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by stevoski 14d ago
This video is simply excellent. Really shows the challenges involved. His other videos are awesome too. He is an expert in making great software AND a great video creator.
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by stevoski 18d ago
> There's an idea in this book, that when using a mouse, smaller buttons are harder to click That would be Fitt’s law, which - if you can believe it - dates back to 1954! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_
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by stevoski 22d ago
A fun YouTube video of Dolly Parton in an Irish pub: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqdKrv1Vh-g “Dolly Parton makes an impromptu appearance at Páidí Ó Sé’s pub in Dún Chaoin, Co. Kerry and takes to the stage to entertain t
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by stevoski 1mo ago
I once met an Irish person who was detained at Beirut Airport when (trying to) leave the country, and who then disappeared into the Lebanese prison system. Really, he just disappeared. Luckily he was allowed to make a call just after being
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by stevoski 2mo ago
Part of the beauty of htmx is how simple it is to recreate. As this post shows, the fundamental concepts of htmx really are straightforward. Of course, there are all sorts of edge cases and minor features to add to make it complete.
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by stevoski 2mo ago
> I've been using htmx for three years now, and it's completely unlocked new ways of building software for the web, especially if you use a server-side templating language. Likewise. 3 or 4 years ago, I ripped out two-thirds of
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by stevoski 2mo ago
As a database person, this was hard to read. I wanted to find out what the problems are and solve them. A db table with only 10k rows? Even a full table scan should be extremely fast. And with SQLite - which I assumed runs in-process, but e
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by stevoski 2mo ago
To the writer of the article: you missed a big opportunity with this article by not having an obvious link straight to your product, Castro, and by not telling us in a few words what it does. It’s not too late to change the first sentence t
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by stevoski 3mo ago
> Congrats on writing a book, big accomplishment! Thank you! The point is that you must make sure your product has the “CarPlay” type of features in order to get new customers for whom those features are must-haves. Beware of spending yo
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by stevoski 3mo ago
I have a chapter in my book Kill the HiPPO titled “Cupholders vs CarPlay”. The premise of the chapter is that some features in software are like CarPlay when looking for a new car - they become an important must-have for the buying decision
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by stevoski 3mo ago
Linear was simple and fast. Unfortunately it is has become an example of creeping complexity. They keep adding new features at a steady pace, each slowly making the UI more confusing.
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by stevoski 3mo ago
We switched to Valkey after the Redis license kerfuffle happened, discovered we were saving money on our AWS bill, and have no motivation to go back to Redis. So we’ve stayed with Valkey.
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by stevoski 3mo ago
> Actual SQL: joins, subqueries, window functions, query plans And indexes. Many times in my career, adding the right SQL index has solved a serious performance problem.
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by stevoski 4mo ago
I’ve been evaluating PostHog for our company. I’ve now made our decision. We won’t be using them. If they are going to position yourself as the non-slimy no-BS guys, they can’t pull this nonsense.
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by stevoski 5mo ago
What are those decent alternatives to Akismet? I went looking earlier this year and found nothing even close to Akismet on a price-to-effectiveness basis.
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by stevoski 6mo ago
Well-written article, manages not to sound rant-y while describing the problem well. I feel like part of the blame for the situation is that JavaScript has always lacked a standard library which contains the "atomic architecture"
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by stevoski 6mo ago
Flickr was the first site I saw where you could edit some text on the screen inline, without a complete page reload to get an “edit” form. Today this is utterly ordinary. At the time, it was remarkable.
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by stevoski 6mo ago
I think this “story” started when The Economist did a filler article about it. The Economist article was based on some pretty weak understanding and knowledge of Kiwis and their culture of spending time abroad. From there the usual YouTube
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by stevoski 7mo ago
My daughter spoke four languages at age 3. Not because she is gifted, but because she grew up in an immigrant environment. One language with me, another with my partner who speaks a different mother tongue than I do, and the two local langu
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by stevoski 7mo ago
Oh those Slicehost articles were excellent. I felt like I could actually do my own sys admin by following them.
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by stevoski 8mo ago
Fogbugz, if the first version even existed in 2000, was not a SaaS. Nor was Jira, by the way. Both products were initially once-off purchases that you had to install and run on your own infrastructure, and with new, major versions packed wi
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by stevoski 8mo ago
For many of us, the way we manage software projects has changed has changed so much since the days when Joel wrote this. It was a different age, with different products. I’m sure there are still products built the old ways, but Joel was wri
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by stevoski 8mo ago
> What surprised me was how much the ugly first version taught me that planning never could. Fred Brooks, author of “The Mythical Man Month” wrote an essay called “Plan to Throw One Away” in 1975. He argues much what you’ve described. Of
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by stevoski 8mo ago
“Damn”, this is good. It takes me right back to 1998, making my first few web pages - with a hand-rolled index page. I probably used NotePad. And how easy it was - I went from reading a “how to HTML” guide to having a page about whatever ho
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by stevoski 8mo ago
A fine time to acknowledge Scott Adams’ remarkably simple and clear financial advice: https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/scott-adams-financial-advice/ I think it is pretty good. You can, of course, debate it - and HN
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by stevoski 8mo ago
Right, but you can do a one-off purchase to get the product as it existed at the time. Instead they offered all future improvements in the price. This is not sustainable once your customer growth dies down, as it eventually did.
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by stevoski 8mo ago
As a fellow business owner, I’ll always feel bad when business owners need to make these types of decisions. I bought Tailwind UI - I always thought it was a critically bad business decision from their end to keep giving me additional new s
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by stevoski 9mo ago
What a great writer! Slightly off-topic, but when learning to speak a new language, it is helpful to actually speak the language as often as you can. There are a couple of websites that make it easy to book short conversation practice wit
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by stevoski 10mo ago
If you enjoy these types of stories from video game industry veterans, I recommend the My Perfect Console podcast. https://www.myperfectconsole.com/
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by stevoski 10mo ago
I wrote up my thoughts on this into a longer post: https://killthehippo.com/posts/fix-bugs-or-add-new-features

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