snowpack

We built Druthers to make democratic decisions as a team. It derives results through a ranked-choice voting algorithm that I encourage you to try and game! And, importantly, it is almost no fun whatsoever to use this app without another person, preferably live over the (video) phone or in-person. Druthers' first incarnation was built with Rails and JQuery on a team of four. The second on Firebase, solo. This one passes CRDTs over WebRTC because, of course, and we pair-programmed it. It's is an exercise in moderate minimalism. Smallish build toolchain, fewish dependencies, unambitious UX. We built it with preact[0], snowpack[1], and taste[2]. 0. https://github.com/preactjs/preact 1. https://github.com/FredKSchott/snowpack 2. https://github.com/benchristel/taste

Well being a software contractor, I only get to bill for the time I actually do my job. I don't keep the clock running while I'm on HN for example. On a good day I can work a full 8-10 hours of billable time (which includes not only writing code but researching APIs, documenting infrastructure, etc). But on a day when there's a lot more unknowns that have to be waded through (when it feels like running through molasses), I end up getting distracted more easily and have a harder time hitting 8 hours. Still doable, but I need to do things like work from home (where there's no internet to be distracted by) instead of at the library, and lock myself in my home office so I can focus. Speaking of which, have to get back to this configuration task [1] [2]. I have half a mind to write a blog post about it, in the hopes of inspiring others to help