Universal Task Estimation Table

easy-peasy – 1h
easy – 2h
simple – 4h
kinda simple – 6h
fine – 8h
sorta fine – 12h
idk – 16h
idk, kinda weird – 20h
kinda hard – 24h
hard – 30h
very hard – 40h
oh fuck – 48h
total fuck-up – 60h
some next-level fuckery – 80h
easy, I think – 100h

day 7 on my no vape journey. there is a nicotine-shaped hole in my soul no amount of Kiev Cake can fill

I love the smell of refactoring in the morning

Funny story. I haven't done any coding up until my mid-twenties, at which point I was doing PhD in neuroscience and I had to learn how to analyse collected data in Matlab (yes, Matlab was my first language, which is both hilarious and sad).

man drag and drop functionality is a beast. a dev on our team spent 3 weeks trying to transition from the deprecated beautifuldnd to dndkit.com and we're still wrapping our heads around how to do feature parity. I had to step in to implement a minimal example, and it is still tough 🤔

2024 was really productive for me; I've learned so much both in terms of hard skills, management and being a founder. I am glad I also had the time to contribute individually on a regular basis.

t.me/danokhlopkov asked to list the books which have transformed your understanding of the world. went through my audible and goodreads to jog my memory, here are the results. 1/5

#BookRecommendations #Reading #Books #PersonalDevelopment #Science #NonFiction
#BooksToRead #Booklist #BookThread

with AI, companies quickly generate thousands of self-promoting articles on any topic with high SEO, and drown the good stuff. in some areas up to 80% of top search results are AI-generated, inaccurate and poorly written articles. it is harder to find high quality information.

why am I not worried?

Having a blast with adventofcode.com, trying to solve it in TS without cursor suggestions. A great way to remind myself basic data structure operations in the age of LLM programming lol