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I appreciate this blogpost. I'm the one at Railway responsible for this decision, so I wanted to share some context from our side. First off, sorry you got nailed by this. I genuin…

I've been here. Taking a vacation never helped, because I'd be stressed during the vacation thinking about "work" in an active manner. What really helped me was fully disconnecting…

I'm curious - why? I personally find the search summaries helpful more often than not, and it works nicely in products like Google Sheet. There is an extension posted here a few da…

No questions, just wanted to say hi, congrats, and thank you for building Yaak :greg:

You should have 50/50 odds. If you don't, you're dropping the overall bar on each hire.

And one more to the casket - https://killedbygoogle.com/

I highly recommend Fastmail [0] for this purpose. I have been with them for 5 years, and they're rock solid. I have ~10 domains on it, they support wildcards (send/recv at anything…

How are you "training" them? It's important to drill down into what they're struggling with before you throw resources at them. I've found that code reviews are the best way to men…

Support experience can make or break a product experience for users. I think there's a lot you can glance about a company/product's trajectory by looking at how their support funct…

`requests` is just a HTTP library. Classifying it as a "scraping library" is confusing; it's part of the web scraping toolkit, but it's not a "scraping library".

What makes you go “wow” at documentation? I’m looking for some inspiration on technical product documentation in the DevTools space (think cloud platforms, CI/CD, etc.)

ORMs come to mind. There's typically a lot of reflection and dynamic instantiation magic baked into its classes, which you really have to hack around typing to make it work nicely …

Same. I treat them as immutable DTOs [0], or "value objects" if you will instead of "just a plain class". An unfortunate drawback is that not everyone is familiar with the concept …

I've been having a blast writing plain old HTML templates for the past few weeks. It's a traditional Django app. I also use plain old CSS instead of frameworks like Tailwind (well,…

> Anything else worth looking into? I've been looking into using ChatGPT as a writing assistant for myself. If you write a lot, it's worth a shot. > What AI tools should I evaluate…

I'm in the process of standing up my own hardware (1U server/some simple compute box + FreeNAS) for doing this. There's a variable I don't understand with self-hosted cloud/storage…

I'm currently doing so. I'm pretty early in the process, and I've had a great experience thus far: quick replies, nice challenge (it was actually a challenge for me because I haven…

Thank you for sharing. This is a perspective I’ve never had, it’s going to give me a lot to think about tonight :-)

Generally, I think having an open handbook is the trending culture. Building in the open is becoming more popular - GitLab really moved the needle on this, so IMO from an outsider'…

GabeN hit the nail on the head. If you make paying for a service/content impossible or hard, people who want it will find other ways to get it. Regional DRM/content licensing is on…

Is CS/programming something you're interested in or passionate about? > but I have no skills nor experience to show for it Skills and experience can be acquired. My inbox is always…

The train is the longest part of the journey, and seemingly one of the calmest (compared to subway and that short tram ride). Are you able to do any deep work (reading, learning, b…