Sean CoatesTricking software into working since the 1980s.
I do all kinds of tech things. Here you'll find: rants, ops/devops, web, iOS, microcontrollers, electronics, food, beer, opinions, and whatever else is on my mind + in the conversation.
Technology at Studioworks: studioworks.app
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Sean CoatesWe’ve launched Studioworks!
(To the public; we’ve been in private beta for a while.)
It’s a business management platform that’s launched with a focus on really nice invoicing for creative people, and it’s what I’ve been working on all year.
Would really love any help you can offer in spreading the word.
It’s at studioworks.app but my post has a link that will get you a free trial:
https://seancoates.com/blogs/studioworks
Sean CoatesWe’ve launched Studioworks!
(To the public; we’ve been in private beta for a while.)
It’s a business management platform that’s launched with a focus on really nice invoicing for creative people, and it’s what I’ve been working on all year.
Would really love any help you can offer in spreading the word.
It’s at studioworks.app but my post has a link that will get you a free trial:
https://seancoates.com/blogs/studioworks
Sean CoatesI need a stronger word than “exhausted” to describe trying to survive the constant technology rug pulls.
Maybe you could—instead—make a product that provides a valuable service in exchange for hard-earned money?
I really don't want to have to constantly worry if my inputs will be used to train cannibals or exploit kindergarteners or whatever.
Oh, and it's okay for you to get SOME of our money without trying to take ALL of it at every single opportunity.
What’s even left? Just Linux…?
Sean CoatesMastodon (though fundamentally better) still doesn’t feel as full as the best years of Twitter did (to me, at least).
Keypassium (via Strongbox) doesn’t work nearly as well as 1Password once did.
Orion isn’t as good of a browser as pre-shenanigans Firefox was.
(How far back do we note this horrific trend? Moving domains off of Godaddy?)
I’m really really dreading the “I wish this was as good as The Good GitHub” feeling of whatever we have to use next for code.
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Sean CoatesI need a stronger word than “exhausted” to describe trying to survive the constant technology rug pulls.
Maybe you could—instead—make a product that provides a valuable service in exchange for hard-earned money?
I really don't want to have to constantly worry if my inputs will be used to train cannibals or exploit kindergarteners or whatever.
Oh, and it's okay for you to get SOME of our money without trying to take ALL of it at every single opportunity.
What’s even left? Just Linux…?
Sean CoatesI’ve been working away from my desk a bunch this past month. Looks like I’ve used over 100GB of mobile data.
Sometimes that connection is great. Sometimes it’s a bit flaky.
Universally, though, web sites work much better when they don’t try to get fancy with how the UI loads.
A winning strategy here is simplicity. HTML + CSS; minimal JS.
It’s so frustrating for a GitHub issue page to stall out trying to backfill content. Just give me the rest of the HTML, not your cutesy page building jank.
Sean CoatesThis single GH issue page is currently at 88 resources (2.45MB/579KB transferred), and most of the “vendors” and “react” requests have timed out after 3 minutes.
I see the issue title and description, but I can’t work on it because someone made the comment/actions form into a broken asynchronous mess.
I seriously used to point people at GitHub as “here’s someone who’s actually doing progressive enhancement well, and it’s not just super simple stuff”. Not anymore. )-: React ruined GitHub.
Sean CoatesI’ve been working away from my desk a bunch this past month. Looks like I’ve used over 100GB of mobile data.
Sometimes that connection is great. Sometimes it’s a bit flaky.
Universally, though, web sites work much better when they don’t try to get fancy with how the UI loads.
A winning strategy here is simplicity. HTML + CSS; minimal JS.
It’s so frustrating for a GitHub issue page to stall out trying to backfill content. Just give me the rest of the HTML, not your cutesy page building jank.