Steve Bussey

Just got my author copies of "From Ruby to Elixir"! Now that Twitter hides likes, you can like this tweet and no one will know you secretly like Elixir. #myelixirstatus

@bcardarella Yea for sure I get the frustration there. That would piss me off if I was having issues with servers on their platform

@YOOOODAAAA My gripe is they're selling a Platform As A Service without the Service.

Seriously, fuck fly.io

@bcardarella They're in the right from a "they can do that" perspective. But I 100% think it's a crappy short-sighted business practice. So I'll vote with wallet and also stop endorsing them.

@bcardarella I was able to get the report finally. It took about 2 weeks and purchased via separate org. Small thing, you could argue it's fine, but not an experience I've had with any other vendor. Especially critical subprocessor

@bcardarella I specifically ran into issues when I realized I would need to change my billing model to add the soc2 addon. Instead of being chill and just sending report, they basically said only option is to change billing. I ended up buying it on a separate account to get the audit docs

@bcardarella Basically held the report hostage ("just give us some $ no biggie") They were the only vendor we had that did this. I just don't support it and think it's a shitty practice. I reached out to them respectfully about it and never heard back.

@danielzarick With how hostile LinkedIn is, making your own with AI seems like the most likely future for most LinkedIn related integrations. Pretty slick.

The chrome extension I used for scraping LinkedIn posts got deprecated. So I had Claude code whip me up a better one, which also lets me push/update right into our Notion database where we track our posts. Works super well.

@helloitsolly @benpricedev @lightyoruichi Why do you need to know what's going on such a short scale? Are you providing value during that time or is it to make you feel comfortable? Daily updates is generally fine and expected.

@benpricedev @lightyoruichi The whole point of documenting Linear is so I don't have to interrupt the engineer No updates = I don't know what's happening = I have to ask. Good Linear discipline is what buys the engineer uninterrupted deep work. Is that reasonable?

Yesterday was a horrible #buildinpublic day I got rinsed by 100s of engineers for being a micromanager I was defensive and overwhelmed, and trying to explain my own preferences for how Senja should be run I know I am not perfect and am working on myself But I also trying to build a tiny company where every team member works in the same way, and there are no exceptions for engineers I need to do a lot of reflecting and have already been working on my need for control with my therapist for several months That said I also think it's okay to have a working style many people would hate, even if it scares away certain talent Senja has always operated like a sports team where each Linear issue is rapidly being passed between team members like a ball Deep work is part of the day but typically we communicate beforehand that you will be out for x hours Even when working on an issue alone people are expected to document what they're doing regularly. Why? -> It produces better work when you're reflecting -> It cultivates high energy -> It stops people from asking what you're doing -> It reduces the need for meetings -> It makes sure no one else is blocked -> It allows others to take over the issue -> It allows me to understand how you think -> It gives the AI context I am being told to remove this expectation but I think this style is something I want to maintain but with a lighter touch and much slower ramp up You can also see this style in my own marketing work Document as you go

@helloitsolly yikes

For transparency, I think this message was the issue

Another engineer quit midway through a trial $9,000 a month and apparently keeping Linear updated as you go is too much Listed twice in job description Designed to facilitate remote work and fewer meetings

@newrelic one could argue that the value of your platform is APM / transaction traces. PLEASE get rid of the bar at the bottom of the screen that blocks the trace UI. Only way I can find to get rid of it is with inspector + delete element

@bcardarella @flydotio I think it's been ~18 months. But they didn't auto-migrate older apps AFAIK. When I was on v1 I was about to churn from Fly because I was so frustrated. Honestly been pretty smooth since I migrated it over.

@YOOOODAAAA @flydotio when did v2 come out? Perhaps that's the issue

I've been deploying apps to render.com for the past few months. It's fast, smooth, and pretty seamless. Today I'm updating dockyard.com which is still on @flydotio and holy shit does this take forever to deploy.

@howard Honestly really curious about coding on it. I'm a single monitor coder, so I think I could rock it. Not paying $3000 for that though. Last time I saw them in public was ~2 weeks after launch 🤔

When was the last time you saw someone wearing these?

@AlanMcGlinchey @austin_rief Thanks Alan, I'd love to take you up on your offer. I emailed you because the apply button isn't working for me currently (existing account issue likely)

@YOOOODAAAA @austin_rief My email is alan.mcglinchey@intercom.io

This is a masterclass in how to respond to feedback publicly.

@austin_rief My biggest complaint is lack of read-only seats on cheaper plans. If I wanted to pay for all of the access that my team needs (seat pricing), for the very limited number of tickets that I have, it would work out to between $5-$10 per ticket. That's crazy imo.

@austin_rief Hm I complain about their pricing all of the time 🤣 I think I've sent 3 support tickets about it within the past 8 months. Because I was trying to make it work. I also evaluated every other tool for support chats and they all just don't work very well—at least for my needs.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but: AirPods work fine in the shower. You won't break them. It's simpler than dealing with some kind of shower speaker and sounds better than blaring your phone from across the room.

@ThatArrowsmith @ExMexConf I am in this group. It's cool with me if people think I'm an idiot for not using it. I enjoy writing code and I'm efficient.

At an Elixir conference (@exmexconf) last month one of the speakers asked "who uses zero AI at all to write any of their code?" and 10-15% of the room put their hands up. Others told me in private convos that they do use AI but only a little bit. It's still so insanely early.

@TheNathanRuff I somehow got 123456 for my meeting ID. Not sure if blessed or filled it out as a joke at some point

We drive a lot of traffic to splash pages from Google ads. I've though about launching where people could just join a sales call, no need to book. No way to do it via Calendly, so was just going to setup a zoom room... but what do I do when I am not there which is 80% of the time... And @roam comes in again... they have this crazy feature where if I am available people can just drop in. They can still book in advance, but if they land on our page, and want a 5 minute chat, and I am not in a meeting I can just have that 5 minute chat. Truly game changing. (ro.am/influencer/ruff)