Steinn E. Sigurðarson

Recovering know-it-all and co-founder @GRID_hq

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[Steinn E. Sigurðarson @steinnes]

Inside One of the World’s Fastest Spreadsheet Engines https://t.co/m2WpCxNsEE #spreadsheets

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@Icelandair_HR I’ve got to stop, to entertain my two year old who is possibly now finally succumbing to sleep.. bad timing tbh..

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@Icelandair_HR I think the airline should consider finding a more family friendly, and by extension more delay-forgiving slot, if this is as common an occurrence as I and several (in fact every) other passengers I talked to seem to have experienced.

[Steinn E. Sigurðarson @steinnes]

@Icelandair_HR Thanks. What are the delay statistics on these flights? Word among the passengers is that this flight is often delayed. The non-delayed landing time is bad enough (23:30). Now 10 minutes out from “departure “ and this is where we are:

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Hey @Icelandair mikið óskaplega er Billund flugið lélegt hjá ykkur, lentum í ca 2ja tíma seinkun á leiðinni út, og núna aftur á heimleið. Þetta eru til að byrja með langsíðustu flugin hérna á Billund svo ekki er á það bætandi. Ótal bugaðar barnafjölskyldur á ferð. Fussumsvei!

[Steinn E. Sigurðarson @steinnes]

I am enjoying this discussion with Claude. Meeting the demands of users, is the goal with most software. We've all heard the "build me a better horse" analogy, which is good, but listening to users is still important :-)

[Steinn E. Sigurðarson @steinnes]

Having thoughtful conversations with AI... I'm not sure where this sits conceptually. It's like an exercise (although the overwhelming obsequiousness makes it a fairly easy one) in conversing. Like talking to myself, but because it's in text form, it's more structured.

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..and I actually 100% understand why companies rarely want product feedback/ideas from users. It's so rarely actionable, and often suffers from skewed context. But when it is actionable, and the small stuff often is, I think it adds up.

Filtering out the non-actionable though..

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@doridna Djöfull fékk þetta dræmar undirtektir.

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@KristallMani Gott að á íslensku má spyrja: hvernig gengur í Feneyjum? Held það væri erfitt að misskilja þá spurningu.

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Tariff, the most beautiful word in the english language..

[Chainlinkthomas @ChainlinkThomas]

@JDVance

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HN thread about failed moon landing. 296 comments, about 30 of those focusing on typos and a whopping 68 on how the adjective "private" is used in "robotic private spacecraft".

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This is from ClickUp, but I have a feeling this UX problem is affecting a lot of products these days..

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I lost what little interest I had in software security probably 25 years ago. Building things is a lot more fun than trying to break things, IMHO.

But sometimes, when looking through my logs to debug things, I see stuff like this. Does shit like this ever work?

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May whoever decided alt+space should produce nbsp on all keyboards burn in hell.

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I guess it’s pretty unlikely this reaches Bill or Brad (@altcap).. but if it does, I’d love to hear your thoughts. 🙏

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A few weeks ago I was listening to the @BG2Pod where @bgurley really nailed what I consider the major challenge for enterprise-wide LLM adoption: numbers.

We at GRID wholeheartedly agree, and we’re trying to do something about it. https://t.co/5n1WrhH0O5

[Steinn E. Sigurðarson @steinnes]

I think the "ProductChecker" and crippling of the client libraries was the final straw for me however. I don't think developers like being coerced into technical decisions, so hopefully this is something we'll see less of, not more, in the future.

[Steinn E. Sigurðarson @steinnes]

About a month ago we switched from ElasticSearch hosted by https://t.co/cOryax1Vnl to AWS OpenSearch, largely for the reasons detailed in the thread below. It took us close to a year because we had just prepaid a year's worth of usage when the events below unfolded.

[Steinn E. Sigurðarson @steinnes]

Do I know anyone who switched from ElasticSearch to OpenSearch after the SSPL switch?

A few days ago we suffered an outage due to our clusters on https://t.co/cOryax1Vnl returning 5xx without any updates to the status page. 1/2

[Steinn E. Sigurðarson @steinnes]

... at this point in time I was clearly aligned with Elastic against AWS, thinking that this must be a nightmare for any F/OSS company, and I expected them to change their license to prevent this from happening without them being compensated or having more control.