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XMPP / Jabber would be more than enough for many small companies. Slack is bloat!

Exactly. I think only software developers believe AI is going to kill app subscriptions, because they're the ones who can actually wrangle the output into something maintainable.

For anyone without dev or product experience, getting beyond a basic feature set and keeping it running reliably (or roll it out to > 1 user) is still a massive challenge.

Just sit down and think hard. If it doesn’t work, think harder.

Me too! I usually get pretty obsessed with a new topic out of deep curiosity. I then dive deep, think about it a lot, hunt down answers to burning questions. At some point this’ll fade and then I feel like I know enough.

I’m not sure where you’ve got the stats from, but student visas granted dropped since 2022, acc to UK gov (-5% in 2023, -14% in 2024).[0]

Combined with universities' increasing reliance on international student income (over the last years) and issues accessing research funding, this can get universities into trouble.

[0] https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...

Yes I’d agree with that. International student income dropped, rounds of layoffs.

Some universities are better at optimising for rankings, see also REF research funding and how much effort and resources are spent on it, which varies by university: https://2029.ref.ac.uk/about/what-is-the-ref/

They make a ton of sense when you’re riding long distance and when you don’t have access to a charger.

So to put it bluntly, sweet talking a president-elect can overturn a Supreme Court decision? Interesting political culture.

Also remember the viewer sees both sides and has complete information, whereas all contestants have very little to go by and no clues are given.

Rest.

It looks a bit silly but also a lot of fun!

To me, this recurring narrative of product versus engineering is both tiresome and misguided.

In well-run companies, commercial, product, and engineering teams are aligned - overused as the term may be. Any misalignment points to fundamental flaws in company culture. In my experience, this misalignment is what causes so much pain in high-growth companies that introduce managerial roles to a previously founder-led culture - not the product owner role as such.

It's counterproductive to stereotype POs as overbearing taskmasters, or to cast engineers as creators of beautiful but useless code. Such perceptions, if prevalent within a company, should be the primary issue to address. There's certainly features that POs don't enjoy working on but they have to - same for engineers (think about all those compliance features).

I believe POs can serve as a vital bridge between commercial and engineering departments. They clarify how features add customer value, explain business objectives behind projects and help decide what's next on the roadmap. Additionally, they help maintain focus by minimising abrupt directional shifts in the roadmap that could waste resources. And they can weigh in on decisions when they see that engineering teams are already strained by other projects or any business-as-usual work.

In that way, everyone is be enabled to do their best work and the PO is not reduced to the cookie cutter version the author portrays in the article.

Lots of people say the fingerprint reader should work out of the box on Ubuntu, but I also never got it to work!

I’d use Apple Maps more frequently, but business data and reviews are just not very helpful compared to Google Maps (at least where I am).

Any alternative search engine that has its own, independent index is worth supporting, imo.

Mojeek results have overall been useful the last couple of times I used it and the team actually responds to search feedback.

I switched back and forth between Astro and Hugo.

I ended up staying with Hugo because I post loads of photos and image optimisation, or responsive images, was much easier to implement in Hugo.

I heard Astro now has better image processing, so I might give it another try as migrating templates and posts between Hugo and Astro was actually pretty easy.

If you buy an off-brand Moka pot, make sure you can change the rubber seal. That's the only part that deteriorates over time and should be regularly replaced.

amen to that!

Congrats, interesting site and I really enjoyed watching the videos.

I found it slightly annoying that navigating back didn't work as smoothly as on YouTube, for example:

When the video is playing in the overlay, the URL does change when you attempt to go back, but the video continues playing. I'm not sure if that's intentional or something that could be improved.

Wipr is a quiet, lightweight alternative too: https://kaylees.site/wipr.html

it’s invisible

For anyone into SID, I can highly recommend C64 radio: https://c64radio.com

I'd like to know what happened to Quora. It's now full of Chat GPT answers and self-proclaimed experts who try to sell you their online course on gemstone energy driven entrepreneurship.

As with any community, the single biggest issue for independent forums was reaching a critical mass of users that kept conversation flowing.

I'd like to know how relevant search engine traffic is for Twitter. I was always under the impression that embed tweets and link shares would be way more important than search.

Woltlab are still around as well. IIRC Burning Board was vBulletin’s fiercest competitor at the time

An expensive mistake, given that a Macbook Air comes with all the equipment the author had to buy extra.

To turn off notification popups, in Safari...

1. Go to Settings

2. Open Websites tab

3. Select General -> Notifications

4. Untick "Allow websites to ask for permission to send notifications"

No more notification popups!

From my experience, it's the business pressuring the PM into situations like this. If PMs want to keep their jobs, they're often just as helpless as the devs having to execute the work.

Absolutely. I worked with a lot of different tools and Jira is as good as any other project management tool. But it just didn’t feel as responsive as, for example, Linear.

Asana was just as bad as Jira in terms of performance, with the added feeling that somehow something was always happening in the background…