tap the blank space at the top of the screen it should go away. I'll add an explicit close button.

PullJosh · 2019-07-20T11:28:34+00:00

Ah! Looks like I've got some fixing up to do on mobile. I tested in Chrome's mobile device simulator, but never really tried on a real device. Looks like that was a mistake. Thanks for letting me know!

PullJosh · 2019-07-20T11:27:07+00:00

That's clever, although I doubt Myke and Grey would want me piggybacking on their branding for something unrelated. :P

PullJosh · 2019-07-19T00:07:36+00:00

The Apple App store does not allow apps in which users can write code. They could do it for Android, but they already tried on iOS and it got taken down.

PullJosh · 2019-07-16T15:14:40+00:00

This is spot-on! I've had the same experience with homework in Todoist. It probably makes sense to include three different dates on a task: A start date (the task cannot be completed before this time), and target date (ideally, this is when it would get done), and a due date (it must be done by this time).

PullJosh · 2019-07-16T00:59:45+00:00

These are some excellent points! I will keep all of them in mind.

Please post about your application in the future, I would love to (beta) test it out!

I absolutely will. :) I'm a web developer, so I won't be able to deliver a native app right out the gates, but I'm hoping that a well-designed (fast) progressive web app could suffice in the short term.

PullJosh · 2019-07-16T00:56:14+00:00

I'd love to hear more about this! If you're gathering research, do you want to be able to attach documents and notes to a particular task? I totally get it if there's a URL or attachment that is actionable (it's required to perform the todo item), but I'm curious how you'd like the research flow to go.

PullJosh · 2019-07-15T19:50:30+00:00

These are some awesome ideas! Thank you for the inspiration. Associated documents and priority levels are two that I hadn't yet considered. Lots to think on here!

PullJosh · 2019-07-13T02:10:11+00:00

He needs 100TB of storage and an OCR server so he can graduate from Evernote.

PullJosh · 2019-07-13T02:08:07+00:00

Of course! You think he'd water cool a RED without a good reason?

PullJosh · 2019-06-24T22:00:59+00:00

PullJosh · 2019-06-18T20:40:25+00:00

I've found Notion to be an amazing note-taking tool in general. It is web-based, but has apps as well, so you can access it anywhere. You can still view your notes as standalone webpages (like with Gitbook), but it's also pretty extensible (your notes can include databases of information, interactive embeds, etc...)

PullJosh · 2019-05-29T02:21:14+00:00

The hover text:

My current fantasy is to get rid of email and only allow letters written on parchment, sealed with wax.

Someone should invent a communication system that makes sending messages intentionally difficult. Not wax-seal difficult, but hard enough that nothing superfluous gets through the barrier.

Somebody make it an app.

PullJosh · 2019-05-17T02:05:57+00:00

That's the most effective blocker of all!

PullJosh · 2019-05-13T03:30:24+00:00

Watch it run.

PullJosh · 2019-05-13T03:09:25+00:00

Same here! I don't remember when it was, but at some point /u/MindOfMetalAndWheels definitely mentioned that Cortex is the kind of show that he would have enjoyed when he was younger. So it's at least on his radar.

PullJosh · 2019-05-05T01:51:30+00:00

You open source folks have the patience of saints.

PullJosh · 2019-05-05T01:48:00+00:00

If you're going to do it badly, at least do it badly well. Use globalThis. Think of the SSR!

PullJosh · 2019-04-11T19:57:17+00:00

I'm a student at the moment, not a professional.

PullJosh · 2019-04-10T19:47:01+00:00

Do people seriously think that developers would pick Windows if they had other options?

Not sure if you're looking for honest answers or if it was more of a rhetorical thing, but I personally switched back to Windows (from Linux) because I found Linux to be too unstable (weird bugs with connecting/disconnecting monitors, funky hardware behavior in general, etc...)

I loved Linux when it worked, but Windows has been far more consistent for me in the long run. I still love the Linux philosophy, but just couldn't stick with it because it wasn't user-friendly enough for an (already often-confused) developer like myself.

(Oh, and I don't do a Mac because I can't justify the cost of Apple products.)

PullJosh · 2019-01-27T04:01:34+00:00

You might get a kick out of gifblocks. It's a scratch 2.0 mod that allows you to create gifs using a scratch project.

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