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**Kevin Ball:** But why...? |
**Brian Douglas:** That sounds pretty cool. I've actually never heard of this... You say "Why?" but the one thing I do remember from Tmux when I did try to do it... The window splitting in the basic terminal in Mac - I'm not sure if it was my settings, but I could never get it to work properly, or I'd get stuck in a sp... |
**Nick Nisi:** Yeah, check it out. It's really cool, really fast... And if you're running it on M1 Macs, I think you have to compile from source. It's the only thing that I'm having to do right now... But it's totally fine, it works... And it's pretty awesome. |
**Kevin Ball:** I actually meant "Why ligatures?" That seems like the whole inspiration -- but really, why ligatures? |
**Nick Nisi:** \[laughs\] I shouldn't have brought it up. Sometimes I just wanna experiment with making my terminal look fancy. I see VS Code and it looks really good, but it's horribly slow when I'm so used to this GPU-rendered fast terminal... I'm like, "I wanna do this cool stuff." Sometimes I use ligatures, but I u... |
**Kevin Ball:** I'm just giving you a hard time, Nick. You know how it is... I'm gonna wait for you to perfect it, and then I'm gonna steal your config and try it... Because great developers steal ideas; that's how we work. \[laughs\] |
**Nick Nisi:** Absolutely. |
**Brian Douglas:** I just got done copying and pasting tons of code this morning, so... Why not copy and paste your setup as well? |
**Break:** \[20:01\] |
**Nick Nisi:** Alright, so we've talked about some of the more development-focused things, like editors, terminals, remote collaboration... Let's talk a little bit more about personal productivity. What are some tools that you leverage to keep yourself productive, keep yourself in the know of what you need to be doing,... |
**Kevin Ball:** Sure. I manage a lot of my own personal productivity and other things through a tool called Roam Research, which is basically a networked note-taker, more or less. It lets you take notes -- the key concept is a nested bullet point of some sort, but then the other key concept is you can tag things; anyth... |
I have a few different things that I do with that that diminish my personal productivity. One is every day I have a set of priorities. One of the core concepts you get are daily notes; you're just doing daily notes, and that's automatic. I use that heavily. Every day I have a core list of priorities, things I'm trying ... |
I also map out my meeting for the day. I am a manager, I have other stuff around products, things -- I have a lot of meetings, so I map out what are all my meetings, and prep for those meetings, and have "Okay, what are the things that I wanna make sure I cover. |
One of the nice things about the networked stuff is I can tag every meeting with who is it with, particularly for one-on-ones, but also other thing, and then I can go and look at all my past conversations with that person, or other things I've tagged with that person, so that I have an easy way to boot up context for "... |
I use that a lot for myself. I don't share it with other people, it's entirely personal, but combining with the sort of practice of every day I'm having a set of priorities, and I'm mapping out what are my meetings and what do I need to accomplish in them, with this kind of networked concept where I'm keeping track of ... |
**Nick Nisi:** Nice. Are you following -- is it called Zettelkasten? Is that kind of where that idea of daily notes or daily -- |
**Kevin Ball:** So Zettelkasten is another thing that I think is really around processing your data inputs to create data outputs... So it's like "How do I take notes about the things that I read, aggregate, process, and do that, and then create reusable concepts and blocks that I can then generate outputs with?" I've ... |
**Nick Nisi:** \[24:07\] So you keep everything from like notes, and do you manage a to-do list in that as well? |
**Kevin Ball:** I mean, "manage a to-do list" might be a little strong for what I do. I don't have a single global to-do list that I'm keeping track of... But I do manage my priorities on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. |
**Nick Nisi:** Gotcha. Brian, how about you? |
**Brian Douglas:** Yeah, so to define my role a little bit before I jump into that - I'm a developer advocate, so I meet with different teams across organizations, like engineering, product, sometimes marketing, sometimes support... So I take a lot of meetings. So number one, I use Calendly, and I have it connected to ... |
But I also run a couple of podcasts and some livestreams with guests, so Calendly also is set up to also hook up -- so you can have a livestream or a podcast with me... The podcast I run is called JAMstack Radio, so as soon as someone says "Hey... Yes, I'll be on the podcast", I'll give them a Calendly link, and then o... |
O just got into Obsidian. Obsidian is kind of like Roam Research. I haven't got that far to actually get really into it, so Dropbox Paper has been my go-to... Kind of like Notion, if anybody is not familiar with Paper... And then that Paper doc is the notes for the conversations, the meeting. I also do the same thing i... |
But going further down deeper into the productivity hole - I started doing this when I joined GitHub; I created a GitHub project on my actual user profile. Not a lot of people know you can do this, but if you go to your user profile on GitHub, you can create a project for yourself... And because I manage a lot of diffe... |
