Project Planning - Don't Get Too Caught Up on Tools

How do you stay focused when working on large projects that span many months?  In this duo episode, we talk about Project Planning techniques and trends!  We also cover solving personal data storage problems and building CNC machines & printers. 

00:00:15 Introduction

00:01:33 UML

00:05:22 Home NAS and other personal storage solutions

00:18:09 Homebrew CNC machine

00:29:37 Raft (Consensus Algorithm)

00:36:54 The Mathematics of 2048

00:45:44 Book of the Show

• 00:45:57 Manager Tools 
• 00:49:10 Make Magazine

00:57:50 Tool of the Show

• 00:57:51 Workflowy
• 00:59:10 GitHub Desktop

01:01:00 Project Planning

01:22:11 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Tools:

• Workflowy: https://workflowy.com/b/
• Github Desktop: https://desktop.github.com/

Companies:

• Manager Tools: https://www.manager-tools.com/
• Make Magazine: https://makezine.com/

Other references: 

• QT Designer: https://www.qt.io/
• Shapeoko: https://carbide3d.com/shapeoko/
• Curves and Surfaces by Bartosz Ciechanowski: https://ciechanow.ski/curves-and-surfaces/
• Inkscape: https://inkscape.org/
• Raft: https://raft.github.io/

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