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Dude I'm so pumped for you. Seeing you bring Margin Muse into existence is exciting. Loved the accompanying video.

To answer some of your riffs. Yes I remember early "AI" code completion, obviously much has changed in the last year with being able to ask GPT how to write with more specifics in a specific language. I feel like it's a net win, more people will build hopefully build useful things. A frustration about editors now is the chrome. I want a smart blank slate. One where all my VIM keybindings work and more. both for prose and code. A treasured artifact from childhood would have to be my guitars. If I look around my studio there is almost nothing older than a decade except those guitars. My parents bought me my first one when I was 11. Still have it. changed out strings, pegs, bridges, pickups and pick guards on that thing and it still keeps going.

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Thanks man! Interesting point of key bindings; they're the opposite of "interface solutions." They also lie in the realm of the power user. Interesting to think about how UI can gradually teach a new user keybindings. Nice to hear about your guitar, which reminds me.. I'm long overdue to fix mine up.

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...super inspiring and impressive mr. dean...

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Thanks Mr. Foote, I look forward to the day when I have your consciousness trapped in my margins 24/7.

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...i am working on that app...

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Congrats on being an uncle! As a parent, I just love that your dad kept a text file. I keep a note for each kid. There's probably a better way to keep records (some parents sends emails to their kid with important stories; lots of parents document every single thing on facebook or social media starting with the sonogram). I like my Note file.

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Nice! How old are your kids? How long do you plan to do it for?

Little milestones are cool to have, but I also wish I had some big picture context on my family's past. Imagine being able to read a paragraph describing each year of everyone in your family? And imagine turning 12 and then learning, "here's what all my ancestors did when they were 12?"

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Hi, never thought of it like that Michael. I write a few words for big things and dates and big feelings. My youngest is 5. I kept notebooks like “dear child” for each but I wasn’t digital so I don’t know how we would find anything if things burn down. Sad but true.

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Aug 27, 2023Liked by Michael Dean

I have a list of app ideas that I've never had the time to bring a prototype into form. Maybe now is the time https://twitter.com/mostlynotworkin/status/1419157006326263813?s=20

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Neat to see some spatial interfaces in there! (though that would be the hardest to do with AI, if even possible). Margin Muse was definitely mid-level difficulty for me. Should've probably started with something easier. Worth starting with ideas you can finish in a single day.

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Aug 27, 2023Liked by Michael Dean
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Never thought about sharing AI process logs. Cool idea. Did you finish this?

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Alas, no, but at least got a feel for the process it would take

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Your "one thing" epiphany reminds me of everything that boggled me about the French. The guys I surrounded myself with did so little in comparison to me and my friends in America. Once, someone told me how he's so busy he has no time to pop by for dinner. I asked what he's doing and he said he's going to a doctor's appointment at 2pm. Mind you, he had no work that day nor was the doctor's appointment far. He had one to do and everything else was more than that.

Maybe this is why the French have done such cool things over the centuries.

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This French guy gets it. That's pretty extreme, but makes sense. I'm probably guilty of finishing the one thing, and then filling my remaining time with a bunch of little things. While I aim for 5-7 core things per week, there are maybe 100 small loose ends. I guess one approach is to ignore all the little things until they become big things? Feels irresponsible. Or maybe, the little things that matter have a way of getting done without consciously planning for it. WIP theory.

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Aug 27, 2023Liked by Michael Dean

Inspiring as I’m in a similar profile. Design background (mechanical) so the world of cad is familiar. Know about software and can intuit what works and doesn’t but never programmed something fully. Looking forward to how your tool plays out. You’ve got plenty of folks to beta test

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Will try and share updates. And yeah, if you have a design background, I bet you have a bunch of pre-reqs that will help you pick up programming quick.

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Thanks Daniel! Would paying for API Keys fall in the category of microtransanctions? Interesting how that's a no brainer for AI, but hasn't quite worked for content.

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