Mastodawn

@tante as a non-native German speaker I get it. I feel that I have two totally different personas because of it.

Every enterprise app feels like typing on a mushy membrane keyboard. You click a button and get a gentle animation, a swooshy transition, a soft bounce, and zero clear feedback that anything actually happened. The entire B2B software industry optimized for how tools feel during a fifteen-minute sales demo instead of how they perform across an eight-hour workday, and the result is professional software with the tactile precision of poking a marshmallow.

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Joey Jan 29

@Cliff538 @florianziegler you inspired me last year… but after 14 days I missed a few days, and before I knew it were back in January. 😩

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Joey Jan 29

@mark good enough, then ship it.

Joey Oct 16

JA Westenberg Oct 16

Reading a tech startup's "Our Story" page:

"We were frustrated with existing solutions" = We've never worked in this industry
"We asked ourselves: what if..." = We had a shower thought
"After months of research" = We Googled it
"We're disrupting" = We're copying but with React

Joey Aug 5, 2025

JA Westenberg Aug 5, 2025

Plato warned us. Over two thousand years ago, he told the story of prisoners chained in a cave, mistaking shadows on the wall for reality. They saw outlines and echoes, never the fire or the forms behind it. And when one prisoner escaped and saw the sun, he came back to free the others.

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Joey Aug 5, 2025

Aaron Gustafson Aug 4, 2025

On the 20-step problem and the economics of agentic AI.

https://utkarshkanwat.com/writing/betting-against-agents/

Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them)

I've built 12+ AI agent systems across development, DevOps, and data operations. Here's why the current hype around autonomous agents is mathematically impossible and what actually works in production.

Utkarsh Kanwat

Joey Jun 25, 2025