Spencer Henry

@tylerking.app I know it isn't your focus right now but an update on survey metrics on the next episode would be cool. Just kinda a wrap on "this is where it settled" - although I realize that might just be where it was last time you brought it up

there's no better dopamine than people using the thing you made

"Today's builders understand that the value we bring has moved to the bookends: the up-front thinking and the final push across the finish line. The messy middle — the grunt work of implementation — is where AI thrives (if we let it)." – @briancasel.com

Tried using a sticky note today It DOESNT FREAKING STICK WELL NO WONDER WHY I NEVER USE THESE PIECES OF TRASH

Add some Cajun smoked sausage to your Mac n cheese next time you make it Thank me anyway you see fit

lotta people think ingesting, even feasting, on videos of suffering somehow makes them better. just the act itself of consuming the content. pretty weird, when you get right down to it

Ironically we undervalue our greatest superpowers exactly because they come so easily to us. So we don’t think it’s impressive, special, or interesting. But it is the fact that it’s so easy for us that makes them superpowers.

Day 4(?) of black/white phone settings turned on, Definitely fulfilling the purpose. Makes the holy screen a little less enticing. Also might just be optimism but seems like checking phone in bed doesnt disrupt falling asleep as much, or screw up ability to pay attn if I scroll in morning as much

Great read

Trying out full grayscale on my phone to see if it naturally makes me doomscroll less / want it less without actually removing any functionality. I will give it a week and report back methinks 🫡

Assuming no other step FX changes (this is maybe... A very large assumption) This means more software, and more software related jobs, than before. It also means less reliance on the VC teet and smaller software companies (excluding PE/roll ups, the actual functional building units) I'm excited.

Currently have Claude code running on 2 laptops doing a large feature for work on one and a little personal CRM for me on the other. Could it be that my ADHD is going to suddenly become a dev superpower soon 😂😂

Free Birth Society shows how disordered discourse fills gaps left by institutional failure. When people feel harmed or unseen by formal systems, parallel worlds of knowledge become compelling, even when dangerous.

Happy beached whale dynamite day for all who celebrate

It would appear sleeping 9.5 hrs is as effective as taking Adderall 😂

If there are no downsides to your business model, then it's already been done by a VC funded hyper scale. Probably hard to compete. If you want a small SaaS business (small can mean millions in revenue) you should opt in to at least 1 pain. High churn, low price point, high support load...

Okay also this with "dockerize your local dev!" Beautiful idea. Then I need to debug.

I spawned winecap mushrooms in my wood chips and they're popping up beautifully past few weeks! But I'm still too scared to eat them. Mostly I just don't like mushrooms 🫠

@tylerking.app your automations support actions on custom fields right? I have a custom fields feature for a completely separate app but I'm curious about best ways to structure the data for future features like report building.

Rather, the goal for small businesses -- software or restaurants or freelancers or car washes or landscapers or cleaners -- is ownership, pride, autonomy, fulfillment. (3/6)

Kid brought home his first school pictures ever (1st grade) He loves them and doesn't want to retake. It's horrible. Actually could not instruct him to make a worse face. Wife and I trying our best not to lose it in front of him rn. Hoo boy.

The original owner of my home decided every garden bed should have landscape fabric 18in down. So this week I get to undo this sin. Giant hassle yes it also i get to play in the dirt with big toys. 7/10 would do again

We used to get paid to work with horses and cut down trees. I mean I'm grateful to have all my limbs but no wonder sometimes typing on a keyboard all day doesn't quite feel fulfilling

Was just eating raisins out of my hand... Ended up with a dessicated bumblebee in my mouth. That kinda day

Any recs for articles/podcasts that focus on customer success / implementing large customers? Rollout plans metrics etc.

Am I too old to ripstick around the neighborhood

He Has Risen!

About once a month I drive 2 hrs away and stay the night to co-work with my team. It has become a ritual to get donuts from our favorite faraway donut place and bring them home to my kids. It costs a lot to leave my family for a day but traditions like this make it a bit easier to do :)

My wife always produces 3-4x the amount of laundry I do. To get revenge, I've started gardening

My fledgling museum SaaS, which I have no time to work on and a solid list of product improvements, keeps getting 2-3 highly interested customers booking demos a month. Miserable, painful, validation when I know I ought not to be investing my time into it right now :(

All I wanna do today is crawl back in bed Secondarily I'd take cracking a booster box of mtg 😴

I work in react daily. I cannot believe it is still the defacto technology of choice. 🥴 Like jsx is great but having to build all the opinions up from the ground is just such a mess

I'm co-opting the term "differential diagnosis" from medicine to talk about the skill of quickly finding the root cause of a bug. You have been warned. Cheers! Srsly tho any tips on how to teach that skill to another?

Got a few yards of wood chips from the arborist this week. Like Christmas all over again 🥳 This is a lil more than half the pile left

Piling nitrogen bigger and using a clear tarp for greenhouse effect resurrected my compost pile, back up to 100°F while our daily lows have been single digits 😎