The benefit of this is that everything's a GitHub issue at GitHub. We use GitHub to build GitHub... So it's not too hard to say "Oh, I've gotta get this conference sponsored." I'm gonna just take that issue and put it in my project board, and I'll just check it tomorrow. |
So GitHub issues and notifications tend to be my email. I don't actually get a lot of emails, to be quite honest, because I turn all those off... |
So that's what I've done... But even deeper, because I do a livestream every Tuesday and Friday on Twitch... My website, bdougie.live, is backed by a GitHub repo. Well, most websites are, but legitimately, the database for my website is a GitHub repo. So all the posts that you see on my homepage are GitHub issues. So b... |
I'm working on a course about automation on GitHub, so I'm kind of over the top when it comes to it... But I'm happy to dig in deeper. It's my job to know how to use GitHub, so I'm sort of over the top because of that. |
**Nick Nisi:** That is awesome. |
**Kevin Ball:** \[28:12\] Alright, I wanna dig in right away. First off, question - are you generating posts directly from the issues then? |
**Brian Douglas:** Yes. |
**Kevin Ball:** Okay, interesting. Because I've done statically-rendered sites were the files are there... But how are you doing that mapping from issue to post? |
**Brian Douglas:** GraphQL. Actually, that's literally the answer. GitHub has a great GraphQL API, so any issue that has the label Publish, it will actually publish it to my website. So I can write up a whole blog post, or -- what I've been doing really is my issues end up becoming blog posts... So if you look at my la... |
Right now I'm rebuilding Netlify with GitHub Actions, which - it sounds sexier than it really is. I'm not running any servers; I just happen to want deploy previews and some other features that Netlify has, but use that with GitHub Pages... So I'm just rebuilding some of those features with the toolset I can use with G... |
So if you look at that issue, or post, whichever -- if you're on bdougie.live or if you're on the bdougie/live repo, you'll see I'm slowly adding comments that will eventually become a blog post. And I'm all about scaling too, as well... So the reason why I just add comments to the issue is because if I can make that i... |
**Nick Nisi:** That is really cool. I love all of the automation going into it, and how open it is... I definitely wanna go check it out. Would that be on your GitHub username? |
**Brian Douglas:** Yeah. So bdougie is my username; if you go to github.com/bdougie/live, or you can go to bdougie.live, which is the website, and click the GitHub link, or click and issue and it'll take you to GitHub as well... But yeah -- I didn't get into this as well... I'm using this tool called OneGraph, which is... |
**Kevin Ball:** And I'm looking at this -- it looks as though, if I'm getting this right, commenting on a blog post actually ends up going to a GitHub comment on the issue... Is that right? |
**Brian Douglas:** Correct, yes. So anybody can add a rocketship to my website and say "Hey, good job!" or thumbs up. That will actually apply to the issue. So I say this out loud; I probably shouldn't say it out loud, but I'm trying to get the GitHub team to add reactions webhooks. If someone does like a thumbs up, I ... |
**Nick Nisi:** That'll be fun... |
**Kevin Ball:** Alright, I just put a rocketship on your Netlify post... This is super-cool. I love the bdougie. |
**Brian Douglas:** Yeah, and major props to the OneGraph folks, Sean and Daniel. They created this tool called OneBlog, which was like the initial prototype of this, and I happened to be an early user of it... So I just sort of took their idea and just ran with it, and that now sort of powers a lot of the stuff I'm doi... |
**Kevin Ball:** Now, if somebody didn't work at GitHub and they wanted to do this - I haven't kept up on with the pricing structures for these different things... Is this something that they could cobble together for free? Which of these services are paid? |
**Brian Douglas:** Yeah, everything's free. Actions - you do have 2,000 minutes for free on an open source public repo... So like on a cron job. Most of my Actions are usually within a minute; they'll build and run and trigger stuff... So I'd have to hit that a lot to hit the limit. So I'm doing a lot of crazy stuff wi... |
**Nick Nisi:** \[32:13\] That's 2,000 minutes a month, right? |
**Brian Douglas:** Yes. And that's across your entire profile, running all across the board. It's 3,000 for paid accounts, so it's a bit of a bump... And obviously, you contact your salesperson for more minutes. I will say though that the OneGraph stuff is all free as well, it's a free product. And everything else I do... |
I just started deploying something to Azure, and I'm just looking at that number to see if I deployed it correctly, or if I can optimize that to make it pennies instead of dollars... And I've just deployed it last week, so it was like 36 cents, or whatnot. So I am all for the 12-cent AWS build. |
**Nick Nisi:** Yeah. Speaking of -- I tried to make a Slack bot using AWS a couple of years ago, and ever since then, every couple of months I just get charged a dollar from AWS, even though the Slack bot is long since dead... And just last week I went in and tried again to try and figure out what it was so I could sto... |
**Brian Douglas:** Yeah. A dollar for every six months is gonna take you six hours to figure out how to turn off. |
**Nick Nisi:** Right... \[laughs\] I just want it to stop, but I know that this is how AWS keeps going, so I'm doing my part. |
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