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> Employees who sat near their teammates received 18.3 per cent more feedback on their code and produced higher-quality code.
You can have a similar experience in remote work with tools like shared virtual frosted glass of the MeetingGlass app.
I keep ProductTrailers.xyz open when I'm eating my breakfast. It's a TV channel for Product Hunt launches.
I use Code Mind Map - a Visual Studio / VS Code extension that allows you to add nodes linked to code and jump directly to the linked code on a click. I built it for myself. You can find it at
https://codemindmap.com
It can be isolating, though, but the virtual frosted glass technology might change even that.
ProductTrailers.xyz - TV channel for Product Hunt launches.
My 9 y/o account on Reddit was shadow banned because I shared a URL of my app in subs specifically aimed at sharing apps/side-projects. No warning, no explanation. It was just an execution-style ban. It seems that the social media giants want the audience to feel as if a sword of damocleis is constantly hanging over them. One step out of the line that no one says you nothing about, and you are executed.
My account just was stolen. I received a couple of push notifications on my smartphone which I didn't react, and then received an email notification that a new email address was added to my account. And then I lost access to the account. What a piece of crap LinkedIn is.
Take a look at ProductTrailers.xyz - a TV channel for Product Hunt launches.
Meetings with shared frosted glass (with the MeetingGlass app) can be a great solution for this. It is relaxed meetings with mutual visibility and frosting, like when using a physical frosted glass. It feels a lot more comfortable and a lot friendlier than meetings using the mainstream video apps. Maybe invisible teammates will be willing to become visible with frosted-glass video meetings.
Well, have you tried having stress-free virtual frosted glass meetings (the MeetingGlass app) with your colleagues? Maybe you wouldn't have such numbers if you did.
Isolation. But there is a solution: virtual frosted glass video meetings (via the MeetingGlass app). You can be behind a shared layer of virtual frosted glass with your colleagues. It works like the real frosted glass: mutual visibility and frosting.
The author mentions loneliness of remote work, but he didn't do a research of tools against that. For example, there is a tool called virtual frosted glass video meetings (via the MeetingGlass app) that allows you to be behind a shared layer of virtual frosted glass with colleagues. It functions like the physical frosted glass and makes you feel relaxed while being on video.
I am afraid the software engineering industry is increasingly becoming like the music industry, which was killed by being able to get any song for free. Open source, free, fremium apps, lower threshold of entry due to AI, all of that is killing the market. Soon, you will not be able to make any money out of it unless you're a big player.
I work in intervals using my own app called Black Screen for Windows.
What field? They brought back up that old sci-fi term AI specifically for neural networks to create a false impression among people that this is a technology that can "think."
They called it AI instead of calling it neural networks and therefore provoked unrealistic expectations for this technology. Criticism will never end because of the fraudulent naming of this technology.
You can use virtual frosted glass video meetings if you want to have more presence with employees. This problem is solvable, so stop scapegoating remote work.
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kentich on Thursday May 28, 2026 @12:48AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://producttrailers.xyz
A web app that turns Product Hunt products into a YouTube playlist. Embeds the official launch videos and lets you filter/sort the queue. Built because I wanted to discover products while eating lunch.
Nope, you'll get a lawsuit for discrimination if you explicitly test for IQ. That's why they do it implicitly. The scheme is very simple: hire people with the highest IQ, and since they have high IQ, they will figure at least something out.
Leetcode is implicit IQ testing. That is why they will likely keep it despite AI.
You can talk to them at any moment and ask them what they are working on without getting to them through calling, texting, etc. Real-time communication is much easier than async communication.
Because they can't see them. Seeing is believing. They don't know that they can have them behind a virtual frosted glass via the MeetingGlass app. With mutual visibility and mutual (un)frosting - just like through physical frosted glass. Such frosted privacy feels great and is equal for everyone.
A VS Code/Visual Studio extension for creating mind maps with nodes linked to code called Code Mind Map.
The reason for things you've described is that LLMs are forgetful. They just can't remember the context and have to research the code almost every time you prompt. Even the code it itself wrote. This leads to re-implementation of the same features with different code, code duplicates, missing the implementation of corner cases, etc.
A bit of self-promotion does not hurt anybody. Stop whining and skip such comments. The assault on self-promotion on Reddit has already buried countless good projects and startups.
No, it's not slipping away. With tools like frosted video meetings, you can have it on a bigger scale.
> Having the window go black would drive me insane.
It is too easy to ignore the timer, that's why I think forcing breaks is a good idea. In the app I built for this, you can remove black screen if you really want but in an inconvenient way so that it is not too easy.
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kentich on Thursday January 29, 2026 @06:05AM
from the self-post dept.
I’ve never been able to maintain enough focus on a timer. The temptation to get distracted is always strong—and since it’s easy to ignore the timer, I often did.After failing to follow the Pomodoro method, I’d feel irritated, frustrated, and blame myself. Soon enough, the routine would fall apart, and I’d go back to working in my usual way—without boundaries or timers.Then I had an epiphany:...