There is still so much old school thinking and process in this. Go through this process that has been the same for the last decade+ but now you just don't need a team of people to do it. You can just use Claude instead! Really, we are in a paradigm shift, not in a "do the same thing but with less people" shift.
Hey @gschier this is awesome. I've been a long time user of Insomnia and since the acquisition it's ever so slowly, well... it's been a challenge for me.
I didn't know you created Yaak!
I just downloaded Yaak and it's been awesome, thank you!
I downloaded this through AUR on Arch and one bit of feedback is that I wish you'd make the sig verification a whole bunch easier, thanks!
> To ensure Aha is actively recruiting and not just vacuuming up resumes: How many positions are you hiring for now and how many have you hired in the last 6 months?
This is a great and valid point. Not only for this company, but companies in general where we see a high volume of recurring posts over a period of time.
I've had a very similar experience to yours. It allowed me to quickly understand why we see their job postings littered across the web at such a high rate over the years. My take away was that they demand more than they are willing to provide.
Codespaces user here (I set it up for the teams), for about the last 1.5 years in a large corp setting with teams using it.
My experience with is it has been wonderful for getting started and immediatly becoming productive with very complex systems. Most of those systems have 1 (or very few) experts who need to help everyone else with their setups. When problems arise, and they often do, they've become the bottleneck and Codespaces removes that. Those experts can focus on keeping just that up globally versus locally for each individual.
Outside of that scenario, complex systems, I've experienced it to be overkill. The negatives that come along with using such systems haven't outweight the benefits.
> "Anchor Brewing will no longer make its iconic holiday beer, Christmas Ale. The spice-laden winter warmer has been a brewing tradition since 1975 and something that Northern California beer lovers look forward to every November."
> Maybe it's just because I'm getting old, but this whole "Don't build it yourself, buy it. Focus on your own business, and whenever you need something extra, use a Saas" seems to me like an anti-pattern. I cannot back it up, it's a gut feeling.
A lot of this now is also about supporting others within your community. I'm sure you do this with code, support junior developers? Now we're in an era where you can do the very same, but for those creating products, too.
> I don't know. Building a product with so many dependencies feels very amateur, error prone, and prone to instability.
I bet if most were honest, and reviewed their code dependencies (external libraries) you could make the exact same statement.
> Again, it's just a gut feeling from some old dude that has been doing software since the late 90s. Maybe it's just the way things are done nowadays.
It's just an extension of doing what you're most likely already doing, and firmly believe in.
> I know this sounds horrible but in the days of covid and working from home, what are companies supposed to do if they have to lay off large amounts of people?
This isn't about a Zoom call.
This is about companies taking massive, quick capital to rapidly expand head count at such a rate to which this inevitably occurs.
It lacks responsibility, care, empathy, or even the slightest bit of concern for those that have invested their opportunity cost of being a part of your company.
> The problem that the article doesn't address is that users don't actually seem to mind using terrible software so long as it solves the problem they face better than not using it. I could list literally hundreds of half-assed, broken, bloated applications that I've encountered in the past 25 years that have done very well simply because they kind of solve a problem a bit for the user.
This is ZERO snark, but I'm genuinely curious for lots of examples. I ask because I'm confronted with this problem ALL THE TIME working at startups that obsessively focus on visual elements that won't move the needle, versus being obsessive about solving pain better than others.
I need to start building a list that I can just pull out at a moments notice.