Pachi

27 May 2025

We are building a new local-first version of FacileThings, a personal productivity web & mobile application based on the Getting Things Done methodology (GTD). It will be a super-fast, reactive, and responsive application that allows you to work offline. #buildinpublic #localfirst #GTD

replacing Shadcn/ui by Meta’s Astryx in a side project and, damn, now it looks like a real app!

spent a couple of days setting up the @powersync.com service (self-hosted) in a React app with a PostgreSQL database backend. Not straightforward, but THIS IS FAST! #localfirst

it can be the replacement of our current Replicache sync engine in the not too distant future

I’m on a week-long vacation, and I’m trying to disconnect and devote myself to inactivity and a contemplative life. It’s harder than it looks.

youtu.beMen in tech #YesAllMen - EMF 2026YouTube video by Electromagnetic Field

This isn’t just about a woman’s career path in the tech sector. It’s about the lives of women in general. I feel deeply ashamed to be a man.

Jo Franchetti @thisisjofrank.bsky.social

I gave a talk at EMF titled "Men in Tech #YesAllMen", in which I told my experience of being a woman in tech. I was afraid to publish it in case it affected my current or future employment. With all the current news I would like to add my 2¢. So here is the recording: youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0?...

youtu.beConnect your AI assistant to FacileThings with our new MCP ServerYouTube video by FacileThings

Connect Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP-compatible assistant to FacileThings. Capture, clarify and review your commitments through natural conversation, guided by the GTD method. youtu.be/KgandeDWJTU

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kepano

@stephango.com

This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax. - 100-500× faster than mermaid.js - 6× smaller bundle - No dependencies - Easy to theme - Responsive to device width - Open source (MIT) Try it at pele.run

facilethings.comConnect Claude, ChatGPT or any AI assistant to FacileThings. Capture, clarify and review your tasks through conversation, guided by GTD. No API keys needed.Connect Claude, ChatGPT or any AI assistant to FacileThings. Capture, clarify and review your tasks through conversation, guided by GTD. No API keys needed.

Our new FacileThings MCP server is up and running! Your trusted system, now in every AI chat! #GTD #Claude #ChatGPT facilethings.com/mcp/en

facilethings.comHow to Get Started with GTD: Set up a System That Works and Make It a HabitHow to get started with GTD: customize your lists and contexts, do a mind sweep, and adopt the four habits that sustain the system.

How to Get Started with #GTD: Set up a System That Works and Make It a Habit facilethings.com/blog/en/how-...

Claude Design has improved a lot

Spent the weekend adding DCR and CIMD support to our MCP server, to remove friction. It’s been hard, even with the help of Claude

love the Apple Container machine concept. You can create a Linux machine that shares the MacOs file system, like Toolbox or Distrobox in Linux distros

facilethings.comOrganize, Reflect, and Engage: The Three Steps That Complete the GTD WorkflowHow to organize your lists, conduct the weekly review, and choose your next action: the final three steps of the GTD workflow

Organize, Reflect, and Engage: The Three Steps That Complete the #GTD Workflow facilethings.com/blog/en/orga...

I have to say that Opus 5.5 writes with much less claudisms

facilethings.comCapture and Clarify: The First Two Steps of the GTD WorkflowIn GTD, capturing isn't enough—you have to clarify. We explain how these first two steps of the workflow work.

15 Sept

Capture and Clarify: The First Two Steps of the GTD Workflow facilethings.com/blog/en/capt... Lay a solid foundation for your personal organization #GTD #productivity

12 Sept

new desktop configuration

9 Sept

There are people who are reluctant to give any personal information to an LLM, and others who would go so far as to give it their bank password.

6 Sept

Barça are unstoppable this season

facilethings.comThe Perfect Storm: Why Modern Work Overwhelms and How to Deal with ItTwo forces clash in today's work environment: its unpredictable nature and the limitations of our brains. Discover how GTD resolves this perfect storm.

1 Sept

The Perfect Storm: Why Modern Work Overwhelms and How to Deal with It facilethings.com/blog/en/the-... #productivity #effectiveness

30 Aug

Implementing good onboarding is hard

28 Aug

just realized that progressive enhancement makes a lot more sense than it initially seemed

24 Aug

Definitely, Fedora Silverblue is the best Linux distribution out there.

20 Aug

sorry, I cannot not review the code

facilethings.comThe New FacileThings: Rethinking the Tool from the Ground UpOur vision for the future of FacileThings: a local-first app, faster, true to GTD, and ready to connect with AI.

18 Aug

The New FacileThings: Rethinking the Tool from the Ground Up facilethings.com/blog/en/the-... My vision for the future of FacileThings: a local-first app, faster, true to #GTD, and ready to connect with AI.

