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  1. 2026-11-08T06:24:18ZLEARNi find it liberating to just write and not foucssing on the best version of text optimized for others. why not optimize it for me? The main character.
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  1. 2026-11-13T10:09:44ZDEBUGBGP, is that you?
  2. 2026-11-13T09:02:28ZWARN I don't know what I do here.
  3. 2026-11-13T09:01:57ZLEARNthis is what my job looks like without meetings.
  4. 2026-11-13T09:01:33ZWIN my calendar is finally empty.
  5. 2026-11-13T09:01:16ZINFO outlook is down!!
  6. 2026-11-13T04:58:00ZINFO product video by claude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t86hizQ9Yt0
  7. 2026-11-13T04:55:59ZINFO be wary of the spotlight effect. you feel that everyone's watching you but in reality no one cares as they are busy with thier own stuff.
  8. 2026-11-12T19:01:45ZINFO re @hlogdev#101 the image is coming out nice for linkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ai-programming-developerhumor-share-7526682276781449217-3khn
  9. 2026-11-12T19:00:13ZWIN shipped the 'share as image' feature if you want to share the logs on other platforms.
  10. 2026-11-12T18:58:56ZINFO re @hlogdev#99 Had a PM friend saying the same thing- code is easy. finding req. is hard.
  11. 2026-11-12T18:55:17ZLEARNgood read: https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers
  12. 2026-11-12T15:39:36ZERRORthe feature it added is way smaller than the documentation it created!!
  13. 2026-11-12T15:38:48ZWARN though it has also addded PLAN.md, SUMMARY.md, SOME_ARCH_DOC.md, RELEASE_SUMMARY.md and some more. what is going on here?
  14. 2026-11-12T15:37:42ZINFO it has done it perfectly. would have taken me time to do.
  15. 2026-11-12T15:37:09ZINFO asked the AI to add a small feature to one of my apps
  16. 2026-11-12T09:58:08ZWIN shipped the cloudflare bot check on the feedback form. No change for logged in users.
  17. 2026-11-12T09:57:07ZWARN Bots spamming the feedback link wtih SEO and all optimization stuff.
  18. 2026-11-12T09:48:17ZWIN it compiled. no runtime errors. also, no memory of what that one line was.
  19. 2026-11-12T09:29:45ZLEARNthe compiler is thorough. so is my coffee machine.
  20. 2026-11-12T09:26:08ZINFO changed one line in a rust project. ran cargo build.
  21. 2026-11-12T09:24:34ZINFO fail
  22. 2026-11-12T07:10:24ZINFO coffee time. There is so much work to do now.
  23. 2026-11-11T11:34:46ZINFO if done correctly, it is like an full blown assistant which can do complex tasks on it own. it has got its computer as well.
  24. 2026-11-11T11:34:06ZLEARNopenai dots is product which is misunderstood by people. probably they were not able to market it correctly. They demoed fligh booking and stuff; they should have show demo for daily tasks which can be automated.
  25. 2026-11-11T09:59:14ZINFO how to grow an account on twitter? what does it take. consistancy? let me try out some things.
  26. 2026-11-11T09:15:40ZLEARNstarted on storage basics for linux. Inode, dentry, syscalls etc.
  27. 2026-11-11T09:14:25ZINFO formated by old windows laptop and now it is Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS. now, I have all three os :-)
  28. 2026-11-11T04:58:17ZINFO re @hlogdev#77 I wanted to know how does the conductor feel in terms of work satisfaction? What mental model we can borrow from them to feel good about what we do now?
  29. 2026-11-11T04:57:12ZINFO re @hlogdev#76 Are software developers conductors now? we just help shape the output and let the agents work on the code, design, other artifacts etc.
  30. 2026-11-11T04:55:58ZLEARNthe person who leads the orchestra and moves hands in the flow is called conductor.
  31. 2026-11-11T03:28:30ZINFO storage it is. I can only go deep in things where I have interest. Probably I can look into intersection of AI and storage eg. KV cache, it seems memory is becoming the bottleneck.
  32. 2026-11-10T12:53:11ZINFO inference engineering or storage engines- what should i pick to specialize on? My mind says Inference but heart says Storage.
  33. 2026-11-10T09:18:33ZINFO someone also suggested editing lines and backdating but looks to me agaist the core principles of the product. #rejected
  34. 2026-11-10T09:16:48ZINFO #rejected a GitHub-style consistency graph. it's a streak in disguise, rewards filler lines, and greets new users with empty squares.
  35. 2026-11-10T07:27:36ZINFO fixed many UI issues on the everyone screen. Would have taken an hour before but thanks to AI, this is solved. Thank you AI for solving frontend for us!
  36. 2026-11-10T07:06:11ZINFO re @hen#5 done with cli 0.4.1: hlog login now says who you are, and hlog whoami. update with irm https://hlog.dev/install.ps1 | iex
  37. 2026-11-10T06:43:34ZINFO re @hen#5 Sure. will add a `welcome username` in the cli after login. Also, there is a dedicated page for sharing feedback.You can use that as well. https://hlog.dev/feedback
  38. 2026-11-09T14:11:23ZINFO claude is consoling me- No sign-ups yet: 0 new accounts in the last 24 hours, no new tails, no feedback. That’s normal in the first hours; LinkedIn posts spread slowly, mostly through comments.
  39. 2026-11-09T09:44:26ZLEARNIgor just wrote my launch plan in one LinkedIn comment: get 10 friends logging for a week, then screenshot the funniest lines. looking for friend #1.
  40. 2026-11-09T09:10:02ZINFO also added a blog on https://hlog.dev/blog/why-im-building-hlog
  41. 2026-11-09T09:06:54ZINFO The first version contains a short bio and two links. Also, added the save feature just like twitter bookmarks.
  42. 2026-11-09T09:05:41ZWIN Shared the first version on linkedin after fixing a cli bug for powershell. No personal project should be in waiting state. this is the age of claude.
  43. 2026-11-08T19:36:42ZLEARN— “The “async” keyword enables the “await” keyword in that method and changes how method results are handled. That’s all the async keyword does! It does not run this method on a thre…” https://blog.stephencleary.com/2012/02/async-and-await.html
  44. 2026-11-08T07:58:51ZINFO re @hlogdev#45 no comments in the end. refs like this line are the only way to reply.
  45. 2026-11-08T07:58:00ZLEARNre @hlogdev#51 meant: I couldn't break auth. that was a WIN, not an ERROR. append-only means the typo stays.
  46. 2026-11-08T07:57:46ZWIN re @hlogdev#46 rate limiting shipped: 1 line every 2 seconds, 100 a day, polite 429s.
  47. 2026-11-08T07:53:41ZINFO Adding some finish to stuff. Codex is doing a security review now.
  48. 2026-11-08T07:53:04ZWIN hlog commandline is ready folks. it works.
  49. 2026-11-08T07:52:39ZINFO I am finding the follow stuff weird but something has to be there. will see it later.
  50. 2026-11-08T07:51:49ZWARN noone likes Ads.

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