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Founder & CTO at Haven Headache & Migraine. Making stuff and helping people is my jam.
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I get this weird dysmorphic feeling. As if I kinda how where stuff is but not really. The last time used windows with any regularity was prob windows XP...
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I will tell you to your face that you are a genius any day of the week!
except not really to your face cause you are v far away.
whatever, you're a genius.
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I think of the economics of SaaS as socializing the development (which you touch on with maintenance/updates) cost. There are exceptions such as anything high bandwidth (video and what not), but a calendar scheduler or uptime monitor isn't going to move the needle on incremental hosting costs.
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Hard Disagree. If an app that used to have verified correct signature suddenly has bad file signing, I def don't want to run it.
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I consider myself unreasonably fortunate that I have a profession that allows me to move away from companies or roles that cause too much of any of those.
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I once worked for a startup that was obsessive about running experiments so they could be “data driven”. What ended up happening was they would abandon everything cause one quick market or product test would fail. Some ideas need to simmer before they pop.
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If there’s anything remote work has taught me it’s that pajamas are actually the best work outfit.
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Well that sounds awesome and fun.
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You might even not need that much. For both habit building and muscle memory, daily repetition is more important than any duration.
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I usually catch up with my digital inventory over thanksgiving and conferences. The holidays are for familial inventory.
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the above link is one of the best posts on AI I've read in months.
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"If you have a strong eval suite you can adopt new models faster, iterate better and build more reliable and useful product features than your competition."
simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/...
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context: Terence Tao is a super genius and famous in STEM, esp Math.
His comment here is pointed at Academia, but actually relevant to all fields and professions. Some failure is totally normal, likely good if you learn from it, and don't let your social media timelines tell you otherwise.
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totally agree especially if the goal is mastery. One nit-picky caveat tho, is that building something takes time and that usually has opportunity cost. Finding the three best books/blogs/videos/etc on a given topic can usually get you 60-70% of the way there and sometimes that's more than enough.
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A haunted house but it’s code I wrote 6 months ago
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I loved his one on the internal combustion engine.
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Just once, I want to see a reindeer wearing a plush car bumper or something. idk.
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in an office environment, you get one of those silly electric heater/coaster hybrids along with a minor dose of environmental guilt.
in a friends home, you smile politely and just die a little bit inside.
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I wonder what absolute truths about reality will seem silly in another few centuries.
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"Medieval stories about the sacred or supernatural—demons, angels, saints, relics and visions—were set in a society where the borders between natural and supernatural were thought to have been thin or nonexistent."
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yup. each paid GitHub plan has a number of minutes per month. I'm no where near that at the moment, but as a dev team or build complexity scales it gets easier to hit that level.
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It’s funny how luck is disproportionally presented in startup stories. For successful ventures no on ever says I got lucky. For failed ones, luck comes up often.
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We did ARM self hosting and now we pay for GitHub ARM runners cause it’s easier. If I ever run out of actions per month I’d upgrade.
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I love it when I can pay someone a reasonable fee for their decades of experience.
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TIL Chesterson’s Fence. What a useful mental model. Especially when an engineer wants to rewrite something or add a new component to my tech stack.
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You should address a hair on fire pain point. Not an itch or irritation. Funny caveat, some customers don’t know their hair is on fire and customer education is an additional burden.
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It’s not enough to be twice as good as the incumbent. You want to aim for 10x better. Likely this means targeting a narrower slice of the market in the short term.
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Younger me: that make that look easy, I bet anyone could do it.
Older me: they make that look easy, they must have years or decades of practice.
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Reddit for me. I had to block it in hosts file to break that really bad habit of typing red-enter after ever new tab
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reminds me of Apple and how they don't source parts for the iPhone, the figure out how to buy, control, partner or otherwise guarantee the entire supply chain of the parts for the iPhone.
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I kind of love this. I’m sure you meant it this way but systems seems to be inclusive of both technical as well as non technical. Making people excel is as much about culture, management, etc as it is about the tech you put together.
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Humor is a superpower.
Although going by the responses to my jokes, I’m less Spider-Man and more two bit, no-name, henchmen. Just call me Thug #3.
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Coding can give you whiplash going from “I’m an idiot” to “I’m a genius”. Or vice versa.