I think it was Bruce Eckel who said the ultimate destination for programming languages was, english. Which makes sense to me. Doesn't Ruby trail-blaze a little harder towards this next goal than, JS?
chizzl.com is a rolling todo list piece of software, and it was conceived if for no other reason than to address the problem that a notepad won't meet the needs of prioritizing. Priority to tasks is a ever-constant part of a good todo list and re-ordering what the next important task via pen and paper really can't be done very efficiently. I'm happy to say that chizzl.com is dead-simple, so perhaps it's a decent middle-way solution!?
I think perhaps what is novel is having _only_ the next important things up front and center. The rolling todo list was a new term for me. Our start-up chizzl.com offers almost exactly this rolling todo list. I offer anyone to try it out who thinks this type of todo list could work.
Fascinating! I have a personal goal start-up called chizzl.com and I was debating whether to socialize it -- I personally want to keep my goals private but thought the option to share ones goals on a profile page would prove helpful. I will have to weigh this against this article.
Sometimes I really prefer the manual process. For instance, to really learn what each key stroke does, say adding, merging and pushing some git flow, instead of throwing it all in a Makefile, it's nice to write out the 5 or 6 commands so I know/learn what's really going on. I guess to a point I enjoy this process -- once I fully understand then I can live with automating it.
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