andymci.bsky.social
Professional geek. Amateur dad. Occasional doodler. Casual gamer. Toronto suburbanite. Building things online since '99.
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AFAIK they’re entirely Canadian, based in Toronto, privately owned. They’ve been on my radar for years but never pulled the trigger until now.
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DC is in Toronto. Did an IP lookup to make sure. 😅
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HostUpon Business Plus. First time I’ve been on cPanel in a while. Pretty nice!
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Getting my first tat tomorrow. Lowkey excited to zone out and read while they’re doing it.
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Mental training, in the reps
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Just sprinkle a little !important on there
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Crushing deadlines and days filled with appointments = “I wish I had more time for deep work”
Days with no meetings, open calendars = “What am I even doing with my life”
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Oh good it’s not just me then
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There's one reason why I think programmers love dark mode, and I feel it's not so mentioned (even when you ask around).
I think programming is less about reading and much more about orienting yourself in a class/file, and for that reason you don't read the words as much as you look at their colour.
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Nice! Good to know. Thanks for the context. 🙏
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Looks right up my alley! Added to my “gotta try this out” backlog. 😄
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Love to see it and the approach you’re taking (re: eyes on B corp in the future).
Another positive step for a growing, decentralized ecosystem around Bluesky and the At protocol.
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Sounds beautiful. After seeing the backlash in Portugal and elsewhere, though, I gotta ask — what’s happening with the locals?
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Madman
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TL;DR
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“sorry my bad”
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We’re like medieval monks preserving the knowledge of navigating file systems and troubleshooting driver issues
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Rough equivalent IMO is how the early promise of SaaS and cloud services was that there would be less overhead.
I know sysadmins who stressed out because their on-prem NOCs were being replaced.
15+ years later and they’re still doing the same kind of work, but with different infrastructure.
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Yeah. I think the middle ground is AI as a utility, a building block, while the end result and overall project/product is still driven and managed by real people.
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End of the day it’s all traditional stuff.
Awareness = reach and impressions. Build the audience, share often.
This’ll also get you the opps to connect and collaborate with others.
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Do screencasts and demos. Share those on social.
Point them to your newsletter so you’re not dependent on algorithms to build your audience.
When you’ve got something ready early users to test, promote that to your newsletter. If others hear about it and want to test, get them on the newsletter.
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Who are you building the product for? Join their groups, attend their events, read their posts. Find their issues. Reach out 1:1 and ask for feedback on what you’re building.
Build in public. Document the progress. Get a newsletter started so folks can follow along.
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Turning that into a sustainable product for the long term, having interdependent systems, scaling the necessary operations, etc… around it? That’s a whole other game.
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I’ve had several heated debates this week about the implications of prompt-built apps.
Scraping the web and spinning up a directory site, all by prompting, is one thing. If that’s the end goal, great, more power to you.
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So much time spent on Gaming Zone and GameSpy.
Q3 Arena hook n’ rail servers all night long…