This morning I filed my annual income tax return in Estonia, and thought it would be interesting to time the whole process from start to finish
It took 37 seconds
Rail Baltica is one of the European Union's flagship infrastructure projects, but it's also way over budget. Designed to bring the Baltics closer to Europe, parts of the rail line are already under construction in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. However, without a major boost in funding in the EU’s next Multiannual Financial Framework, construction may stall.
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Liebe Freunde, wenn Euch während der Festtage irgendein Verwandter erzählt, dass Kapitaleinkünfte zu gering besteuert würden, zeigt ihm diese Grafik. Ich habe korrektermaßen den Solidaritätszuschlag (Soli) ergänzt, der gleich zweimal anfällt. Die Kapitalgesellschaft muss Soli zahlen, und Euch als Anteilseigner wird bei der Ausschüttung gleich noch mal Soli abgezogen. Insgesamt gehen vom Gewinn der Gesellschaft je nach Höhe der Gewerbesteuer mehr als 48% ab
@levelsio Yes, for me too. Also recently it started referencing my custom instructions, very uncanny. Like I told it to write in lower caps, and it replies with things like “here’s the breakdown, all lower caps:”
@destraynor That talk is so good still. A workshop I attended two years ago referenced it and I’ve been since sharing it with all product people I know
In the end, specs, sketches, visuals, and implementation aren’t stages: they’re parallel ways to think, communicate, and build. Pick the medium that fits your style, but make sure to cover the essentials:
reasoning,
alignment,
memory.
For daily product work I now just iterate on the wireframe stage (Excalidraw) and then go straight to code.
I use Figma only for visual details like choosing icons and colors or when working on fundamental look and feel (design system).
Figma is incredibly important. It allows you to think and prototype UI/UX quickly. Coding doesnt enable even 1/5 the speed of figma of iteration on this.
You need to be able to try stuff. Throw things away. See how it looks. You can always tell when someone skipped this step and went straight to code.
Apart from the visual work, it’s worth investing in curating specs. Collect context, explore directions, and document the reasoning. Figma captures the ‘what’; good specs preserve the ‘why’.
@martinrariga@heyequals Have you considered localization? In some cultures (eg. East Asia) they don’t have this red->green schema for bad->good but rather blue->red.
@makwarth Surprisingly it seems there isn’t any tool that’s good at both the CRM and the in-app support stuff. Probably because it’s traditionally separate roles that deal with those?
A bit like how there used to not be a single tool good at feature flags AND adoption tracking ;)
@thilokonzok@uncommon@bradflora I understand a free demo must be very limited but it seemed like a bug that I cannot do anything (1. Enter description 2. Signin with Google 3. Buy now?); at this point I don’t understand what I’d be buying.
^ my observation as a German who barely lived in Germany during the last 10 years.
Somehow every time I see Germans in public, in Germany or abroad, someone shows this stressed behavior.
When you take bus number 2 in 🇪🇪Tallinn (the one that goes to the airport), it’s often full with Germans.
For some reason, there’s always someone who emits some stress.
Perceived slights (you bumped into me!), anxieties (we’re gonna be late!) etc.
Why can’t Germans chill out?