Patrick Kilgore pckilgore

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

	#!/usr/bin/env node

	import { writeFile } from "node:fs/promises"

	const token = "<YOUR API TOKEN>"

	const f = (route = "") =>
	fetch(`https://api.youneedabudget.com/v1/budgets/${route}`, {
	headers: {
	"authorization": `Bearer ${token} `

	/*
	If you use godspeedapp.com (it's great, tell Daniel I sent you, but if you found this
	you probably already use it) and want to use the API without disabling your E2E encryption
	this code provides a template for you to do so. Have a generative model turn it into
	your language of choice.

	NOTE #init() expects a trimmed key.

	NOTE Don't ship your fucking private key. Load it from a secret store you
	trust according to your threat model.


	// Available variables:
	// - Machine
	// - interpret
	// - assign
	// - send
	// - sendParent
	// - spawn
	// - raise
	// - actions


	// Available variables:
	// - Machine
	// - interpret
	// - assign
	// - send
	// - sendParent
	// - spawn
	// - raise
	// - actions


	// Available variables:
	// - Machine
	// - interpret
	// - assign
	// - send
	// - sendParent
	// - spawn
	// - raise
	// - actions

	#!/bin/bash

	ORG_NAME=$1
	REPO_NAME=$2
	WORKFLOW_NAME=$3

	if [[ -z $WORKFLOW_NAME \|\| -z REPO_NAME \|\| -z ORG_NAME ]]; then
	echo "Usage: bash remove_workflow_runs.sh <USER/ORG NAME> <REPO NAME> <WORKFLOW NAME>"
	exit 1
	fi

	import React from "react";
	import { Button } from "react-native";

	import * as GlobalVariableContext from "./config/GlobalVariableContext";

	export const MyVariableSetter = () => {
	const setGlobalVariable = GlobalVariableContext.useSetValue();
	const myNewValue = { key: "mySettableGlobal", value: "new value" };

	return (

	import React from "react";
	import { Text } from "react-native";

	import * as GlobalVariableContext from "./config/GlobalVariableContext";

	export const MyVariableDisplay = () => {
	const variables = GlobalVariableContext.useValues();

	return <Text> { variables.myGlobal } </Text>
	};

	type message = { hello: "world" };

	function greeter(t: message) {
	return Object.entries(t).flat().join(" ");
	}

Patrick Kilgore pckilgore

Make it real

Ship it

Do it with style