Nota Internship Spring 2022

• Nota Internship Spring 2022

• Internship 2022

• March 8th to March 31st

  • Can only work for 13 days?
  • It’s quite short, but I want to make the most out of it.

• Preparations

  • Even though there’s not much time
  • /shokai/Scrapbox Development Process
    • It’s old, but seems interesting~
  • What are WebSocket and MongoDB?

• Things I want to gain

  • It’s important to think about this beforehand
    • Of course, there will be many unexpected things, but having a clear sense of purpose is important
  • There are many points mentioned in Do I Want to Develop Products?
    • I also wanted to learn about those points at Edmodo, but I wasn’t able to work on the actual product
    • The experience of thinking about features, implementing them, and merging pull requests (or not) repeatedly, and the know-how related to that (?)
  • It would be great if I could gain something more than just an improvement in technical skills by the end of the internship, although I’m not sure what that would be
  • It seems important to have questions and look them up in past records

• I wonder what (takker) will do

  • They seem to be a much greater asset than me (blu3mo)
  • /villagepump/2022/03/08#622711e24bb2e2000037e55d

• Thoughts

  • I feel like I should write this on /nota, but for now, I’ll write it here casually and organize it later when writing an article
  • /nota
    • When I need information, I usually find it by searching on /nota
      • The power of 30,000 pages
      • If you’re looking for something in the technical field, it’s usually there
        • If it’s not there, I add it (blu3mo)
    • It was more like “Oh, this is how it is” rather than being surprised when I joined
    • It’s interesting that you can see all past discussions
      • Like the moment Scrapbox was named Scrapbox, or the process of Helpfeel becoming a business
  • It’s a bit difficult to have separate Scrapbox accounts for /nota, local, and personal accounts, and it can be confusing
  • When I listen to conversations or read /nota, I become curious about what will be interesting in Gyazo/Helpfeel in the future
  • It’s convenient to be able to directly read the code when I’m curious about the specifications
  • It gets me excited when Scrapbox runs locally
    • If something can’t be achieved with backend modifications and can only be done with userscripts, it gets even more exciting
  • I really like the internal communication and collaborative work system (for me)
    • It’s nice to have a constructive discussion about that system and make it better
      • It’s unique to Nota that anyone can participate in the discussion, not just the decision-makers
    • Furthermore, it’s interesting to see the flow and history of how it has been done so far by looking at /nota
      • You can quickly find out why things are the way they are
      • And Scrapbox supports that
  • Since I already have some knowledge of Scrapbox’s API and DOM structure, understanding the codebase is a bit smoother
  • It’s interesting and educational to see the overall picture of how the company operates on /nota
    • The company doesn’t just run with people writing code (of course)
    • Marketing, customer support,
    • It’s related to the previous point, but it seems that there are mechanisms in place to make those aspects transparent
      • Like all hands meetings
  • Even if I only do small bug fixes, it doesn’t seem like I’ll gain much other than technical skills, so I want to propose and discuss experimental features as well
    • Let’s see how the existing features were born on /nota
  • Simply put, I think It’s Fun to Make Things We Use Everyday- I remembered that writing code is fun, right?

Random Notes:

• The placement of the upload button is strange.
• Lens.
• Feeling safe in seclusion, private transparency, transfer duplicator.
• It’s difficult to tell who can see the links.
  • Until now, everyone could see them.
• Example of an art museum.
  • I want to see the sentence even after it’s cut out.
• Don’t use Scrapbox for KJ method or brainstorming.
  • Weak in expressing information using anything other than /villagepump/text
• Multilingual support.
• There are two types of content embedding.
  • Like tweets, etc.
    • It’s nice that you can modify them.
  • Those that are converted as they are.
    • Images
    • YouTube
    • Files
  • Those that are converted in a modal.
    • Tweets
• It might be worth considering a new form for date pages.
  • When you link a date, it could be compiled or something.
• Support for nodes of thought.