"GitHub has an amazing code review system called Pull Requests that I fear not enough people know about. Many people use it for open source work - fork a project, update the project, send a pull request to the maintainer. However, it can also easily be used as an internal code review system, which is what we do.

Actually, we use it more as a branch conversation view more than a pull request. You can send pull requests from one branch to another in a single project (public or private) in GitHub, so you can use them to say “I need help or review on this” in addition to “Please merge this in”

Occasionally, you read a magazine article or a blog post and have that “Eureka!” moment of insight - something has been revealed and the way you think will never be the same again. Concentrating on the idea of productivity, I recently asked myself and the 99% writing team what their touchstone pieces in this category would be. Below, you’ll find a shortlist of key pieces that have influenced the way we manage our time, our to-do lists, our priorities, and our distractions…


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can attach bugs to visual elements through a wysiwyg approach

" According to the equations of West and Bettencourt, every socioeconomic variable that can be measured in cities – from the production of patents to per capita income – scales to an exponent of approximately 1.15. What’s interesting is the size of the exponent, which is greater than one. This means that a person living in a metropolis of one million should generate, on average, about 15 percent more patents, and make 15 percent more money, than a person living in a city of five hundred thousand. (They should also have 15 percent more restaurants in their neighborhood and create 15 percent more trademarks.) The correlations remain even when the numbers are adjusted for levels of education, work experience and IQ scores. “This remarkable equation is why people move to the big city,” West told me. “Because you can take the same person, and if you just move them from a city…"

"Cinch gives you simple, mouse-driven window management by defining the left, right, and top edges of your screen as 'hot zones'. Drag a window until the mouse cursor enters one of these zones then drop the window to have it cinch into place. Cinching to the left or right edges of the screen will resize the window to fill exactly half the screen, allowing you to easily compare two windows side-by-side (splitscreen). Cinching to the top edge of the screen will resize the window to fill the entire screen (fullscreen). Dragging a window away from its cinched position will restore the window to its original size."

awesome excerpts from a Quora post

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advice for the Fellows?

" web application that encourages writing by punishing the tendency to avoid writing. Start typing in the box. As long as you keep typing, you're fine, but once you stop typing, you have a grace period of a certain number of seconds and then there are consequences."

documenting his experience of being disconnected for a week

pointers on facilitating collaboration

"I’ve come to believe urgency is poisonous. Urgency may get things done a few days sooner, but what does it cost in morale? Few things burn morale like urgency. Urgency is acidic." JF

As Bobby Kennedy said in a speech at the University of Kansas in March 1968, the nation’s gross national product measures everything “except that which makes life worthwhile.” (Bhutan anyone?)

Nice overview of how to use RTM

will time your work/break cycles, reminding you when to work and when to take a break.

getting rid of the clutter so you are left with only that which gives you value.

Automatically copies mouse selections to the clipboard. Reports the number of copied characters, words and lines.

Paste the contents of your clipboard to any text area with your middle mouse button with True X-Mouse Gizmo.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand, but learning comes first. Real learning si a cycle of questioning, experimenting, and reflecting. It's how we convert curiosity into an innovative solution, so learning must BE the work, not something separate fr

intuitive time tracker

a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP.

To outsiders, programmers are viewed as a sort of inner-circle of magicians who speak a rather cryptic language aimed at impressing others, as well as themselves.

allows learning and training to use keyboard shortcuts. It can be used in presentations, screencasts and videos, as well as when working with someone else on the same machine to teach new shortcuts.

like Launchy for Linux sudo apt-get install katapult

a free, online timetracker perfect for anyone who needs to manage their work hours

Busyness vs. Burst: Why Corporate Web Workers Look Unproductive

"It's that man down the corridor," he explained. "Every time I go by his office he's just sitting there with his feet on his desk. He's wasting your money." "That man," Ford replied, "once had an idea that saved us millions of dollars. At the time, I bel

a free windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just

adds a small task icon to the top of each day in Google Calendar

aphrodisiac is committed full-attention focus. In this new area, experiencing this engaged attention is to feel alive. Trusted filters, trusted protectors, trusted concierge, human or technical, removing distractions and managing boundaries, filtering sig

# The words should, ought, must, have to occur frequently in the person's conversation. (I should get straight A's; I must do everything right the first time, etc.) "If you can't do it right, don't do it at all."

What things in your life demand undivided attention? Whatever they are, I claim they define your life more than anything else you do.

# okie, whatever. When the two minutes are up, it’s back to work on the next task on your list. This is important. # *5 - You’re going to iterate this four more times for a total of one hour’s working/breaking

It runs in the background of your computer, taking screenshots of your desktop every few seconds all week long.

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Time Tracker is a simple tool to keep track of the time you spend on any task. Think of it as a to-do-list with a clock. And yes, it's free.

Abundance means 'The property of a more than adequate quantity or supply' and to really take advantage of all that is available to you, you really do have to have a handle on this extremely important way of thinking.