A sales email in a tricky situation due to how the potential client responded or writing a personalized cold call email? Of course!

Edit: As I learn and get better at sales I imagine it’d get quicker, but I’m learning while working with the AI.

I do write something, and then work to refine it. Like I said, I spent 15 to 20 minutes on it after writing it.

I’m a software developer, not a writer or a salesperson, but I have to do sales to sell my software.

I can write a first draft of a sales email to get my ideas across and then have the AI look at it from a specific perspective I don’t have the skills in.

I dont just take whatever it says and hit send though, I have a conversation with it to tweak things i don’t like, remove things that I don’t think are needed or add things it missed.

Do this for 15 to 20 minutes and I end up with a much more polished email that won’t come across as AI slop with all the personal touches I did want to add.

With Plex every time I try to sync new content I put in the folders it says I’m unauthorized and have to close the server and reopen it.

Haven’t bothered to trouble shoot it yet as it’s annoying but not annoying enough.

I once made a big fuss about a very critical security vulnerability because they didn’t want to deal with it and there were very serious ramifications to the business depending on how it was dealt with. Like the company was exposed to multi million dollar lawsuits over it, maybe more, possibly worse than lawsuits

It was the only time I’ve ever been classified as not a team player, and they used that incident as the reason in the report.

Edit: they did eventually deal with it properly, but not before trying to hide it and lie about it to our customers first.

I don’t even see why them roughly representing time is a problem due to them raising in a fibonacci sequence.

If they were a day each, it’s not like the jump from 5 to 8 means it’s going to take 3 more days, but that it’s gotten more complex and maybe it’ll still be 5 or 6 days but I can’t be sure because this one has a lot more unknowns that might not reveal themselves until I’m into it. That’s why we’re forced to go from 5 to 8 and not a 6 or 7.

The uncertainty is built right into it, so it can’t be exact time, but at the same time trying to ignore that they’re still time related is stupid.

I can’t give this enough upvotes.

Closed PRs and Closed issues?

What if it’s a side project with 1 star, 0 issues (because no one made any) and no PRs because no ones done work on it?

Ya, that’s a really good point as well.

The stars are more important when you’re a developer. It indicates interest in the project, and when it’s a library you might want to use that translates into how well maintained it might be and what level of official and unofficial support you might get from it.

Other key things to look at are how often are they doing releases and committing changes, how long bugs are left open, if pull requests sit there forever without being merged in etc.

Kinda defeats the purpose of doing it private and local.

I wouldn’t trust any claims a 3rd party service makes with regards to being private.

It definitely feels great when I get to remove the

//hack abc due to bug in library xyz version 1.4.5, issue tracker says it’s fixed in 1.5.0. - link

// I told them I'd do this but only if they gave me time next sprint to fix it  - 12-03-1997

I mean, on TV every character seems to be able to hack any system in a few seconds.

They clearly must have done some research by watching some NSA hackers who can hack every system.

I feel like something like https://www.storj.io/ is on the path to what we would want/need?

There might be some additional requirements for a true CDN to ensure data is closer to where it’s needed and in as many regions as needed though with the right amount of bandwidth. The data gets stored all over the place, but that doesn’t mean its optimal. But they do seem to claim it’s faster on their website…

Edit: For those not wanting to click, TLDR is they use excess storage around the world and make it accessible anywhere, and safe from failures. People with excess storage can join the network if they have enough storage/bandwidth and pass some tests. Their API is S3 compatible.

Those times you see an oddly specific and very weird rule and you just know there’s probably a great story around it.

Same problem on 1password.

As a mobile developer I can tell you that working with Android keyboards has been a giant fucking pain in ass since inception to today.

While I can’t speak specifically to why they both seem to have this problem, I wouldn’t be surprised if the OS is part of the problem.

I wouldn’t be shocked that if someone had it working consistently, it might be because of the most heinous hacks, or private greylisted APIs or some other nonsense.

“hey I wrote this 6 years ago and it still works but it’s gross … please don’t judge me”

“hey I wrote this 5 years ago and it still works but it’s gross … please don’t judge me”

“hey I wrote this 4 years ago and it still works but it’s gross … please don’t judge me”

“hey I wrote this 3 years ago and it still works but it’s gross … please don’t judge me”

“hey I wrote this 2 years ago and it still works but it’s gross … please don’t judge me”

“hey I wrote this 1 years ago and it still works but it’s gross … please don’t judge me”

“hey I wrote this last month and it still works but it’s gross … please don’t judge me”

“hey I wrote this yesterday and it passed QA but it’s gross … please don’t judge me”

You mean the one that no one asked for, makes it harder to do the primary thing the app is designed to do, and all the involved developers have told management it’s a bad idea with a detailed list of why?

The actual problem is if you don’t add new features, there’s nothing for people to do beyond maintenance and you aren’t going to keep good developers to only stick around for that.

So your option is new features or a new app entirely, but coming up with other good apps isn’t easy and is a huge risk.

So if you actually did good market research and spoke to users, you could find new features to add.

Beyond a tiny company or sole developer, it doesn’t really work.