danfrost

What chrome plugins do you use? Are they stand alone (e.g. the augment the browser behaviour) or do they have a "backend" somewhere (e.g. Evernote, Google Keep etc)?

Tech debt is often a taboo. Talking about it can be bad and arguing for addressing it can be worse.

But I'm not sure everyone talks about "tech debt" in the same way. I've seen people use it as excuses for "time on what I want to do" and definitely seen management refuse it for that reason. But I've also seen management refuse addressing it to the detriment of the product/project.

So what, actually, is it? And how do you explain it?

Asking kind of for fun, kinds of for serious :)

Do you read the comments on HN links?

Why? What do you look for?

And 2nd question: do you read the original link before or after the comments?

And why..?

(I'm just interested for reasons I won't share yet as I don't want to influence the answers!)

I have built a bot version of a daily gratitude checkin which will expand to cover all areas of life that you want to work on. It works on noticing opportunities instead of setting goals.

If you have goals or habits you want to develop, this bot could help. I've found it hugely useful in keeping my mood up and keeping me focused on long term objectives even when stressed and distracted.

It would work for sports, career, education, family or anything else you want to improve.

Ping me on twitter - https://twitter.com/danfrost - if you're interested in being a beta user for this, and help me make a truly useful bot mentor.

[Edit] The bot is current a facebook messenger bot but will be a native app soon, when the details of the chat content are worked out.