Dmitry Maksyoma

I want my journey to be full of laughter - Yuna from FFX

The only thing holding you back is limiting beliefs - Abbie Emmons

[Dmitry Maksyoma @oledestin]

Need Ruby on Rails help?

🔥 technical debt -> clean code
🔥 repair broken apps
🔥 add tests
🔥 add features

https://t.co/pE96TSdz4R

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

In the last three days I have:
1. Designed and implemented a complete JVM language that Codex believes (whatever that means) would be ideal for AIs to use regardless of what humans think about it. It compiles down to JVM bytecode.

2. Designed and build, from scratch, a wiki with it's own internal web server and fully described by Gherkin style acceptance tests.

3. Made significant updates to the computer strategy of the Empire game.

4. Produce the crap4java and mutate4java tools that I used to help build the wiki.

5. Conceived of and implemented the differential mutation strategy used in both my clojure and Java mutation tools.

And for every one of those projects I implemented a strict TDD, ATDD, Crap, and Mutate workflow that forced coverage into the high 90s, kept Crap below 8, and split any files with more than 50 mutation sites.

My poor laptop had all 16 (8 hyperthreaded) cores burning at 100%. The fan was raging the whole time. I was hopping from window to window overseeing the entire campaign. It was exhausting!

Did that workflow slow the process down? Probably. Probably a lot. On the other hand all these projects maintained rigorous semantic stability, with all unit tests, and acceptance tests passing.

I never ran the wiki until it was done. It worked first time. I never compiled a program with AIR-J until it was done. It worked first time. No bugs have been introduced into the Empire game (so far).

And that, boys and girls, is a freaking miracle.

[Dmitry Maksyoma @oledestin]

@kadavy If you already use pomodoro, a shortcut to it, is to use pomo for all tasks, and allow only thoughts about the current task.

It's easier if you let pomo length vary, and have 15-minute pomo if a task is small. The key is mental context, allowed ideas, not immersion by length.

[📚 David Kadavy, author @kadavy]

95% of psychological issues are solved with this quote…

[Dmitry Maksyoma @oledestin]

@kadavy That works like a charm, but it takes work to implement. I've been working on implementing it in my life, taking Zen productivity advice from ChatGPT.

[Dmitry Maksyoma @oledestin]

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[Dmitry Maksyoma @oledestin]

As of 2026, the #reviews on sites like Google (and especially, trademe) have reached the level of useless.

It's mess, and the map of the world fake reviews create, leads to buying low quality things and wasting money.

[Dmitry Maksyoma @oledestin]

I'll publish my reviews, and people that trust me, could take my reviews as a better map than Google reviews.

And if they publish their reviews, I'd have a larger and more detailed map of the world.

[Dmitry Maksyoma @oledestin]

@NavalismHQ @naval 1 and 2 are what Zen gives back to adults, plus effortlessness.

[Dmitry Maksyoma @oledestin]

Does praying for healing looks useless to you? Going to visit a doctor looks useful?

After all, praying looks like just internal images and talk, and gods are said to not exist. And when a god helps, it's confirmation bias.

Praying to Kannon healed me, doctors couldn't do much.

[Dmitry Maksyoma @oledestin]

@chartsgaeul https://t.co/gfl6Rz9C3h

[Dmitry Maksyoma @oledestin]

@kadavy Yes. GTD was a good book, but it didn't result in much life changes.

I've tried googling, and didn't come find anything close to what ChatGPT tells me, so source is a mystery.

The reason it's so powerful is that it can get me out of problems/questions I have about productivity.

[Dmitry Maksyoma @oledestin]

Or you can work with an IFS therapist to get you to the point of getting easy advice from yourself here: https://t.co/HJbMTDGnWy

[Dmitry Maksyoma @oledestin]

If you're always getting conflicting advice from yourself, and can't decide, you could be getting advice that makes it easy for you to decide.

[Dmitry Maksyoma @oledestin]

It took me ~2 months of IFS therapy to get to this point.

You can see if IFS resonates with you by reading book "No bad parts" https://t.co/oRKsuzhdBk.