This is the nerdiest thing I've ever seen, and I absolutely adore it.

Same! As a data engineer I have long wished we could get away from airflow and move back to Unix pipelines. This is really cool.

This is really smart. It’s low friction. It’s a drag to need two devices, but it is a low compromise bridge to building up something like a pinephone/pinebook’s ecosystem without needing to keep swapping your sim card.

its how most home networks already work, when you think of it. you have a small locked down isp-provided technically-a-computer, that manages your connection, and behind that, you have all your own stuff on your home network.

if anything, it would be mobile computing "pulling the modem out of the computer", like home desktops did in the 90s. I probably still have that 14.4k pcmcia modem card laying around somewhere...

> I have no idea what I’m doing and still made money from it

I feel like this describes most people that start their own business at first. It just usually isn’t a lack of experience in producing the product. It’s a constant tradeoff of what skill to invest more time into to keep it afloat. They’ll learn sooner or later.

Entrepreneurship is search. The vast majority of new businesses fail and this is the unacknowledged truth.

It's just search, and most people who try will discover ways to fail, not to succeed.

This attitude towards exposing customer data as a palatable oopsie on someone’s path to learning (by… outsourcing the effort of learning to an LLM?) is truly disgraceful.

Without a horse in this race, this precedent makes me deeply uncomfortable.

The super mario bros movie, 1993. I’ll die on this hill

Lol, I don’t think so, at least not outside branding and corporate circles.

It can still be endearing to have quirks, but I think there is still value in awareness of yourself and your patterns.

This is true in any relationship. The goal is not “winning”, but making sure everyone’s needs are met.

Fun fact - you already have them. The gnu project made ‘info’ pages decades ago to solve exactly this problem. It never caught on outside of the gnu project though, sadly.

It doesn’t have to be 17 years old though. I think the point he’s making is that it’s still solving problems for him. I have one that’s 12 years old. It just does what I need to. Parts are easily replaceable. I keep doing the cost/benefit of upgrading but I just don’t need it.

I would wish that they would also:

- Listen to their team. Issues arise, complexity may be higher than appears. Being receptive to reality and not being obstinate.

- Manage priorities, when there is too much to do everything, so progress can continue instead of gridlock by stakeholder updates, changes, and context switches leaving you feeling like a husk

- Not an expectation, but I find the good ones almost play the role of team therapist. I had a very kind manager stay up until midnight with me being supportive when it got really bad. The opposite of this is the not-my-problem people

- Really really good managers understand the pressures you are under, and give suggestions on how you can work smarter.

I do think sometimes there is pressure and they get in the way of work to produce visible artifacts to have something to point to that they did. I’m empathetic, a lot of their work is invisible.