This is a followup to our previous post on magic strings. There are three (soon to be four) magic hashtags that Beeminder can add to a datapoint comment. They’re reasonably self-documenting and if you’re a newbee you probably don’t care about any of this nitty-gritty. But we just finished cleaning this...| blog.beeminder.com
A magic spell is an incantation that, just by being incanted, makes something happen in the physical world. You say “avada kedavra” and someone dies — that sort of thing. Did you know that’s a literal real thing in programming and it’s called a magic string? We use them in Beeminderland occasionally....| blog.beeminder.com
Welcome to the next post in our Freshening Series. Before we get to that, let’s review our related posts on clearing and preventing backlogs: Redqueening, Inbox Zero, Backlogs, and Fluid Dynamics describes Mark Forster’s Backlog Method — “isolate and redqueen” — using lots of analogies. Control Systems...| blog.beeminder.com
