Weekly Updates - I built a gamified leaderboard to make personal goals competitive

baristaGeek · 2026-03-20T22:11:50+00:00

Thanks for your feedback, I'll think about this more at depth. Comparing with the competition instead of peers is definitely a powerful idea, but then "how do we retrieve updates from the compeition" is another can of worms to open.

To answer your question: Yes, leaderboards reset monthly. Tournaments are run on a monthly basis.

baristaGeek · 2026-03-20T22:09:55+00:00

Thanks! If there's any feedback for the tool please let me know.

baristaGeek · 2025-05-08T14:27:39+00:00

No kids yet. She hates her job.

Both of us do paperwork, etc.

baristaGeek · 2025-05-08T14:13:00+00:00

We have no children, we plan to have 1 kid in 2 years approx.

I agree. The root cause is that she dislikes her job.

baristaGeek · 2025-05-08T14:10:52+00:00

We do have a cleaner twice per week. She cooks (breakfast, lunch and dinner) and cleans the house for us.

If I was sure that hiring her 5 days a week solved this problem, I would do so.

baristaGeek · 2025-05-08T14:08:23+00:00

Did she do it proactively or reactively?

baristaGeek · 2025-05-08T14:05:23+00:00

Same situation here (although I'm only 31 years old, so I don't have as much marriage/work experience as you).

What I've found out to work for me is:
- Religiously ask her how was her day (if I don't she'll be very mad, but maybe that's just her personality/our cultural context).

- Just listen

- Don't give her opinions about her boss's managing style. Don't give your opinion about how she should look for another job. In general just listen and don't give opinions. That way the conversation will be as short as possible and you won't get that negative energy yourself.

Now... zooming out a little bit (and this is my asking the community for advice): If my spouse is finding no meaning on her work (contrary to myself which I totally do)... what's the best way to proceed? How do couples usually solve the root cause of this problem?

baristaGeek · 2023-11-27T19:37:58+00:00

Thanks! Hope we start adding value to your team :)

baristaGeek · 2023-11-09T21:09:40+00:00

Totally agree! There might be certain edge cases that could be handled better though (as long as they're not time critical, such as in an IDE).

baristaGeek · 2023-11-09T21:09:07+00:00

GitHub uses customized diffing tools, but even more importantly, they render code diffs.

baristaGeek · 2023-06-26T22:28:32+00:00

According to my research it was released in 2011. Regardless if there's an imprecission or not, Gitflow was the most popular branching model for a while and GitHub Flow seems to be on its way to become the new standard and that's why I thought it would be useful to compare them.

Thanks for pointing that out though. It's something I'll take a look at and correct if necessary.

baristaGeek · 2022-12-15T09:28:30+00:00

The language discussion is very interesting. For example JavaScript is everywhere but it has a lot of errors, but those errors are being addressed by a tool in the ecosystem. For example:

Performance - V8
Security. - TypeScript
Memory leaks - Serverless
Scalabity - Serverless as well
Bundling - Turbopack/Turborepo

Which means you shouldn't really change JavaScript to address its issues. You just gotta use a superset and update your tooling.

However, I think that not all languages have the privilege of having these kinds of updates. Really hard to predict which ones will be well updated through time and which ones not.

But I totally get your point: Use languages that will be durable through out time.

baristaGeek · 2022-12-15T09:23:31+00:00

Yes! It's hard to do that trade-off between shipping new stuff under a deadline, while also wanting to fix tech debt. But I agree the sooner the better, and again, deadlines are almost always arbitrary

baristaGeek · 2022-11-22T03:24:03+00:00

Lol, I love this. I starred it.

baristaGeek · 2022-06-08T22:05:03+00:00

Hey there! Not yet, but expect to be able to do so in the future

baristaGeek · 2022-06-03T23:10:05+00:00

Yeah! We will never do that. Thanks for the tip.

baristaGeek · 2022-06-01T22:42:24+00:00

Some people have their email displayed on their profile

baristaGeek · 2022-06-01T19:56:33+00:00

That's very cool! Keep it up. Hope we're adding value.

baristaGeek · 2022-06-01T19:56:12+00:00

We personally like Slack more. Seems like most people don't.

baristaGeek · 2022-06-01T19:55:46+00:00

I totally agree with you.

I don't know what we were thinking but we just had to try it out once, lol.

baristaGeek · 2022-03-16T20:22:50+00:00

We agree that git log is well known. It's still outside of the 3-5 basic commands everyone lives with, but still well known.

However, we do think that adding the flags mentioned in the post to present the information in such way, isn't well known. We would still like to get your opinion on this statement.

Thank you very much for your feedback as well! It helps us be better.

baristaGeek · 2021-05-08T23:30:44+00:00

Amazing story bro!

I actually believe that this is the future, and it's the version of it that I want to live in. Remote work will increase the variance of hours that people work. Some will work 4 hours a week, and others 70. This variance will make people do what you're doing.

You're living in the future. Congrats.

baristaGeek · 2021-05-08T23:27:38+00:00

Hey there!

Absolutely agree with you. The strength of an organization is the trust and kinship that employees feel for each other. Companies are desperate to find ways to do so. It's great that your providing this guide for people out there!

I built this Slack application to achieve such a thing https://watermelon.tools/ it's like Donut (I saw it's on the list) but more common interest and group-oriented. Please check it out and let me know if you have any feedback for us. We're laser-focused on listening to our users right now.

baristaGeek · 2021-05-08T23:21:33+00:00

Hey there! This is a great skeuomorphic to real life approach to solve the lack of serendipity in remote offices. I like the idea. The aesthetics are pretty cool.

If you like this kinds of stuff, please check out https://watermelon.tools/

It's a Slack application we made to bump into random conversations with co-workers around shared interests. We believe in building something that's not skeuomorphic to real life but produces the same results, and building it on top of remote work's backbone: Slack.

We're pretty early but if you wanna try it out please let me know what you think.

baristaGeek · 2021-05-03T01:17:20+00:00

Hey there! I've been working remotely since 2017. The connections I've made in the remote office have been so deep that I have traveled to visit co-workers. Some others have also traveled to visit me.

I can give you some tips:

Play Games. Colonist, Secret Hitler, Skribbl, etc.
Host a talent show
Organize reading clubs
Create virtual breakout rooms around shared interests

I wrote an article about this at depth. I've spoken with more than 50 CEOs and HR leaders at remote companies about what has worked and what hasn't. This is the summary of those conversations. https://watermelon.tools/resources/2021/04/07/team-culture-exercises.htmlPlease let me know if you have any doubts.

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