- OneNote: UI is too much, like PowerPoint. It's not a text-based note app.
- Quiver: https://happenapps.com/ I bought this app. It's great. I've been using it for a long time. But I gave it up when I found notion.so. Quiver doesn't allow me to sync multiple notebooks. Under each notebook, you cannot have a sub-notebook under a notebook (like a folder inside a folder). It doesn't support global search.
- SimpleNote: bad UI. The render is buggy.
- Notion.so: So far it's my favorite. But the desktop app is slow. Especially for work, I need to take a lot of quick notes.
- Joplin: quickly tried but gave it up. Slow and bad UI.
- Notable: https://github.com/notable/notable Nice, clean UI. The render is fast. A great feature of notable is that it has a "copy block" button for the code block. I love the feature. But the problem is I cannot use cmd + w to close the window, it always pops up a confirmation modal. (IMAO, modal is the worst UI ever invented on this planet.) No updates recently. I am willing to pay this app if a new version comes out.
- Bear App: https://bear.app/ Nice clean UI. But the weird thing is in all the other markdown I've used, "-" is for a list, "[]" is for a to-do list. But in Bear, "-" is for a to-do list, "*" is for a list.
I ended up paying two apps, Notion for personal stuff, Bear for work.
> I like Git commit messages. Used well, I think they’re one of the most powerful tools available to document a codebase over its lifetime.
1000000% agree!
One of my co-workers in my previous job, I miss reading his PR and git message. It's such a joy reading his PR. I still remember reading his PR on introducing Babel to our big, old Rails 4 app before webpacker, Ruby Babel Transpiler came to life. It's like taking a journey with him. You can see his smile, struggle, surprise and all the emotional moments in his commits. He put his findings, why he made this decision, and where he found this solution in the commit msg. I learned a lot just by reading his PR.
I think reading a well organized PR, clean git commits and descriptive commit messages (even the code review comments are very useful) is one of the best ways to learn in work, especially for new hires.
I was one of the people being let go in this round. I moved to Seattle and joined OCI as a Senior Engineer at the end of Jan 2019.
Yesterday when I came to the office and was doing my work at 9:00 AM, the whole team about 20 people were called by VP to have a meeting at 10:00 AM. He said the whole team got terminated. We had to turn in the computer by 12:00 PM and leave the office by 3:00 PM. There was no buffer time at all.
Me: "Do I have to pay back sign on bonus and relocation? I've been here for less than 2 months."
VP: "You were supposed to, but I pushed it back to the management. Now you are forgiven. That's a very good question."
Me: ......................&^#^(%#&)@!
Today mark as my first out-of-employment day. I am on H-1B, which is an even worse situation. I'll need to find a new job ASAP :(
They didn't give me any specific reasons. The recruiter called me one day after my video interview. She only told me they didn't think I was a good fit. In the interview, I finished the coding questions in 30 mins. Then I just had a chat with the interviewer. The conversation went fine. He told me he was full-stack eng and worked on frontend. I asked him whether he worked with Benjamin De Cock, a stripe designer I admire and if he could share some stories. He said yes but didn't want to share stories.
I was in a small company working on payments team as fullstack engineer. Given the big volume, stripe would be too expensive for us. So we built our own credit card processing service. We integrated with FirstData directly. While I was working on payments, I kept following news about stripe. I love their design and appreciate the deep care they put in their product, even the documentation. I like Patrick and John's inspiring stories and love watching their interviews. After 3 years, I was looking for a new opportunity. Stripe is my dream company. I was lucky to get a phone interview. The conversation went fine. The coding problem was easy. But I could tell the interviewer was not impressed. I couldn't figure out what and why. I was depressed when I got the rejection email. I'll definitely want to try again. Anyone advice or suggestions Stripe folks could offer would be greatly appreciated!
> Tesla uses airtable to track inventory of vehicles as they leave the factory; $20 billion office-space startup WeWork is a customer, too.
I've tried airtable and used the tool to plan my trip to Japan. It's great. I heard a few iOS developers use airtable as a lightweight backend instead of firebase.
I like its idea and design. I was trying to use it as replacement of my evernote (It's probably too weird to you). Then one day, I found https://notion.so. I decided to switch to it. It's faster and have offline support. But the only missing part is notion.so doesn't have API yet.
Can't express enough how much I love stripe's design. It's so inspiring. After working in a SAAS company for 3 years, I learned how difficult it is to fight for a good design with engineers, PM and managers. Lots of them don't care or respect about design.
This is from Apple Special Event 2017
(Steve Jobs’ voice) "There’s lots of ways to be as a person. And some people express their deep appreciation in different ways. But one of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out. And you never — you never meet the people, you never shake their hands. You never hear their story or tell yours but somehow in the act of making something with a great deal of care and love, something is transmitted there. And it’s a way of expressing to the rest of our species our deep appreciation. So we need to be true to who we are and remember what’s really important to us. That’s what’s going to keep Apple, Apple, as if we keep us, us. "
The design of stripe is definitely a good example of this statement.
I want to make a movie to capture the feelings :)