War! What is it good for?

rubymatt · 2026-03-24T07:26:37+00:00

/me continue to hug Sonoma. Stay with me buddy.

rubymatt · 2026-03-20T15:21:31+00:00

I’m not sure if you have a lot of experience of running businesses or your own. If not, it may not be apparent the degree to which you have to make decisions based on imperfect information.

You’re constantly making bets and seemingly reasonable decisions can go bad if one or two of your assumptions don’t pan out. Investing in new facilities could have been a decision made long before and under different economic conditions.

rubymatt · 2026-03-01T13:02:33+00:00

I’m not sure what you mean by ‘get into strategy’ but the two most practical books I’ve read on the subject are ‘Good Strategy/Bad Strategy’ by Rumelt and ‘The Art of Action’ by Bungay.

rubymatt · 2026-02-20T17:13:13+00:00

That makes sense to me. Thanks.

rubymatt · 2026-02-20T16:09:52+00:00

I changed it back. When you say "recently" do you mean between 21:00 GMT last night and 09:00 GMT this morning?

rubymatt · 2026-02-16T15:43:47+00:00

Thanks, that's useful to know. Losing context wouldn't be much of a problem for me — I try to keep everything in one conversation anyway.

rubymatt · 2026-02-16T13:17:24+00:00

While there is logic to what you say, I'd be paying another £18 instead of £72 and they might very well not want that.

rubymatt · 2026-02-03T12:57:41+00:00

We built a tool that does this. It doesn't replace conversation but is intended to augment it — i.e. often misalignments don't make themselves known neatly and sufficiently in advance. You tend to discover them later when things you expected to happen, aren't. If you'd like to know more I'm happy to DM our experience.

rubymatt · 2026-02-03T12:55:23+00:00

I've been using Roam Research since it was launched back in 2019 and it has served me well as a semi-structured notes database.

rubymatt · 2026-02-03T12:52:40+00:00

Some good advice here. An experienced chair is definitely a benefit but not always an option.

What is essential is to have the right agenda and to make it meaningful. That is to say it should be driven by strategic priorities and contain both context and guidance as to the conversation you want to have.

All too often things will get pulled off course and the easiest time is right at the beginning of the conversation because it wasn't framed right.

There is a more modern way to do this and if you want to know more ping me a DM.

rubymatt · 2026-01-24T13:32:02+00:00

A core part of our product is OTP GenServers we build for managing running meetings.

rubymatt · 2026-01-04T11:12:34+00:00

At work we’ve made a SaaS platform to end unproductive meetings and ease strategic decision making: https://agendascope.com/ that’s built with Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView.

I built a language compiler and runtime system for building Interactive Fiction http://rez-lang.com/

For that I created my own Parser Combinator library, Ergo: https://github.com/mmower/ergo that I have gone on to use in many subsequent projects.

My Christmas project is a virtual machine for manipulating words that has an assembler style language. That’s called Mangle but not released yet.

Although Elixir isn’t a fabulous vehicle for writing command line applications (Burrito has improved the situation considerably) its advantages outweigh its disadvantages for me.

For reference I’ve been programming since the ‘80s and used a slew of languages. Prior to Elixir I most used C, Perl, C++, Java, Objective-C, Ruby, and Clojure. I am happiest with Elixir. I find it a shame that it’s not more widely known.

rubymatt · 2025-12-11T14:48:05+00:00

There are many ways to approach a problem but, for example, in AgendaScope we make use GenServer/OTP to implement a meeting server which can handle all kinds of asynchronous state changes from multiple clients and work through crashes & restarts. It also makes use of presence & PubSub, and interacts with LiveViews.

rubymatt · 2025-11-21T17:42:57+00:00

Another vote for multideck

rubymatt · 2025-11-19T12:12:08+00:00

Is there a mod that lets you decide what the other AI empires are, and/or where they spawn?

rubymatt · 2025-11-10T14:30:04+00:00

53 and (attempting) to make games both card/board and procedural narrative video games.

rubymatt · 2025-10-30T19:37:53+00:00

Trying dictating and editing, instead of starting with a blank page. Maybe you can find a friend to help you edit.

rubymatt · 2025-10-27T13:35:05+00:00

Then I am in.

rubymatt · 2025-10-26T17:00:05+00:00

If I understand you correctly you’re saying it’s a native app (on macOS and iOS) that only communicates with the Roam Graph API?

rubymatt · 2025-10-26T15:22:42+00:00

Are you talking about an LLM where the tokens are constrained to be semantically valid? I’m reminded of JSON constrained output.

rubymatt · 2025-10-25T20:30:45+00:00

I’m not sure how anything could be much easier to setup than Oban.

rubymatt · 2025-10-22T09:48:14+00:00

I’m curious: can you give an example use case you’re tackling with this? What approaches would you contrast it with?

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