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Hey, I built this. Let me know if you have questions.

Because the more powerful parts of the business want it to look green all the time, regardless of the reality. It would be easier to automate it. But they want to pretend that they…

To double-down on this, I wish companies more broadly would stop lying about their uptime on their status pages. It just creates chaos and confusion. It also forces otherwise-hones…

Yeah all my projects are down. Really irritating that they never update the status pages automatically, or even in a timely manor. As if customers won't notice.

At a high level, this is how Google Pay and Apple Pay function now. They create a temporary card number that's used in place of your own to insulate you from being tracked (to some…

I'm always tempted to push people into programming. Mostly because I wish I had learned it in high school instead self-teaching in my mid-20's. But really, at their age it's mostly…

For decades large portions of the US population have prided themselves on ignoring whatever the government says. Until the bodies start piling up in their own town, people will not…

> Slack, Dropbox Paper, Google Docs/Sheets/Diagrams/Forms, Salesforce, LeanKit, Figma, Jira, Trello, Asana, Zendesk RoleUp handles most of those, but some don't offer user APIs. Wh…

If it's just keeping track of the users and who has access, I built https://roleup.io to solve that problem. And I'd be super interested to know which 60 services you use. Beyond s…

Why not just use Okta or something?

I think it's a bit of a fake idea in the sense that you ALWAYS want to ship the most minimal thing you can, as soon as you can. But what that means will depend on the company, the …