Hi, I’m Conor 👋

When you give me a PR to review, it should be complete and tested by YOU. You should be proud and ready for your work to be shipped right now. I’m just here to double check things. I should not be: the first set of HUMAN eyes to look at your AI slop making your code DRY/maintainable because the AI didn’t cleaning up the style/formatting to fit with the rest of our codebase because the AI didn’t The Bottom Line...

I’m optimizing my next product for: An eye popping headline (clicks) As much conversations with users as humanly possible (pmf) Extra credit: it’s launched in a community interested in the topic, so the release post doesn’t feel like an advertisement

I want to cover 2 things, before I get caught up in thought; My feelings releasing modergator today and getting no new users What to do next with modergator My feelings releasing a project and getting no users It sucks. And its basically the worst outcome. And its what I expected to happen. Our marketing plan was an after thought: Make a post on Reddit Make a post on indie hackers Make a post on twitter And the results, of course, are nothing....

You should use the chrome debugger if you do any frontend js/ts work. /thread console.log is dead. The debugger saves my ass every time. You don’t need to set up anything or even import it if your using Chrome. You just: Add debugger; anywhere in your code: (stick it behind an if if you like!) If you’re debugging on the fly, find your file in the sources tab and click “Add Breakpoint”....

1. External validation for a new idea At the start of a project, I’m not sure if only I have the problem I want to solve. The more emails that join my wait list, the more excited people are about solving the problem. I try to be super straight up about who my product is for on the landing page. I also try to scope down the communicated project features as much as possible....

Today I built a wait list landing page for a new project of mine. I did it in around 2 hr 55 min. This is a PB for me. I could definitely have done it faster, but with the trade offs I wanted, I am quite happy. The Strategy Note: I’m not affiliated with the brands mentioned. 1. Audit current state of drag-and-drop website builders Time: 45 min | Cost: $0...

Reviewing pull requests is a pain in the hole, but a necessary one. It is also massive time sync if you’re actually doing it right. Normal PR Process It often looks like this: Get slack message: “pwetty pwease review my PR :3 pr link” Open in browser, scroll through the code a bit Inner Monologue: “This looks mostly understandable? Can I can get away without pulling this locally?” Decide to run it locally Stash current branch’s changes (remember that you have a stash saved!...

Stopping and smelling the roses 🌹

I blog sometimes. I publish a good bit of music as well, and yet, no one knows me. This is fine. I happily mosey through life without internet celebrity, but candidly (and probably humanly), it would be nice to get recognition for the things that I make. So how does one get “discovered”? Youtube just recommended me this small linux youtuber, who struck me with a Jimmy Neutron style, brain blast on how these algorithms likely work....

I’m at a quietly frustrating point with my German language learning. It’s an uncomfortable expanse within A1-A2 levels where I pick up a myriad of words in a conversation, but I’m still not confident enough to say much. The usual solution here is one of brute force. Go make a fool of yourself, often and brazenly, in the wild. Talk to people around you, have awkward-as-hell conversations. But, how can I cash in on the ChatGPT hype that way?...