Ben Halpern

Posted on Mar 23, 2022

What's a new thing you've started using recently?

#discuss

New programming language, productivity app, whatever.

What is new to you, and why did you start using it?

Top comments (109)

GrahamTheDev • Mar 23 '22 • Edited

gather.town/ - it is a virtual office webapp and it is such a fun way to work in a remote team.

You have a pixel art office that you walk around and objects you can interact with.

You have rooms and spaces that when you enter them you can interact with other people in that space and you automatically get connected via a video call within the application.

You can even decorate your desk, although it can lead to "escalation" as happened with us....

Things escalated quickly!

I "came into the office" yesterday and people had started decorating their desks!

I am a competitive so and so, I had to make my desk awesome and create a custom desktop background with the daily.dev logo on!

I woke up this morning and the design team fired back with an amazing zen garden space!

But as I said, I am competitive so....

I hate to think what I will wake up to tomorrow 🤣

If you work in a remote team, it is a great way to get that "office feeling" while working remotely!

FJones • Mar 23 '22

Oh god, that looks like the perfect way to kill productivity in just the right ways. I might toy with that a bit!

GrahamTheDev • Mar 23 '22 • Edited

Haha, true!

To be fair, it took maybe 15 minutes to design my desk and maybe 30 minutes to create a custom overlay from an image.

I can imagine that you could definitely spend hours on building a space, but overall it is a really good way of running a remote team and quite efficient with the jumping into meetings by simply "walking" a few steps rather than finding email invites, checking your camera settings etc!

Hope you have fun with it and let me know if you end up using it for anything (fun or professional!)

leob • Mar 24 '22

Lol reminds me a little bit of ... Microsoft Bob! but I expect it's better than that ;)

GrahamTheDev • Mar 24 '22

OK so now I have to go look up Microsoft Bob! 🤣

leob • Mar 24 '22

There you go: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob

Is it a carbon copy/spitting image, or not?

GrahamTheDev • Mar 24 '22

Brilliant! It is funny how things come full circle isn't it!

leob • Mar 24 '22

That's what I thought haha

Ashwin Hariharan • Mar 24 '22

Oh wow, this looks like the Pokemon Emerald game I used to play long ago on the Nintendo Gameboy Advance! I spent countless hours on it. 😆

GrahamTheDev • Mar 24 '22

That was how I described it to my fiancé, then she said she never played Pokemon...so it was a terrible explanation 🤣

Alexandre Alencar • Mar 24 '22

That's gorgeous!

GrahamTheDev • Mar 24 '22

I love the art style they picked for the components!

Anish De • Mar 24 '22

Lol, this is epic!

Diner Das • Mar 23 '22

I've started using Remix — a breath of fresh air in web development.

Tonghe Wang • Mar 23 '22

Holy smokes! This thing looks fun.

Isaac Lyman • Mar 23 '22

I've started using Obsidian to take notes and write on the go. I even wrote a plugin for it. I'm not a power user by any means, but having Markdown files that sync to all my devices without the friction of visiting a website and logging in is proving to be a game changer.

𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️ • Mar 28 '22 • Edited

Obsidian is pretty awesome; I've been using it to keep the occasional notes but also to write my blog posts (which I actually built an SSG for just last week)

I also started using it for work when I have to find my way into a new project, but for obvious reasons I can't share any of those notes here 😅

RatCat • Mar 23 '22 • Edited

i have started to learn tailwind css :
Here is the sample site i have done so far.
cutt.ly/oSGLZ0p

Tonghe Wang • Mar 23 '22

Yo bruv! Great work. Looks beautiful!

RatCat • Mar 24 '22

thanx a lot

Jonatandb • Mar 24 '22

Nice! Are you doing a paid course or just looking the official documentation?

RatCat • Mar 24 '22

@jonatandb thanks !
i just go with official documentation and when i stuck to understand the documentation, i tried random youtube video on demand.

Jonatandb • Mar 24 '22

Awesome! I'm thinking to learn it too.

Good job, lots of luck! 💪🏻😎

RatCat • Mar 24 '22

surely ! its amazing.
I have a plan to upload more things based on tailwind.

RatCat • Mar 24 '22

surely ! its amazing.
I have a plan to upload more things based on tailwind.

Jonatandb • Mar 24 '22

Great, so I will check your Github profile again when I start to learn it 😉

Tina Huynh • Mar 23 '22

I started my bullet journal. Though I am still figuring out my preferred layout, it has definitely helped me with keeping track of my daily and weekly tasks. Libraries are also now my favorite place to study and get work done. Programming in a quiet place is so relaxing especially with some instrumental music playing. I'm starting to use Material Design and learn TypeScript as well! Always studying, always learning :D

Tonghe Wang • Mar 23 '22

Been bullet journaling for a while. Love it very much. It makes me more productive and more connected (if that's the right word) with myself.

Tina Huynh • Mar 23 '22

Yeah! It really helps me organize my thoughts and see my progress (or even my lack of) throughout the weeks to help me define the areas I can improve on in the future

Toni Engelhardt • Mar 28 '22

I've been working on a minimalistic bullet journaling app since a while, maybe you guys wanna check it out: journalisticapp.com

Tina Huynh • Mar 28 '22

I had put the concept on my project list. How beautiful

Toni Engelhardt • Mar 28 '22 • Edited

Thanks! If you have any feedback I'd love to hear it!

Adrien de Peretti • Mar 23 '22

medusajs to create an e-commerce platform, for which I ended up creating a custom Framework/wrapper around called medusa-extender 🚀🎉

Ashwin Hariharan • Mar 23 '22

I started using an iPad, with the following apps:

Coursera for learning 🎓
Goodnotes for taking notes for my coursework ✍️. The cool part is, i can open Coursera and Goodnotes simultaneously on my iPad, and start taking notes with my Apple Pencil as I watch and listen to the videos. The experience is surprisingly good.
GarageBand for MiDi connection with my keyboard for some music practice. 🎹

Donnell Wyche • Mar 23 '22

I've just started learning the Tailwind Alpine Livewire Laravel (TALL) stack to build my next SaaS, CareNote. I've also been playing around with Meilisearch and Soketi, which are really cool tech.

Ali Zulfaqar • Mar 25 '22

Hello there, just want to ask if there is any difference between current websocket and soketi? I'm new in this area would like some clarification if possible. Thanks!!

Donnell Wyche • Mar 25 '22

soketi is a websocket server just like pusher. soketi.app is a drop-in replacement for pusher. pusher costs $49/month vs a digital ocean droplet for $5, which is plenty fast to soketi.

Ali Zulfaqar • Mar 25 '22

Is it the same as socket.io/ ?

Donnell Wyche • Mar 25 '22

Yes, socket.io is built on top of the websocket protocols. soketi.app is a self-hosted, open-source websockets server.

Bobby Iliev • Mar 23 '22

Materialize! It is a streaming database that takes data coming from different sources like Kafka, PostgreSQL, S3 buckets, and more and allows users to write views that aggregate/materialize that data and let you query those views using pure SQL with very low latency.