• Author: 2023-12-08_20-16-simon-willison
• Increase your productivity on personal projects with comprehensive docs and automated tests - DCUS → DEVONthink Archive
  • The Perfect Commit → DEVONthink Archive
  • Using PRs and squashing commits is similar
    • What to include in a commit message? 2023-12-09_13-16
  • GitHub issues can be archived → https://github.com/dogsheep/github-to-sqlite
  • Using GitHub as Zettelkasten
  • 2:58
    • Perfect commit
  • 4:00
    • Commit changes of one thing
      • We don’t need to create a PR if the commit is atomic 2023-12-09_13-19
  • 5:30
    • Incrementally building tests
  • 7:32
    • Documentation should live in the same repo as the code 2023-12-09_13-27
    • Catch missing updates in PRs
  • 8:55
    • Documentation tests
  • 10:10
    • Issue threads
  • 12:10
    • It’s like Bike planning
  • 13:40
    • Timestamped documentation
    • A timeline of changes
    • Keeping an issue thread ensures we have a background information on a code change → 2023-12-09_13-35
  • 14:08
    • Issue driven development
  • 14:55
    • Have this for Shortcuts
    • I can commit and export a shortcut
    • Keep them in one repository
    • I can keep automation scripts in Git repositories 2023-12-09_16-05
  • 15:20
    • Get back to something when you have notes
    • Programmers complain about distractions
    • When we keep a journal we automatically keep bookmarks for ourselves 2023-12-09_16-10
  • 16:40
    • Issues for everything, even life stuff
    • At this state, this is a project management app, like Things
    • I keep stuff like this privately, not in GitHub issues
    • I link it using Hookmark
  • 16:56
    • Have Markdown files about projects?
    • It is a way to journal
    • Use my Zettelkasten for journaling using Markdown files
    • Link with Hookmark to a Things project
    • The Archive would be awesome for this
      • 2023-12-08_15-56-switching-to-my-zettelkasten-and-as-a-journal
  • 18:14
    • Publish Markdown files to GitHub issues
    • I can create a new comment to have a way to I document my stuff
    • It will make my work more transparent
  • 19:30
    • Have an output about what did you done
    • Journal about what you did
    • Twitter threads
      • Or small status blog posts
    • PR description
    • Get a blog

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