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@RajpootPrasoon You can bypass CI typically if the PR has been approved. Force merging does require admin privileges (I realise I said force merge)

@olineagu How could you force merge?? In my org only selected few people have access to force merge..that too is reserved for outage type situations.. Normally we have to resolve issues

You push a PR and CI fails, it’s not your fault. Do you rerun? Or do you force merge? 😈

@NapierHolland Is this because it’s an immigrant and they are moving over? They do take major advantage for a couple of years

£36k for a doctor expected to move to Northern Ireland. The UK's single biggest problem is the spiteful, toxic breed of Brit who tries to shame anyone that dares to earn a 'slightly' above-average salary. £30k and above? You're not allowed to have problems.

@marclou Looking at you I would think you are the type of person that never touched alcohol 😂

sunday, 10:12am. hungover. 5 hours of sleep. head pounding. nothing makes sense. …in another life. in this one, I got a 100% sleep score, did the morning workout, and I’m building my startup.

@tibo_maker That will be great for your mental health. I would hire someone that has the specific job of making sure things go well and you don’t get robbed blind. It will cost extra, but much less than the project extending for 6 more months

Easiest way to start a house renovation: Live an 11-hour drive away 🤣

@marclou The winner of the AI race will be the one that can do what you need with minimum input

I stopped using sonnet. It felt like coding with a drunk friend—fun until he installs new packages or edits other components “for fun.” My prompt used to be 50% instructions and 50% dont-dos. Switched to gemini-2.5. Finally, some peace.

@thekitze You can see it as the cheapest money you will ever borrow (assuming that’s the case and you didn’t get an awful interest rate)

i had a "holy shit" moment in my sleep where I thought "waaaait a minute, we're paying this mortgage for 2 years already, so a big chunk of the house should be paid out by now, right.. RIGHT?" then for the first time I checked the bank statements and saw the % that goes to the bank ..... stabbed me like a knife

@SaidAitmbarek Awesome stuff. Honest question, is it going the direction you hoped and is it showing the potential you want it too?

About to cross 200k unique users in a few days🙌 No virality, no paid growth, no secret playbook Just: - Showing up every day in 2024/25 - Improving platform bit by bit - Having experiments, tests, events📈 - More than talking to users, interacting in-app + socials Growth’s been linear.. and honestly, that’s perfect cause it's 100% bootstrapped.. so never quit too early Consistency + Decision making >>> Keep launching unique/creative products on microlaunch.net My LT vision is to make this it best distribution startup founders!

@quarleswithtech That’s an interesting thing you’ve noticed, and looking at it through that lens, I notice the same. I guess if I do feature coding with AI, I find it easier to get distracted and harder to get into a flow state.

@olineagu When I started vibe coding I thought it was harder to get into the flow but after doing it for months I flow way harder than before I feel like the difference is in feature based flow vs app based flow - with AI coding I flow with the app more than just a single feature

When coding in English (aka using AI), do you find it's much harder to get into a flow state and not get distracted? I find regular normal coding much more satisfying

Thanks JavaScript!

@marclou I did the same but I suspect at a completely different scale

just bought the dip so i have nothing left when the real dip happens 🥲

@jasonfried Damn, I got things mixed up. I should have applied.

@olineagu We are 100% remote.

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As a software engineer, are you into other engineering disciplines? I like anything related to mechanical engineering, from cars to mechanical watches

@DmytroKrasun 💯 agreed, but I feel like X can be one of your worst enemies

@AdamBartas Congrats man! I think I’ll go this route soon

This completely blows my mind two months ago, I quit my dev job to start a design agency set myself a 12 week plan to have solid goals its week 10 now I'm already earning more than at my job

@rcwhiteley @blackevilgoblin Thanks bro! 👊

@blackevilgoblin @olineagu Bro, he means context

I have 10,000 free users How do I convince them to pay?

@kurekimurat @jasonfried I think the argument is that having that backlog take time which you can use to get shit done. However in my experience planning can be healthy, but maybe it’s not for everyone.

@jasonfried @olineagu That's not always the case. You can have a healthy backlog of relevant stuff, that is periodically reviewed and cleaned up. Also, some apps have very predictable features that need to be delivered.

"If you don't have a backlog, or deep sets of prioritized, ranked items, how do you decide what to do next?" The same way you do. You make decisions. We just make decisions about what to work on next as we go, looking forward, rather than making decisions as we went, looking backwards. Why work from what /seemed/ like a good idea before? Instead, work from appears to be a good idea now. You have more information now — why not use it? It's always baffled me how people who pluck work from long lists of past decisions think you can't make those same kinds of decisions now instead. It's all yay/nay decisions. Same process. Before wasn't magical. Before was just now, then. Why not look at now, now? Now is a far more accurate version of next. The backlog way is based on what you thought then. The non-backlog way is based on what you think now. I'll take now. One's stale, one's fresh. We'll take fresh. Then is further, now is closer. There's nothing special about having made decisions already. They aren't better, they aren't more accurate, they aren't more substantial just because they've been made. What they are, however, is older and often outdated. If you've got to believe in something, I'd suggest putting more faith in now.

@jasonfried Hey it’s super valuable, makes me think and many times I adjust or take a break from my old ways.

@olineagu Do what works for you. Not here to change your mind, just here to share mine.

There's no such thing as low priority. It's either high priority, or no priority ("it just is"). Multi-level priority systems instituted in software is software doing what it does worst.