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WHPH vs Super Productivity

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:53:23 +0000

I’ve been trying to figure out which productivity app actually fits my workflow. Both WHPH (Work Hard Play Hard) and Super Productivity keep coming up, so I thought it was worth comparing them properly.

WHPH (Work Hard Play Hard)

WHPH is a general-purpose productivity app. It does several things: tracks your tasks, monitors which apps you use and for how long, helps you build habits, and gives you a basic sense of where your time goes. The sync between desktop and mobile happens over your local network – no cloud, no account, just devices talking to each other.

Building a Second Brain

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 10:50:01 +0000

I’ve been reading Tiago Forte’s Building a Second Brain, and it’s one of those books that makes you immediately want to reorganise your entire digital life. The central idea is straightforward enough: your brain is for having ideas, not storing them. Everything else – notes, articles, voice memos, half-finished projects – should live somewhere external that you can trust and search.

The framework he proposes is called CODE: Capture, Organise, Distill, Express. It’s simple, and that’s the point. Most people I know (myself included) are terrible at the first two steps. We capture everything – screenshots, highlights, random thoughts – and then we never look at it again because there’s no system for getting it out.

The line that separates a developer from an administrator

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:36:59 +0000

You learn more from your mistakes than anything else, and I have made my fair share. The trick is to actually learn from them rather than just suffer through the consequences and call it experience.

I have watched developers push code to production on a Friday afternoon because the business was breathing down their necks. The deadline was immovable, the pressure was real, and the production environment was treated as an afterthought. I have seen it happen more times than I care to count, and each time the same thing goes wrong: someone breaks something, and nobody wants to own it.