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Decisions:
- If you can’t decide, the answer is no.
- If two equally difficult paths, choose the one more painful in the short term (pain avoidance is creating an illusion of equality).
- Choose the path that leaves you more equanimous in the long term.
Also, never outsource decision making to anyone who doesn't bear the consequences of the decision.
Over the years, power slowly returned back to management and the industry figured out how to slice the creative role into small cogs: QAs, FEs, BEs, SREß, OPSs, POs, PMs. It's ten people now instead of three crafsmen. They can now follow a very strict process to produce average software with a lot of overhead. Customers don't care because one half is forced to use it and the other don't have a taste of what good software is. Partially, because they use abysmal MS products. Apple briefly showed to an average Joe what is possible when people care, but they're slowly losing it.
Now it's node/js everywhere and fierce competition being a ticket taker. People with no passion who are here just for the money and who don't care about the code. People who are here to play promotion politic games. Coding is a regular job now which pays decent and has low barrier to entry. You can fake it very far now with AI assistance.
Sadly, XMTP died once platforms gained enough users. The protocol itself is quite complex because of custom extensions (XEP) and different clients supporting different set of extensions.
I wasn't able to find a good desktop/mobile experience where I looked into self-hosting the XMTP server.
P.S. I assume 1200 elo in chess com scale (not lichess / fide elo) and bullet chess variant?
The landing page compares it to xtermjs as superior version. What I find strange, for example, FrankenTUI has a code explorer tab, but it's impossible to select any text or interact with a scrollbar. The "hotspots" section in the codeview misinterprets mouse clicks, highlighting line that is different from a click.
If it meant to be keyboard-first, I find focus management implementation unintuitive and shortcuts hard to discover.
I think companies who buy software by feature checklists would love this sort of products.
I believe founders closed their service and started a new one based on AI (some yers ago).
It wound be nice to have such tool that can sort through communication and highlight important action items, I want this, but I want this to go further: I define my goals and priorities and it acts as personal assistant with preparing weakly goals, daily action items, managing my todo lists, outsourcing some part of my todo list, etc.
The important part is I can't just hook up some random saas into all my business communication.