Simon Kelly

First and foremost, a Christian, husband and father of 2.

Tech lead @dimagi and founder of

[Simon Kelly @snopoke]

Disciplining children is one of the hardest parts of parenting! To know when, how, and how much requires such wisdom! And knowing that you won't always get it right.

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@gevious Quite an achievement. How did you play it together? Who decided what to do?

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@gevious Have you experimented at all with spec driven development?

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Cape Town weather reports are tough. Maybe it's sunny on the other side of the mountain 🤷🏼‍♂️

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@gevious I do if I let myself. I try not to do anything after 8pm otherwise I'll be up till late!

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@czue I was having a conversation about this today. The other area to watch out for is letting agents do designs before thinking about it yourself. This leaves you open to being biased by the agents decisions.

Take some time to formulate your options first.

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@gevious That does seem like a critical piece of the puzzle!

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@gevious What's the benefit?

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@gevious No. Just WhatsApp business

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@gevious I used to be on https://t.co/ukZZpKPLvn. costs kept climbing. Now I'm on a Hetzner VPN for £13 per month all in.

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@gevious I don't write code anymore. I collaborate on design and verify plans and do high level code review.

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I can identify:

"I feel an odd mix of intensity, urgency, confusion and hesitance. I'm looking at something bigger than I ever expected to confront, feeling underqualified and ignorant about what to do next."

https://t.co/gxVp8C3jMw

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@gevious I don't know your architecture but if you have background tasks you should consider https://t.co/6X7LDxpk0G for monitoring.

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@gevious Keep going!

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This lines up with my experience. I'm doing more, multitasking more, working after hours more and taking fewer breaks.,. Time to take a moment and put some intentionality back into my routine.

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

https://t.co/TJXf5xWT06

[Simon Kelly @snopoke]

I've started using GIT worktrees heavily recently and with Claude releasing worktree support I've found some useful ways to configure it. https://t.co/Me6kXGfwCT

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@gevious Do tell

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I don't think I need an IDE anymore. I've opened my IDE once in the last two weeks, otherwise I'm just working in the shell with an agent and lazygit. Now I'm reaching for a light terminal editor and neovim is coming out on top. I never thought I'd be a 'vim' person :-P

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Does anyone have a good AI coding setup that includes an automated review loop?

I've cobbled something together but I feel like there should be a better solution.