15 Aug

Just fixed a few issues in the MCP server (dropping unused connections to free memory, raising idle timeout) and added support to other tools (Gemini CLI, Hermes). One very productive hour!

12 Aug

99.5% of the Sun will be eclipsed in an hour in my place. Not very excited though

6 Aug

MCP server deployed! Connect #Claude to #FacileThings and manage your #GTD system with natural language: captures, queries and projects in a conversation.

facilethings.comTalk to Your GTD System: How FacileThings New MCP Server WorksConnect Claude to FacileThings using MCP and manage your GTD system with natural language: captures, queries and projects in a conversation.

4 Aug

Talk to Your GTD System: How FacileThings New MCP Server Works facilethings.com/blog/en/new-... #GTD #MCP #claude #chatgpt #productivity

30 July

ok, the new MCP server is ready. it works great with claude, not so great with chatgpt

30 July

Just like with people, talking to an LLM is sometimes great and sometimes very frustrating.

29 July

Hi @danfarina.bsky.social, migrated app and database from Heroku to Ubicloud two weeks ago, and everything is going great. Thanks!

nealstephenson.substack.comWriting by Hand is Good for your Brain - Here's how to do itBecause I am known to write using a fountain pen on paper, a number of people have pointed me to this post and its underlying research. I won’t rehash what is said in those sources, but the gist of it...

25 July

Remember this! Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing-by...

facilethings.comWhy Do We Leave a Meeting with More Questions than Answers?You leave a meeting believing something was resolved, but science explains why clarity and commitments are lost as soon as it's over.

21 July

Why Do We Leave a Meeting with More Questions than Answers? facilethings.com/blog/en/why-... Know why clarity and commitments are lost as soon as the meeting is over.

20 July

Regardless of the model used, Claude Code has greatly improved its workflow. It now creates its own temporary code to verify the validity of changes, benchmarks, convergence tests, and so on. I still do it, but reviewing the code is becoming increasingly unnecessary.

@philippeauclair.bsky.social

20 July

It does what an engineer with time would do.

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Sam Freedman

@samfr.bsky.social

19 July

And the women's world cup And the men's under-19 Euros And the women's under-20 world cup. Passing a lot works...

Philippe Auclair@philippeauclair.bsky.social

Spain, now holders of the European, Olympic and World titles. Prodigious.

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Philippe Auclair

19 July

Spain, now holders of the European, Olympic and World titles. Prodigious.

Vamooosss!!!

The server migration has gone quite well. I expect a quiet day monitoring metrics 🤞 And a crazy night with the World Cup final!

timeanddate.comEvent Time Announcer - FacileThings maintenance windowEvent Time Announcer shows time for FacileThings maintenance window in locations all over the world. In Madrid it happens on Sunday, July 19, 2026 at 12:00:00 midnight.

18 July

In the next few hours, we will stop the service for about 30 minutes for a system infrastructure migration. Sorry for the inconvenience. See your local time: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

gingerbill.orgGood Tools Are InvisibleTL;DR: A good tool is and ought to be invisible—striving to make such tools is the goal of a toolmaker.One habit I see a lot, and have to push back on, is taking a tool's shortcomings and reselling th...

18 July

I couldn't agree more. Good Tools Are Invisible www.gingerbill.org/article/2026...

seths.blogResources and focusThere are lots of things you can do, but it's not clear you should. OpenAI has virtually unlimited resources. And in addition to building a chat-based AI, they chose to launch pretty good image generation, a basketball, a meme video generator (since cancelled), an upcoming speaker that actually moves around your house, and a myriad of other tools, with new ones coming all the time.

17 July

“No is a complete sentence”

Seth Godin@sethgodin.bsky.social

Resources and focus There are lots of things you can do, but it's not clear you should. OpenAI has virtually unlimited resources....

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Siobhán 🪏

@shibbi.me

Wait, you… use libraries? Code that other people wrote for you? You just… download it? Do you even read the code? Do you not care about the craft, the knowledge that comes from putting in the work yourself? Aren’t you afraid your skills will atrophy?

ok, ready for the match! France 🇫🇷 — Spain 🇪🇸

it looks good at half time France, 0 - Spain, 1

to the final! what a team!

github.comGitHub - mcuadros/ofelia: A docker job scheduler (aka. crontab for docker)A docker job scheduler (aka. crontab for docker). Contribute to mcuadros/ofelia development by creating an account on GitHub.

13 July

I'm migrating from Heroku to a VPS server with Docker Swarm, and a very interesting alternative to Heroku Scheduler in Docker environments is Ofelia: github.com/mcuadros/ofe...

13 July

The migration is very easy, at the compose.yml file level. Although with Docker Swarm, Ofelia has the problem of not finding the worker container when a new version of the app is deployed. We solved this with a script that cron runs every 5 minutes, restarting Ofelia if the worker ID has changed.