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We were using an API driven inbox service at dayjob and they nuked their free tier. Their service has so many features we don't need for our simple integration test I thought I could probably compete on price and a minimum feature set. When I found this domai available it felt too good to pass up.

Of course, it turns out that software is the easy part of launching a SaaS business. I've not had time to do anything about marketing it but I'm hoping I can push through my natural sales discomfort and make progress. Any advice on resources for getting good at sales would be welcome!

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EDIT: and I forgot, graphid — a keyboard driven image editor, my imagined "vim for images". All the actual image manipulation is done with image magick, there is a utility to build up image magick incantations and store them as canned commands to operate on your selection.

- what is the expected gain? Years+Quality

- what is the maximum gain? Years+Quality

The older you are the smaller your maximum gain of Years can be.

But I gotta tell I am not looking forward to deciding which is worse when my little kids grow up and I either have to: - let them use TikTok (or whatever it is by then) and suffer what I know to be an insidious poison - make them be on the outside of the circle and suffer exclusion by their peers because they don't get any of the memes

I've been the only kid in class without the new 18-rated Call of Duty game, or indeed a games console to play it on. At the time, it sucked. In retrospect I totally agree with my parents, young children should not be playing games about shooting each other! (Of course other parents may disagree)

CoD was only the new hotness once every couple of years. TikTok can make something the new hotness every week.

My only real hope to escape this dilemma is that enough other parents in my cohorts realise how poisonous TT is and the problem goes away... I can't say I'm optimistic.

How much value are you going to be able to extract over its lifetime once your customers want to see some additional features or improvements?

How much expensive maintenance burden are you incurring once any change (human or LLM generated) is likely to introduce bugs you have no better way of identifying than shipping to your paying customers?

Maybe LLM+tooling is going to get there with producing a comprehensible and well tested system but my anectodal experience is not promising. I find that AI is great until you hit its limit on a topic and then it will merrily generate tokens in a loop suggesting the same won't-work-fix forever.

I know there are other solutions to this particular problem but this model is extremely easy to reason about. When the application accesses tenant objects or delegates that access with pre-signed URLs it is doing so with ephemeral credentials that literally could not access the objects in another tenancy.

That and a similar DB isolation, allows most of our handlers to be very simple as far as tenant isolation goes.

Just before they announced that I was working on creating org accounts specifically to contain S3 buckets and then permitting the primary app to use those accounts just for their bucket allocation.

AWS themselves recommend an account per developer, IIRC.

It's as you say, some policy or limitation might require lots of accounts and lots of accounts can be pretty challenging to manage.

When I learned German the word for potato was Kartoffel.

"You have 100M MAU, you need to be keeping up with the standards"

What is the incentive for the citizen to make sure their authentication isn't shared?

Aggressively limit speed and enforce it until you're onto the fast roads.

If cars could only roll on at 10mph I'd feel a lot safer and I'd probably be able to use my bike and make better time for the local stuff.

I would be worried about collision safety though, I am not going to persuade everyone in my neighborhood to stop using cars in a hurry and there are not bike routes between me and school, library, shops, ...

If you spend 4 hours/24 hours on your phone then every 20X you'll have lost 3.33... X.

I think the author is using year and waking-years but it doesn't parse well for me because you don't get close to 20 waking-years for every 20 years.

The way I read it TFA is claiming that the Devs who built the Natascha AI suite did solid work.

Contrary to prior reporting there really was an LLM based product at Builder in addition to their earlier business of a large pool of contractors cranking out apps on demand.

https://off-the-rails.netlify.app/

https://openid.net/wg/connect/

   How does OpenID Connect improve security
   Public-key-encryption-based authentication frameworks like OpenID Connect (and its predecessors) globally increase the security of the whole Internet by putting the responsibility for user identity verification in the hands of the most expert service providers.
   ...

Who is the victim?

The person who bought the stock you knew was worthless or sold you the stock you knew was gold.

Why is insider trading a crime?

It's an unmanageable market advantage, if we didn't disallow it then people wouldn't play. The people who make the rules benefit from people playing.

Yikes.

EDIT: https://justapedia.org/wiki/Category:Justapedia_controversia...

Yikes yikes.

We update assignees to reflect when more than one person is working on something but we never assign work to individuals or pairs. We use an aggressive WIP limit of engineers/2+1 to prevent a ton of in flight tickets but other than that we're quite free to move around as long as we're moving the stuff on the board right-wards.

I think that's a thing that contributes to our success at pairing actually. Since we all value schedule flexibility quite highly we get on well with pairing a bit when we happen to have synchronized working time and working on independent subtasks when that is more convenient for us.

https://tuple.app/ - this tooling helped a ton, it's expensive but worth it to reduce the friction to start a pairing call to 0. Pairing on zoom, slack, meets, etc. is all much more painful. VS Code LiveShare esque things are free and can probably work as well with some discipline.

We've shifted our work discussions almost entirely to async threads on our ticketing system, we frequently hand tickets over between timezones and our manager types can find out what's going on to the nearest couple of hours in a few minutes any time they like. If we need sync conversations (which does happen of course) we record the outcome for async consumption.

We do frequent pairing, it can be quite pleasant to spend quite a while on the phone doing work when you don't need to sit in 15 hours of meetings a week!

Honestly I'm not sure I could go back. Standups for sure would be a huge turnoff for me at any new job.

Shame, it was an interesting and well written article.

When I'm hiring a contractor, I'm not really interested in paying them to learn, I'm interested in getting my need fulfilled as efficiently as possible. If the problem I have is my square zinc kitchen sink it makes sense to find someone who already knows about them.