Code, Strings, and Keys

Category: productivity

  • The Artisan’s Return: How LLMs Are Making Us Forget We Already Solved This

    There’s a particular kind of satisfaction that comes from asking an LLM to generate a solution to your problem. The code appears, seemingly tailored to your exact needs. It… mostly works. You ship it. But somewhere in the back of your mind, a voice whispers: “Didn’t someone solve this already?” They did. Probably a decade…

  • Tracking HipChat Activity with AppleScript

    The Problem Chat tools are great for being able to work remotely, at least until you get bombarded by one chat after another. I’ve often wondered if I could come up with a way to track who my chats are with and how much time was spent chatting with each person. My initial attempts involved…

  • Remember the Milk is on Twitter!

    This may be old news to many RTM/Twitter users, but it was a pleasant surprise to me today. As I was perusing the Remember the Milk keyboard shortcuts, I noticed that at the bottom, under “Services”, Twitter was listed. So I clicked on the link, and the “Services / Remember the Milk for Twitter page”…