robshippr's comments

On: Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?

[robshippr]

I am very good at writing down notes, especially in meetings... I am not so great at going back to those notes. I also have an issue with jumping around to different notebooks.

[item007 → robshippr]

That’s a super common pattern: capture is easy, retrieval isn’t, and fragmentation makes it worse.

Two small things that often help without changing your whole setup:

Keep a single “Meeting Inbox” note/page where all meetings land first (even if messy), and only promote items out when they turn into actions.

Add a 2-minute “end of meeting” ritual: write 1 decision, 1 next step, 1 owner/date at the top of the note.

Curious: what’s the main reason you don’t go back—time, forgetting the note exists, or the notes don’t feel actionable when you do open them?

On: Painless Software Schedules (2000)

[robshippr]

I miss his writing, I haven't seen a post by him in a while. His blog and Coding Horror are what I used to read all the time in my undergrad.

On: Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app

[robshippr]

Don't give them any ideas haha

On: Airfoil (2024)

[robshippr]

This is so cool. I've become more interested in aerodynamics since I've started watching F1 and reading Adrian Newey's book. This is such a great post, especially the diagrams in the velocity section.

On: Show HN: I built a small browser engine from scratch in C++

[robshippr]

Incredible job here. Really took a lot of work to get this done. Keep it up.