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> The case for writing and coding manually

I share much of the same ideas about this as the author.

For a long time, to make coding more natural (before and after LLMs) and not having to think about certain keywords or syntax, I would create little Anki decks (10-20 cards) with basic exercises for a particular language or tool I was using. One to two weeks of 5-10 minutes/day of doing these exercises (like, how to redirect both stout and strrr into a file, how to read from a channel in go, etc) and I was working without having to pause.

Writing code became less disruptive and much easier to get my ideas into a text editor.

I’m also the creator of typequicker.com (disclaimer) and we added Code mode as a typing exercise.

At first I thought folks wouldn’t be interested. I was pleasantly surprised though; many people are using it specifically for the same reason that the author is talking about.


That’s what I’m kind of looking for. Something that shows more advanced features.

I feel like most of these tutorial like apps just scratch the surface and are more beginner focused.


I actually opened this hoping it’ an alternative to vimtutor but for experienced/intermediate users.

Is there such a thing? I feel like someone has probably made something this - something that progressively works through soem of the more complex features of vim.

I’ve found soem absolute gems mostly through online blogs and reading through vim docs

If anyone has any repos that’d recommended I’d be happy to try!



  >> hoping it’ an alternative to vimtutor but for experienced/intermediate users.
I think you missed the part where the parent said this...


Nice idea for podcast - good luck!


> High Performance: Processes millions of events per second, about 4x to 10x faster than channels.

Wow - that’s a pretty impressive accomplishment. I’ve been meaning to move some workers I have to a pub/sub on https://www.typequicker.com.

I might try using this in prod. I don’t really need the insane performance benefits as I don’t have my traffic lol - but I always like experimenting with new open source libraries - especially while the site isn’t very large yet


Really cool site. One small issue that I found is that you cannot change the keyboard layout. Not sure if it should somehow automatically pick it up through some browser feature. But it would be nice to change it manually :)


that's a cool site. you will see me more frequently btw do some tech twitter promos.


Thank you - appreciate it! :)

> btw do some tech twitter promos.

Yes - I have plans to do. Still relatively new to the marketing, SEO, etc world. Recently quit my job to build products (TypeQuicker is the first in line) and up until now I've only ever done software dev work.

How would you suggest to do twitter promos - just post consistently about the app features and such?


> said that 4 of the 35 or so kids at the camp left because they couldn’t be away from their devices.

Wow that’s scary. Such powerful addiction at such a young age


Parents let them.


Individual parents don't have that much of a choice unless they want to turn their kids into social pariahs.


Can you provide any sources on that?

I've only been able to find articles that counter it[1][2][3][4], and nothing more rigorous than a Pew survey.

It feels right, and I recall feeling similarly about certain items/events as a teen, but teens aren't known for having the most measured interpretations of reality.

1: https://medium.com/@helmisantosa/teens-without-smartphones-h... 2: https://screenstrong.substack.com/p/can-you-raise-a-teen-tod... 3: https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/parenting/article/teenag... 4: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/smartphones-flip-phones-screen-...


...so some parents feel peer pressure from kids too?


I’m curious as well.

I’ve been exploring this space for a potential project - curious to see what these startups are doing


Thank you! :)

Yes!! I have this on my todo list (along with many other features I've always wanted) actually!


I couldn’t agree more on this honestly.

https://www.typequicker.com kinda focuses on this sentiment. AI generated natural text that targets user weak points.

The more you type, the better the targeted exercises are.

The whole app essentially focuses on natural text (except for drills)


I could only get through a few rounds of this -- it messed with my brain much more than my fingers. Proper nouns without capitals, flipping between -ize and -ise, and the outright bad grammar were all reasons I typed slower than I normally would.

> geohumanities, sometimes written geohumanities or the geohumanities is a term has been used with varied meanings to describe areas of academic study


Oh thanks for mentioning this.

Which practice mode did you use?

Capitalization, text length, and topics can be adjusted.

(Just click on the topics buttons or whichever mode you’re using for additional setting).


I'm not sure what mode at all - I just clicked "start", and after each exercise I just clicked "continue". I didn't adjust any settings, just dived straight in!


Gotcha - thanks for mentioning this though.

I’ve been meaning to make some changes to the default text in the practice mode so this bumps it up on my todo list.

Thank you!


Same!

So relieved Claude Code and Aider exist now - I almost bought into the Cursor hype


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