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@seancjohnston

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Communicating stuff like this in an honest and vulnerable way is always the best approach imo.

I also think you can cut yourself a little slack - being overwhelmed by the workload of a project is not a moral failure!

20.02.2026 19:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Waterfall is back with a vengeance baybee, awooooo

18.02.2026 07:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
11.11.2025 22:30 πŸ‘ 15422 πŸ” 6202 πŸ’¬ 59 πŸ“Œ 119

Not enough people realise that there’s a multi trillion dollar industry dedicated to weaponising human psychology against underdeveloped brains to extract maximum shareholder value. Phones are almost compulsory to function as part of society but also require eternal vigilance - for adults too tbh.

28.10.2025 19:11 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My favourite bun gotcha is that β€˜bun test β€”coverage’ will completely ignore files that have no tests at all, so your coverage looks artificially high.

I found this out because it said coverage was like 45% on an enterprise app that had a total of 26 tests.

27.10.2025 22:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Dahir Insaat running out of ideas smh

27.10.2025 21:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I also used it for a while before I ever mentioned it to anyone else at work, so no. I don’t even think it *can* do anything to your repo that can’t be done in Git already, jj just makes doing a lot of things easier.

26.10.2025 21:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hmm seems a lot let’s Streamline The Experience (delete 95% of them) while preserving The Same Great Service (lol)

24.10.2025 07:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s okay you’ll wake up and this will all be a dream. It’ll be summer 2001, and your overnight download of Hybrid Theory will be finished.

23.10.2025 19:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Why Jujutsu is a step up from Git There's a new, hot version control system that replaces Git called Jujutsu (jj). I started to use Jujutsu a couple of months ago, during my summer vacation. I had read posts online from a lot of peopl...

"Why #jj-vcs is a step up from git"

www.danopcode.com/why-jujutsu-...

23.10.2025 18:35 πŸ‘ 54 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

"Asbestos isn't going away, we need to work with it"

"VR is unavoidable, everyone will be using it"

"Metaverse is the future, you don't want to be left behind"

"3DTVs will be the new standard"

"Radium is here to stay"

"NFTs aren't going anywhere, you should embrace it"

23.10.2025 11:57 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

If it’s not important enough for you to create it’s not important enough to make me look at it.

21.10.2025 19:02 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

If you’re generating an image for your article with AI, you didn’t need one in the first place

09.10.2025 09:08 πŸ‘ 239 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 8

You ever fire up an IDE and then get writer’s block because you don’t know what you want to build, only that you want to build *something*?

18.10.2025 13:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well this was prescient. Big mental health crash and now it’s two months later. Ah well.

17.10.2025 21:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I still think the most accurate and consistent way to think about generative AI is that, in every instance, people exclusively use it for tasks that they don't have any respect for or give a shit about.

10.10.2025 06:14 πŸ‘ 467 πŸ” 115 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 11
r/SaaS
u/soasme
I deleted ALL AI features... and user growth went UP.

Everyone's busy adding Al to everything.
I did the same for indie10k.com but it didn't work.
I removed all of fancy Al stuff - Al coach, Al growth ideas, Al "personalized" advice - everything.
Guess what?
I see more registered users and higher retention.
That actually make me wonder why now i have one page with one button, without all that Al thingy, but it does better?
Here's my question:
Is Al feature actually helping SaaS grow?

r/SaaS u/soasme I deleted ALL AI features... and user growth went UP. Everyone's busy adding Al to everything. I did the same for indie10k.com but it didn't work. I removed all of fancy Al stuff - Al coach, Al growth ideas, Al "personalized" advice - everything. Guess what? I see more registered users and higher retention. That actually make me wonder why now i have one page with one button, without all that Al thingy, but it does better? Here's my question: Is Al feature actually helping SaaS grow?

boost your user satisfaction and growth with this one weird trick (removing the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason)

13.10.2025 18:44 πŸ‘ 2719 πŸ” 803 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 25
Google search for "all you can eat buffet near me" with an "ai overview" of the results saying that you can use Google to search "all you can eat buffet near me" to find a buffet.

Google search for "all you can eat buffet near me" with an "ai overview" of the results saying that you can use Google to search "all you can eat buffet near me" to find a buffet.

We are on the cusp of AGI, definitely for real

17.08.2025 20:56 πŸ‘ 3661 πŸ” 777 πŸ’¬ 60 πŸ“Œ 50

Hello my #fsharp friends, where do you host your stuff for cheap?

17.08.2025 21:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes it’s hard keeping up motivation for things. I want to do so many projects and tasks while keeping the house in order (which it already is not).

17.08.2025 07:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Today doing Work felt pretty chaotic, and my evening has had zero time for relaxing too. My daughter has been a cutie today though and is currently sleeping on me while I read tech blogs, so it’s not all bad.

07.08.2025 20:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Washington Post: β€œIs fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: β€œHere are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

06.08.2025 12:28 πŸ‘ 26596 πŸ” 6835 πŸ’¬ 171 πŸ“Œ 168

It feels weird writing code without tests first. Aah yes I’ll just trust my brain to figure out that this works correctly (?) instead of the safer option: making the computer yell at me if I mess up

06.08.2025 20:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Spent a good chunk of today doing Commit Graph Surgery on a messy feature branch and I didn’t consider setting my computer on fire and escaping to the woods even once. At this point you can pry #jj-vcs from my cold dead hands

05.08.2025 21:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
East River Source Control

So excited to hear about ersc.io #jj-vcs

05.06.2025 18:54 πŸ‘ 68 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 4

Inspired by a few blogs I read recently I’m building my own blog in #fsharp and finding it very easy. It’s one of my favourite langs but I don’t use it nearly enough.

04.08.2025 21:44 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Trying to work on being a bit more visible, a bit more public and a bit more vulnerable in life and in my profession. Hopefully I can maintain a vague semblance of a real social media presence here and officially graduate to Real Boy

01.08.2025 19:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Respect for doing all this with a new baby. My daughter is around 7 months now and we’re only just learning to tread water.

01.08.2025 18:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Extreme Programming is a weird name because it sounds like I’ll be yeeting untested bug fixes into prod while ramping my BMX off a halfpipe and flipping customers the bird, but it’s basically the opposite of that

29.07.2025 22:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0