Depending on one piece of software for years of study is a real risk and mostly a manageable one, provided you know which half is portable. The cards are portable, the scheduling is not Your notes and cards export…
A deck built up over two years. A handful of cards come round constantly and I get them wrong nearly every time. I recognise them, I sigh, I fail them, and they come back in a day. The software flags some of them, which…
Moved our shared dependency versions into entries in yesterday. Locally is clean, is clean, git status is clean, lockfile is committed. CI dies immediately: So it thinks 8 dependencies were added, which is exactly the 8…
14 packages, pnpm workspaces, with remote caching enabled. On my machine the second run is 100% cache hit in about 400ms. On CI it is 0/14 every single time, 6m41s, on a commit that changed one README. Things I have…
Monorepo, 11 packages, about 180k lines of TypeScript. takes 4m12s on a cold cache and it is now the longest thing in the pipeline. Format check is another 40s on top. Biome is obviously fast. My hesitation is rule…
Term starts in three weeks and the entire course is one PDF. Last time I tried this I made cards straight from my highlights, ended up with roughly 2,000 sentences with a word missing, and abandoned the deck by week…
Six months in. A card with a nine month interval came up yesterday and I had absolutely no idea. Not a hazy memory, nothing. It shook me because I thought the whole point was that this stops happening. Is this expected…
22 packages in a pnpm workspace, one Vite app that consumes about 9 of them directly. from a cold dep cache takes 41 seconds to first paint, and during that it prints the "new dependencies optimized" message twice and…
I have about 1,400 cards in Brainscape from a course that shipped with them, and roughly 600 in Anki that I made myself. Brainscape asks how confident I felt on a one to five scale and quietly decides when to show the…
I made about 400 cloze cards straight out of my lecture notes, one deletion per sentence. I pass them in review at maybe 92 percent but I completely blanked on the same material in a practice exam. It feels like I am…
Starting a new repo. Three engineers, maybe 8 packages to begin with, deploying to Node 22 on Lambda. Runtime is Node, that part is settled the question is only what installs the dependencies and runs the scripts. Bun…
Second year of an evening course, one deck of about 3000 cards, currently 30 new a day and roughly 200 reviews. I have 45 minutes on weeknights and nothing on Fridays. Splitting by chapter would let me focus on what is…
Two years of a five box paper system for medical terminology, about 900 cards, and it works. Everyone tells me to move to an app for the scheduling. The boxes already space things out, and the app adds a phone in my…
First time working in a monorepo, six months in and I still cannot tell what is a design decision and what is a mistake nobody has fixed. We have a package that basically everything depends on. If I change one function…
I was away for 16 days and did zero reviews. The queue now says 912 due and I get maybe 40 minutes a day before work. I did 100 yesterday and the number went down by 60, which is demoralising. Is there a sane way to…
I timed myself: median answer time is about 4 seconds. Two hundred and fifty reviews should be twenty minutes of actual thinking. Instead I am at the desk for an hour and a half and I finish irritated. I am not…