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Latest dispatch · issue nº 507

Dumber and More Dangerous than Ralph Wiggum: The Dunking Bird Method

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Introduction Do you remember that episode of the Simpsons where he uses a little dunking bird toy to defraud his employer? Yeah. Like that but with prompts. Here’s the thing. Some of my coding agents, no matter how “dangerously” I like to live, still stop every 10 minutes, needing my...

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Announcing TPS

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Announcing TPS (Team Planning Simulator) (see, it generates TPS Reports ha!) Source and download here -> TPS And hey, as it’s client-side, how about a Live Version Team Planning Simulator Reports (TPS Reports) is a quick report generator to help...

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Announcing Labrync

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Announcing Labrync (like labrynth + ncurses) Source and download here -> Labrync Labrync is a passive or active little console toy. I wanted to play with a few maze exploration algorithms (you can see a bunch in the history). The...

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Announcing Tui000

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Announcing Tui000 (sounds like ‘three thousand’) Source and download here -> Tui000 Tui000 is a passive game / screensaver for your terminal. Watch virtual avatars make life decisions, visit the graveyard to see how each life measured out. Passive, small....

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My Custom Guitar from MaCo Guitars Is In!

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This has been many years coming, and I’m so excited to finally be able to share this with y’all. Years ago, I met a brilliant engineer and guitar builder, who later started MaCo guitars. Many years before thats, my co-founder Mark and I had built a cigar-box guitar together based on the Make magazine cover article. I never forgot how much fun it was, or how much skill goes into even the most basic of guitar builds. I knew, one day I would commission a professional shop to build my dream guitar.

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Coaching Leaders During Covid

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It’s 2022. Strange as it is to write this, that means we’ve been living in a Covid-19 world for two years. For many of us that has meant a shift into remote work and remote leadership. Looking back on these past two years of fully remote leadership, I’ve observed that the stress of Covid-19 has only exacerbated the struggles that many new leaders go through. With that in mind, here are four struggles new leaders commonly face, and coaching lines I tend to employ for each.

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