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Firefighter Zen by Hersch Wilson

Nine lies about work by Marcus Buckingham

How to know a person by David Brooks


Plenty (https://plenty.ag) is trying to scale hydroponics using plant science and automation. (I worked here till a few months ago.) Indoor agriculture is going to supplement our nutrition needs in the future. Plenty is focusing on flavor as its selling point, and after eating Plenty produce, everything else seems like eating cardboard.


Why'd you leave--just curious?


I wanted to do more creative work, whereas the work at Plenty was more about problem solving.


Oh interesting, I guess I've always thought about problem solving and creativity as being one and the same. Mind expanding on this a bit?


Ah I should have been more specific. For some context, I learned software development on the job and later studied Human-Computer Interaction. I want to be at the intersection of software and design.

Software Engineering at Plenty involved a lot of creative problem solving. But I wanted to work on visually creative projects. Some of my initial projects at Plenty did involve interactive UIs, but as I gained better understanding of our stack, I was required to do a lot more back-end work which wasn’t very exciting to me.


Ah! Got it! That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for sharing!


Not OP but I feel like I can an example here.

The workplace I am at solves a very prevalent set of problems For retail industry. But there is nothing creative about it. (Of course, there are some creative workarounds but it wouldn’t be characterized as creative work)


I have used localtunnel over https for this: https://localtunnel.github.io/www/


Nice, is this similar to ngrok?


Same principle, though less well maintained and somewhat iffier especially the server bits, you may want to / have to set up your own localtunnel server[0] though an advantage is that you can do that.

FWIW for my use case (testing github API calls & webhooks feedback), ngrok with a free account was more reliable, and interacted better with little snitch.

[0] https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel/issues/261#issuec...


Disclaimer: I am one of the developers that built this.

Try Frappe Framework (https://frappe.io). We have received feedback that it is really good to quickly build internal projects or prototypes.

Also ERPNext (https://ERPNext.com) is an open source erp that is feature rich and has a good UI. It can help any startup to manage their business without resorting to complicated excel sheets based management.


Doesn't using HTTPS prevent such an injection?


I would hope so, unless there is some monkey business with the SSL Certs like the "superfish".

A lot of pages aren't https yet though.


AFAIK Mozilla is trying to make https certificates free for everyone.

Edit: Here's the link: https://letsencrypt.org


Superfish was because the laptop manufacturer bundled adware which added its own root certificate that was broken, they aren't able to add root certificates in this case.


Unless its something they require on their phones as a carrier ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


Consider that a $100 phone can have a reasonably well designed OS


Oh yeah, we're there. My Lumia 520 only cost $100, and I find Windows Phone 8.1 to be delightful on it. The new android offerings look even better.


They look pretty but it appears to be reverting back to pale grey text on a white background, thereby making it impossible to read. Is this some nostalgic reversion back to poor contrast screens like old Psions or the cheap Palm Pilots when the battery ran down or something?

It's unreadable.


Thanks. I didn't know this. I get that they need to monitor clicks for revenue, but mouse movements!


ERPNext - https://erpnext.com

GPL v3 - Python, Javascript, MariaDB

Github - https://github.com/frappe/erpnext

(I am one of the developers)


I am finding the new version to be snappier than usual. I like it. Now please make the developer tools as good as chrome's.


Have you looked at ERPNext? It is Open Source - http://github.com/webnotes/erpnext

Though it is an ERP, you can just use the accounting and sales modules and hide the rest.

(I am a developer at erpnext)


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