I've always wanted to do some small business, maybe an app but to get started feels so daunting. This information you provided is great and makes me feel like there's room to know more.

Are there any good places to grow this kind of knowledge? How to use payment processors? How to actually setup a business and get paid yourself?

I don't want to get into the whole founder ethos, I just want to make something and get paid for it.

I'm getting AI generated product requirements that they haven't read themselves. It is so frustrating. Random requirements like "this service must have a response time of 5s or less" - "A retry mechanism must be present". We have a specific SLA already for response time and the designs don't have a retry mechanism built.

The bad product managers have become 10x worse because they just generate AI garbage to spray at the engineering team. We are now writing AI review process for our user stories to counter the AI generation of the product team. I'd much rather spend my time building things than having AI wars between teams.

Oof. My general principle is "sending AI-authored prose to another human without at least editing it is rude". Getting an AI-generated message from someone at all feels rude to me, kind of like an extreme version of "dictated but not read" being in a letter in the old days.

Wow, this describes _exactly_ what I've started to see from some PMs.

Are there any popular packages that require postinstall scripts that this hurts?

I wonder what position Apple will take on this. You can't trace ICE agents (IceBlock app)

But will ICE be able to track immigrants using whatever Apps are created here?

Scary times we live in. Stay safe everyone.

Apple allows other apps that allow people to notify and track crime, like the Neighborhood and Citizen apps.

ICE also has some bespoke face recognition app already

The specific details from nhtsa: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2025/RCLRPT-25V710-7238.pdf

> Interim corrective action to avoid loss of motive power was implemented using an update to the backend policy

Wonder if this is about a misconfigured secure CAN gateway?

This nails so much of my frustration with software development at the moment.

The requests to my team are:

build what product says

close out 90% of the defects you find by priority order

deliver in the priority of feature > security > accessibility

once delivered move on to something else we only have time to work for 3 months on an initiative before we move on

These requirements don't end up with a well working product. They end up with gaps in product, defects that are obvious, non-accessible site. Things take time to polish and be made right, but that's not what is requested. Wanting to iterate and measure isn't important because its not more features.

Because your competitor probably depends on a service which uses aws. They may host all their stuff in azure, but use cloudfront as cache which uses aws and goes down.

Exactly my thoughts when I went through it.

I want to see the results of the test compared to the EU/US/Whoever recommendations. I want explanations of what the different chemicals are and preferably linked to peer reviewed studies explaining side effects.

Once even more tests are ran I want comparisons between product brands.

Overall still great but very much an engineer presentation to complex data. Not that its a bad thing, being transparent with data is important, but we aren't all experts.

Thanks, and yes these improvements are on my roadmap!

I'm working to make results more digestible and actionable. This will include the %TDI toggle (total daily intake, for child vs adult and USA vs EU) as seen on PlasticList, but I'm also tinkering with an even more consumer-friendly 'chemical report card'. The final results page would have both the card and the detailed table of results.

How are you setting up LLCs nowadays? I set one up through legalzoom and get charged an increasing amount each year (it increased $100) this year and I can't cancel / dissolve the charges via the UI. Even though I signed up online, I have to contact the state to dissolve the LLC then show legalzoom proof in order to cancel their yearly fee. Its pretty crazy.

Are there other better vendors for this kind of work out there?

I form them myself, which takes about 5 minutes on the Secretary of State's website. The only fee to the state is a one time formation fee. This is true in a variety of states.

I got this advice to do so from (a) the aforementioned nonprofit consultant and (b) an actual attorney, who does serve as a registered agent, for no fee. He is glad to do so since in the very rare event of a lawsuit, he'll be the one representing us. However, you could also just be your own registered agent if you have an office where people regularly work.

Note that I am not going out of my way to conceal the identity of the nonprofit board members / members of the LLC.

Why do you need a "vendor" at all? Do the paperwork yourself and pay the $100 fee (or whatever it is in your chosen state), and Bob's yer uncle. At worst add in a one-time cost of $40 or so to buy a book like Nolo's LLC Handbook[1].

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Nolos-LLC-Handbook-Agreements-Instruc...

Because you don't want to be your own registered agent.

This is out of date advice, primarily given by registered agents who often aren't actual attorneys.

Not everyone wants to have their location publicly available for the world to see. If you can be served a lawsuit, people can "serve" you a bunch of other things too.

Fair enough. For my money, I wouldn't pay somebody else to do that, but I can see the appeal for some folks.

You might want to use a registered agent rather than blasting someone's home address into all kinds of public records, or using an attorney who starts the billing clock to receive spam. And when you go for the more reasonably priced registered agents, it feels like a ticking clock until they start to enshittify.

Eventually the waymo would determine the bus wasn't moving and go around. I had the same situation happen with a garbage truck, but I didn't press the button. It can handle the scenario if you just wait.