Just give people who reach $10m net worth a “Congratulations you won at capitalism” diploma and tax them 100% after that

The key part here is that (at least initially…) they won’t put any existing subreddits behind a paywall. So users’ habits won’t really be interrupted.

Just saw the other day that the Pixelfed developer pushed out a new feature pretty quickly and it reminded me of how much faster you can push new features out when you’re working on a small team with very few developers.

Then I realised that… At the place I work at (an app most likely installed on your phone) - well every change will have a huge impact. If 0.05% of the users’ performance is degraded - that’s a shit ton of users. So we have processes in place. We test on all kinds of devices before releasing.

Running a high quality service at scale is hard and it’s expensive and it’s not always fun because you have to leave your cowboy developer guns at home and do the homework before pushing to production.

I spent way too much time trying to understand why I wasn’t taken to the comments when I hit the comment icon…

… in the screenshot

Yeah, all apps advertise “no algorithms” - well those algorithms are what is pulling users back and back again and the more you get people to open your app - the more likely it is that they’ll contribute something.

I have to remind myself to open Pixelfed. Which is how I want it to be and how it should be. But I also understand that none of my friends will go there and look at nothing and then check in again a day later.

Especially a password vault… Imagine your server going down while you are away from home and suddenly you’re locked out of everything.

It’s probably implied that if not enough people take this offer - people will be fired.

I’ve been through tech layoffs. Random people are axed and people who thought about leaving anyways stay. This is a much better solution where those who considered leaving anyways can take them up on the offer.

Maybe they just want to downsize cause there isn’t as much to do nowadays when the OS is so mature?

I go through a cycle for this. I leave Reddit because I hate it. And then I go here and well it’s quite obvious it’s a certain type of people who are willing to jump through hoops and use the fediverse. I find most of the opinions here to be a little bit too extreme for my taste. I just want to discuss football (soccer) and tech…

But I agree with you. It only feels empty because we all decide to not hit “post”.

Remember when Apple released the $1000 phone and it was a big thing?

Eventually this will be the normal.

Much harder to get distracted with a pen and paper. Main reason I use it.

Ah, might be! It’s been 10+ years since I tried it. Back then I found it very hard to navigate

Same with Lightroom vs Darktable.

Books on Google Play Books

I just try really hard to do the small things all the time. Whenever I leave a room, I try to bring something with me that shouldn’t be in that room. Whenever I go into the kitchen, I try to clean one thing in the kitchen whether it’s putting something in the dishwasher or throwing out an empty package.

Just do small things whenever you have a moment.

Our place still looks chaotic though so don’t expect miracles.

Really hard to answer. I have five years of development experience and I struggle with some aspects of learning Flutter. But I think that’s mostly down to me trying to skip ahead of tutorials and documentation.

So my advice would be to try to take it slowly. It’s not a race and the more time you spend on the fundamentals - the more you’re going to benefit from it in the future.