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Head of Design. Irish, in Abu Dhabi, pointed at Europe. Runs the design org by day, ships AI tooling solo by night

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@DataChaz That is an incredibly weird Macbook, no monitor and it has a Linux sticker.

I always install Chrome, IA Writer (markdown), Alfred, divvy, copyClip and very important 'amphetamine' to stop it going to sleep

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Why MariaDB may be better than MySQL
• It was forked by the original creator of MySQL after Oracle bought it, and it stays fully open source and community-led.
• It often gets useful features earlier and has no "enterprise only" parts held back by Oracle.
• It is mostly a drop-in replacement, but the two have drifted apart in newer versions, so test before switching.

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PostgreSQL

• Good at: a strong all-rounder that handles complex queries, strict data rules and JSON, and scales well as a project grows.
• Never use when: you only need a tiny local store for one app on one device, where SQLite is much simpler.

MongoDB

• Good at: storing flexible, document-shaped data where the structure changes often and you need to move fast.
• Never use when: your data is highly connected and needs strict consistency across many records, such as accounting or billing.

MySQL

• Good at: fast, simple reads for classic web apps, with a huge community and cheap hosting everywhere.
• Never use when: you need advanced queries or strong data checks, because PostgreSQL does these better for the same effort.

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@axhiii88547 Because they are not designers 😉

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@Kappaemmedev VeeeeeeePeeeeeeeN

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@ajambrosino @soumitrashukla9 Must try harder 😉

[DC Crowley @theDonCrowley]

@ConnorTalksAI I am now following you

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No price is fine. I just think for deep thinking work Fable is better. But I use openrouter and pi. I have a harness and I let it decide except for pure grunt work. Then I use deepseek flash latest... And JEV. Due decisions. Harness decides. For me Fable is big picture thinking, opus per task planning. I don't get too hung up on this.

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@mohammad_j43370 Explain like I am 5. If you type in eli5 it will do it. I think my ik can lift up with an AI with a higher IQ than mine

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@jamo9mks Duh! YNWA

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Choose your poison and stick with it. Even when opus 5 was driving me nuts and everyone was singing praises of astra 6. I stick it out, Fable 5 low. Now I see people complain about astra 6. Really they are close right now. I have taken a step toward agnostic workflows, using openrouter and @pidotdev because switching is easy and adding JEV was a piece of cake

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@TechOperator No fomo 😉

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@gendev01 @aishwarya_08 This is really interesting. I will take a look

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I have gotten agents working with Jira, bit quite what you are looking for. Then there is buzz from Jack Dorsey. Nobody talks about it anymore. I am starting my own business in 2-3 weeks time. I am thinking of having a PO Agent run the Jira board orchestrating agents through slack. But this could go wrong fast. Work in progress

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@rileybrown @Anthropic Yes pls. I need this bad. I've been waiting and waiting 😬

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@bot I have a $30 Grok account but it logs in from Apple. I'm going to try and get it to work. It logs into Cursor, which I don't have. For Cursor I used to have an account but that's on my Gmail. It's a total mess. How am I going to get you guys up and running for me so that I can use you?

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@NatalieFratto @CoFoundersNik icloud is cloud storage. Gmail/ Google docs as well. I don't find it weird at all