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I have recently resurrected one from an old bus — https://www.bobek.cz/buse/

TBH this is one of a few things that feels exciting about LLMs. I've recently revived a flip-dot panel from an old bus by reverse engineering and replacing its firmware -- https://www.bobek.cz/buse/

It it less crazy that it sounds. I have recently replaced firmware on an obscure MCU to revive a flip-dot display.

https://www.bobek.cz/buse/

DataMole is already in use by a company [0].

[0]: https://www.datamole.ai/

This resonates. I have just got back to hacking an old flip-dot display after sitting on the shelf for years.

https://www.bobek.cz/buse/

Git back hacking an old flip-dot display. It was sitting on the shelf for years.

https://www.bobek.cz/buse/

This template is a great starting point. I have tweaked [0] it for A4 and two-column output, if anybody is interested.

[0]: https://www.bobek.cz/til/pandoc-markdown-typst/

Graph paper FWT :)

Bitwarden scrubs ‘Always free’ and ‘Inclusion’ values from its website as longtime execs step down

Plus we had a visual diff on the top of that as a part of the CI pipeline. It prevented a bunch of mishaps ;)

I went the complete opposite and print one A4 every morning [0], so I don't have to touch any device.

[0]: https://github.com/bobek/rannich-5minut-denikn

Made me smile. Thank you!

And you are absolutely correct. I've seen the DT page thanks to the linked HN submission (actually comment [1]. And incorrectly associated the DT article incorrectly today. Thank you.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200131

Wow. This page is actually a product of LLM [0]. So they can produce useful stuff after all :)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47195123

It is not only recommender though. These guys [1] seem to be able to react pretty quickly and not to create addicts on the way ;(

[1] https://recombee.com

Welcome ;) Linux is my desktop last 20+ years.

Interesting, my favorite one on Android - HiPER Calc - does it correctly and returns 1.

The biggest (engineering) team I've built and led was 150 people, so I cannot speak for 200. I don't feel that the solution of keeping the understanding of what is happening was about a formal structure like an "employee steering committee".

Rather than trusting the same principles used for scaling the doing side of the business. Things like empowering people to make decisions [1] or being clear about what/how/why you make certain types of decisions [2]. Working on staying aligned with your closest team, which then spent energy on staying aligned with their teams, etc. Sample randomly from the whole org, but mostly at your pace.

The biggest mistake I've made was that I've pulled myself (for legitimate reasons, it seemed) from having a true conversation with every single hire before they've gotten an offer, when we were around 70. 30 minutes is typically enough, but I feel you need a singular person as a gatekeeper for the final values-fit check. Partially thinking that 70 is already good enough, but later I've come across people talking about, like, 500 people before pulling out [3] :)

[1]: https://www.bobek.cz/decisions/ [2]: https://www.bobek.cz/work-principles/ [3]: https://mastersofscale.com/reed-hastings-culture-shock/

Adam Grant had recently Daniel Immerwahr on attention span and how it really has not shortened despite popular beliefs.

In the age of social media and short-form content, many people insist that our attention spans are getting shorter. But historian Daniel Immerwahr reminds us that people have cried wolf for centuries about technology hijacking our attention. In this episode, Adam and Daniel dive into evidence that what’s changing is not our attention spans, but the objects of our focus. They also discuss moral panics of the past, compare the cognitive benefits of video games and the opera, and debate whether or not Marvel movies are a waste of time.

https://podcastaddict.com/worklife-with-adam-grant/episode/2...

Mildly related are written standups [1] when treated as journal/logbook.

[1] https://www.bobek.cz/the-power-of-written-standup/

Love Pentel Graphear 1000, have multiple distributed throughout the house/workshop and backpacks :)

The other I really like is UNI Kuru Toga, the plastic one (shrug). The twist mechanism actually works; it is slightly wider thus more comfortable (for me) for longer writing sessions.

The site appears to be down. HM hug of death, maybe?

Writing isn't just communication—it's a thinking tool that forces clarity and precision. Yet I still get pushback when advocating for written narratives over slide decks in technical decision-making. Writing is frequently considered "extra work" :(

I was even so frustrated that I've put together https://www.bobek.cz/written-narratives/

It is not particularly hard either. Checkout restic server.

https://github.com/restic/rest-server/

I always liked the esthetics of Wharton studio clocks. There is an OSS implementation at https://github.com/bobek/sdg_wharton_miniclock

Well, it is the same as all those examples of people "just doing their jobs" in concentration camps. Being compliant, focused on execution of their ~orders~ process. Interestingly, many people are being pre-emptively harsher, than required/requested. Checkout "Those Who Said No" (DOI 10.2307/1429971).

Go for it. Running it for quite some time at home. Very easy to deploy, regular updates.

Once, I got pulled into a fintech company who done synchronization of remote psql databases by dump to csv -> send over ftp or email -> verify in Excel -> import back to centralized psql. No wonders, they have been missing some transactions...

I would recommend a slightly different approach to written/async standup. Issue I have with stand-ups is the ad hoc nature of proving a report, instead of making it a collaboration space

https://www.bobek.cz/the-power-of-written-standup/