I built a single page website that copies the current time to my clipboard and I paste it into my messages. It's inconvenient and I don't do it irregularly.

I'll have to look into the extension described in the link. Thank you for sharing. It's nice to know it's a shared problem.

Look into keyboard macro programs for a much easier way to do this. I use Espanso and have it set up to paste the time anywhere I type `;tm`.

On windows you could write AutoHotkey macro to do it for you - just paste current time at the cursor at the touch of the trigger key.

I really enjoyed your experiments. Thank you for sharing your experiences. They've improved my prompting and have tempered my expectations.

Thank you for sharing. This was a fascinating read.

I spun off geek-themed speed dating to geek themed singles mixers. They have party games, couch co-op and vs games, karaoke, and get-to-know-you games to encourage strangers to talk to each other. A drink is included with the ticket.

I tried creating my own loot box reward system where I earn points for completing tasks (literally spare change), and I can use the money to buy a die roll, with a d20 dictating what prize I got. Prizes would be things like permission to buy Pokémon cards or a full price video game, etc, with a guaranteed "high rarity" prize every X rolls.

Maybe it'd be fun to combine this with your receipts, where random tasks reward points to earn prizes.

Or maybe this is just more procrastination!

> Or maybe this is just more procrastination!

Well, what is life but procrastinating on death?

I learned basic electronics repair from modding and building arcade controllers, aka Fightsticks. That eventually evolved into Game Boy repair, and iPod retrofitting, and electronics restoration. It's kind of like cooking; find something you want to make, then follow the directions, and then make something else, and eventually, you'll come across a problem that you have the foundation to solve.

The most basic core of practical electronics repair is that there are things that should be conductive and things that shouldn't be conductive and you need to figure out how to do either.

Crappy consultant? That's redundant ;)

Seriously, though, within the context of software development, these are all issues I've encountered as well, and I don't know how to program: sweeping solutions, inability to resolve errors, breaking down all components to base levels to isolate problems.

But, again, I don't know how to program. For me, any consultant is better than no consultant. And like the author, I've learned a ton on how to ask for what I want out of Cursor.

As a singles mixer host and social interaction coach, I think everyone should do anything they need in order to ease social anxiety. Something is better than nothing.

For some people, memorizing names is effortless, and for others, it takes a sneaky glance at a name tag or using a celebrity-name mnemonic or asking for the 3rd time.

How much more marketing did you do for the 2nd and 3rd attempts vs the first?

And what did you do/do differently?

In terms of paid marketing - zero. In terms of time spent - 6 months.

I spent lot of time in building a 69k strong community over Instagram. No ads, no shoutouts from influencers, no usage of promotions from others.

Added valuable posts every day. Interacted with fans regularly. Cared for them.

In previous attempts I was in the false illusion of "make it and they will come".

I heard an anecdote that there's a Feng Shui ritual to exorcise the demon that harms sleep.

They perform the ritual and then take the TV out of the room.