zweicoder

I'm a decent software engineer but when it comes to UI design I'm pretty bad at it and the projects that I build all end up looking quite unprofessional.

How do you all learn to design better? Are there services that can help design the UI for my projects?

I find myself with a plethora of information across a broad range of topics that's only stored in my brain for now. I often forget and have to re-google & relearn the key points.

I need a good system to write down learnings / thoughts that I have, and was wondering what the folks at HN were doing for this!

On Ubuntu every time I want to install something I have to: 1) Google the installation instructions for whatever I'm trying to install 2) Collate all the steps I'm supposed to run 3) Copy all those instructions lines by line into the terminal, which most of the time boils down to adding a ppa / key, running curl to get some other script / binary etc

This quickly gets repetitive especially when setting up several computers. I apologize in advance if it's a silly question, but what's stopping our system package managers from cutting out all these steps? Why can't we apt-get / brew install everything yet? Or why doesn't websites just give a `install.sh` file with all the relevant instructions in it?

Relevant side note: I'm collating a bunch of these install scripts over at https://github.com/zweicoder/asd and https://github.com/zweicoder/asd-modules - very simple and preliminary but would love more feedback and input on this issue before I spend more time on it