Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist

Posts tagged “productivity

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Why Travel Unlocks My Best Ideas
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Why Travel Unlocks My Best Ideas

How Hospitality, Not Hustle, Became My Creative Operating System

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The Future Dev Team: One Senior Engineer and an Army of AI Agents
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The Future Dev Team: One Senior Engineer and an Army of AI Agents

How Mission-Command Development is reshaping engineering productivity, architecture, and delivery in 2025

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The Idea That Hit Me 2,500 Miles from My Laptop (And Sparked a New Dev Tool)
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The Idea That Hit Me 2,500 Miles from My Laptop (And Sparked a New Dev Tool)

How a vacation without my laptop led me to build VoiceCommit - an AI-powered voice-first tool that turns spoken commerce and development ideas into GitHub Issues, PRs, and updates.

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Command-Driven Development Logging with Visual Progress: A Better Way to Track Development with Claude Code
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Command-Driven Development Logging with Visual Progress: A Better Way to Track Development with Claude Code

How I created and use a command-driven system in my everyday commerce development process with Claude Code to document progress with visual screenshots - giving me complete control over when and how enterprise development gets documented.

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Claude Code Is More Than a Dev Assistant—It’s My Project Manager
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Claude Code Is More Than a Dev Assistant—It’s My Project Manager

Discover how combining Claude Code with a simple ROADMAP.md file transformed my personal project management and delivered consistent progress on my blog.

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How I Add the Weather to My Obsidian Daily Note
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How I Add the Weather to My Obsidian Daily Note

Use iOS (or macOS) Shortcuts to add the day's weather for my location to my Obsidian Daily Note.

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How I Use iOS Shortcuts to Add Today's Local Weather to My Obsidian Daily Note
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How I Use iOS Shortcuts to Add Today's Local Weather to My Obsidian Daily Note

Use iOS (or macOS) Shortcuts to add the day's weather for my location to my Obsidian Daily Note.

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Automating My Obsidian Daily Note
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Automating My Obsidian Daily Note

How I use iOS Shortcuts to automatically create and populate my daily note.

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Quickly Add VSCode to Your iPad
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Quickly Add VSCode to Your iPad

A quick walkthrough of how to add VSCode to your iPad home screen.

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How I Import My Meetings Into My Obsidian Daily Note
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How I Import My Meetings Into My Obsidian Daily Note

How I automate importing my Obsidian daily note's meeting schedule from my Outlook calendar events.

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5 VSCode Extensions I Use Daily to Manage My Remote Teams
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5 VSCode Extensions I Use Daily to Manage My Remote Teams

Essential VSCode extensions for commerce frontend development and team leadership. Tools that enable efficient development across multiple e-commerce projects and remote team management.

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How I View My Latest Readwise Highlights in My Obsidian Daily Note
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How I View My Latest Readwise Highlights in My Obsidian Daily Note

I created an Obsidian Dataview query to view my latest Readwise highlights daily.

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First Look at the Official Readwise Obsidian Plugin
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First Look at the Official Readwise Obsidian Plugin

A rundown of the official Obsidian plugin from Readwise

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My Obsidian Daily Note Template
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My Obsidian Daily Note Template

How I use Obsidian to track my day-to-day.