Ilija Studen

Helping others build stuff @ActiveCollab. Cleaning up corners while nobody's watching. Into #lean thinking, #agile software dev and regen. AG. Maker 🧱 Grower 🌱

[Ilija Studen @istdn]

@GergelyOrosz Everyone's building agents, but it will not be easy to find the combination that works. Vendors make big promises, to mixed reviews. Plus, it's a huge transfer of ARR to AI companies. IIRC, Notion recently reported that AI costs are eating into their margins.

[Ilija Studen @istdn]

Pro tip: Click on user's workload summary for the day (color-coded number of available hours) to see how @ActiveCollab came up with the number - meetings, tasks, estimates, all is there.

[Ilija Studen @istdn]

AI is multi-tasking amplifier: "I'm frequently finding myself with work on two or three projects running parallel. I can get so much done, but after just an hour or two my mental energy for the day feels almost entirely depleted." https://t.co/Y2OOfygLRC

[Ilija Studen @istdn]

MCP server development feedback loop:

1. Imagine app XYZ publishes an MCP server; write me N prompts how a typical user would use it
2. Now study my MCP server, can you run the scenarios that you proposed?
3. Fix shortcomings
4. Repeat 🔁

[Ilija Studen @istdn]

ActiveCollab 8 is available to customers with self-hosting licenses 🚀 It brings 100+ new features and improvements (we stopped counting at 100). There is no area of the application that was not touched and improved by our team. Thank you for your continued support. 🙏

[Ilija Studen @istdn]

Oldschooling a big project plan.

[Ilija Studen @istdn]

Upgrading firmware on both cameras at once. YOLO.

[Ilija Studen @istdn]

ActiveCollab September update:

👥 Team Profiles.Stay on top of team projects, tasks, and availability
⏲️ Reminders for Notifications. Never lose track of a notification again

https://t.co/7Px2HJOrl8

[Ilija Studen @istdn]

@jackfriks I like my robots nice and simple 🤷‍♂️ Scheduled watering, automatic lawn mowing, solar powered fertilization, tractor with auto-steering…

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@dude100500 @CachedSelf @levelsio Most probably. Would they outgrow free tier of a PaaS? 🤔

[Ilija Studen @istdn]

@ivanhoe011 Neki provideri rade monitoring saobraćaja (mail i web) i isecaju VPS u slučaju da primete nešto sumnjivo. Ne rešava problem kompromitovanog servera, samo sprečava da isti eskalira i napravi veliku štetu.

[Ilija Studen @istdn]

@CachedSelf @levelsio Good. VPS-es can be upgraded, migrated to beefier bare metal machines, or scaled horizontally behind a load balancer if app is reasonably laid out. Sure, you have to do the work, but only if your app becomes popular, in which case the effort is well justified.

[Ilija Studen @istdn]

@NymanJon @htmx_org Yes, the whole progressive enhancement approach makes a lot of sense. That's why I would this HTMX behavior strange when I experience it: https://t.co/cL8THgJbYy

[Ilija Studen @istdn]

@Shpigford Got the one I really liked for $2500. Now we just have to build something worthwhile to run on it. 😀

[Ilija Studen @istdn]

@asmartbear @FoundersPodcast Not 100% correct, but still useful.

[Ilija Studen @istdn]

@GergelyOrosz Ah, OK. Need to watch that episode 👍 My quick opinion after that clip is not that there was a test too much, but a test missing, on level of integration where problem manifests. Broken code that got in production is indicator that there's uncovered problem class in the pipeline.

[Ilija Studen @istdn]

@GergelyOrosz Interesting perspective. I rarely saw testing done by developers as wasteful. Testing in TDD/BDD style shape the design, and suites remain as a regression prevention mechanism. Purpose of tests in bug fixing is also not future error prevention, but proof that solution works.

[Ilija Studen @istdn]

Heroes completed. I still miss Tul Duru 🗡️