This is how I’ve been using Gemini and it’s the first time I’m really seeing consistent value.
I’ll get a context into a solid place with as much information as I can about a project. Usually getting up to 100k tokens.
Then I ask it to give me a summary I can use in a fresh chat, that will maintain the current context. This lets me reclaim space, bring responsiveness back to sane levels, have a baseline chat I use to spin up branches for marketing, design (it’s pretty helpful at trouble shooting Substance Designer graphs), etc.
I’ve found myself going into sub branches from there… like a marketing context that pushes branches into different marketing channels.
My wife and I do a retro date night once in a while where we hit up dandy’s to have burgers and shakes roller skated to the car, then rent a movie from Blockbuster… definitely a fun throwback.
I think, as others have alluded, this particular market might be tough with mountains being closed down. I have an aerial photograph of Burke above my workstation and a few other maps on my walls -- I always purchased them shortly after forming a connection to a place. That's just my anecdotal experience of course!
For marketing, are you also placing them on location? If so, I can likely help with placement in Burke Mountain Hotel. Edit: my email is in profile
Seconding The Mom Test. It's a fast read too, and the author was on a recent episode of the Indie Hackers podcast.
For more of the same, I got a lot out of Lean Customer Development by Cindy Alvarez. Here's a talk from Cindy if you'd like to get to learn more before committing to a book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5hc7sseHbE
I also enjoyed "Masterminds of Programming: Conversations With The Creators Of Major Programming Languages" [0]
It's a collection of interviews with creators of languages (FORTH, C++, Python, Haskell, and many more) You learn a lot about language design decisions and their pitfalls.
And a shameless plug: I shared MapFilterFold as a Show HN earlier, a project that collects recommendations from Ask HN threads. Browsing the books tagged computer science might yield some interesting results[1]
The site is a Phoenix app (Elixir's popular web framework) with PostgreSQL. The pages are just Phoenix templates and I let Cowboy, the default HTTP server for Phoenix, serve the app directly... so it's not sitting behind NGINX or any similar web server that's frequently used as a reverse proxy.
I used Bulma as for the CSS, just to try something I haven't used before.
The only line of JS is in the dropdown menu's onChange tag, to submit the "form" when you select a book category.
I like the UI on En Passant! Really clean - great use of icons so I know what the media type is at a glance as I scroll.
Hey myu701. Thanks for the link. I unticked the setting mentioned a bit lower on that page[0] to disable reCaptcha. It's not clear to me if that changes it for their landing page.
Testing an email alias of mine in incognito mode _looks_ like it's gone for me. Thanks again for bringing this up.
Hi, thanks! Frankly the articles (the three panels/links at the top of the home page) need more attention, but I wanted to have the feeling of "done" so I pushed the site out as-is.
On those pages, books aren't ranked in any particular order, other than trying to pull attention to some slightly buried books that I do personally recommend. I'd love to hear, are there any books you'd add to those pages?
The "Oddities and fun" page is simply a collection of books from my notes that stuck out as interesting while I manually approved all parsed comments and book mentions.
I’ll get a context into a solid place with as much information as I can about a project. Usually getting up to 100k tokens.
Then I ask it to give me a summary I can use in a fresh chat, that will maintain the current context. This lets me reclaim space, bring responsiveness back to sane levels, have a baseline chat I use to spin up branches for marketing, design (it’s pretty helpful at trouble shooting Substance Designer graphs), etc.
I’ve found myself going into sub branches from there… like a marketing context that pushes branches into different marketing channels.