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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 29d

ActiveCollab September update:

👥 Team Profiles.Stay on top of team projects, tasks, and availability,
⏲️ Reminders for Notifications. Never lose track of a notification again.

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September Recap: Team Profiles and Reminders

Now you can build custom teams in your ActiveCollab workspace, and use notification reminders to make sure everyone stays on top of their work, time, and project goals. 00:00 Intro 00:21 Team…

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · Sep 23

Have two accounts, one for global and one for local conversations. Usually topics and areas of interest differ, sometimes even the social networks.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · Aug 28

Lets promote curiosity and tinkering, it will definitely help us exercise that bias for action muscle. Like with an actual workshop, safety first, of course. ✌️

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · Jul 12

Was 100% accuracy required?

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · Jun 26

Great books 👌 Got to Cibola Burn, and then got distracted with other series (first Mistborn, now neck deep in the world the First Law). Need to get back to the Rocinante crew.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · Jun 12

Heroes completed. I still miss Tul Duru 🗡️

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · Jun 7

Depends on what's being presented. For concepts and ideas, no interruption is usually a good approach, as questions are frequnetly answered later on in presentation part.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · Jun 5

During April and May ActiveCollab team shipped:

📊 All new Time dashboard
🔌 Updated QuickBooks integrations
🏋️ Up to 5x faster Workload
💵 Cost summary report for projects and tasks
🗓️ Improved calendar filtering

Read more 👇 activecollab.com/blog/recaps/...

April and May Recap: Time Dashboard, QuickBooks integration, Workload, Cost Summary Report, and Calendar Event Filtering

Your favorite productivity and collaboration workspace got even better: check out the updates!

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · Jun 3

Or have been doing that for a long time. There's so many established products where shipping fast is the only way to stay competitive. Trunk Based Development, CD, mature design systems and UI pattern libraries, reusable (micro)services (auth, billing…), all big assets.

Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · Jun 2

Maybe hook needs to be a bit more "pointy"? Show the graph of CL revenue over the decades, a list of contenders that did not succeed in overthrowing it etc? Something to test maybe?

PS: Instant subscribe 👋

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · May 6

I mean a reliable removal of signatures, so actual content of messages remain.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · May 5

Do you still experience problems with signature stripping, or is that something that got solved long time ago, but I did not get the memo? 😀

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · May 3

HTMX shows an interesting direction. I would expect far richer palette of standard form and layout components.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · Apr 16

Actually, you want both.

Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · Apr 5

March was a busy month here at #ActiveCollab. We shipped:

🚀 ActiveCollab 8 launched to most accounts
⏱️ All new Time Report, with new ways to filter, sort and group data
💰 New ways to create invoices
📆 Improved handling of recurring calendar events

March Recap: ActiveCollab 8 Rollout, Revamped Time Reports, Client Invoices, and Recurring Events in Calendar

From ActiveCollab 8 rollout and improved time reports, to client invoice widgets, and recurring events: March was busy over here!

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · Apr 2

Ah, OK. You also have public pages. In our case everything's behind login, but there are some types of notifications that people did try to exploit. Weirdest thing was a wave of accounts that paid, and then sent spam.🤯

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · Apr 1

Which email donains are they using? What's the HelpSpot funcgion that they are using to send spam? Creating help desk tickets and sending them out?

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · Apr 1

I healthy dose of skepticism is required, it has been like that for years. Some areas are more problematic that the others (social media, vs closed communities).

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · Mar 23

Question was what you think about offering a really cheap plan, way cheaper than the rest of the offering, as a free plan replacement. Most of the time, Good-Better-Best are equally "spaced" price-wise. There's linearity to the price. I'm asking about Good plan being 5x cheaper than middle plan.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · Mar 23

The idea is to have something in the range of impulsive purchase, but they actually have to commit by paying. If Good works for them, fine, they are a paying customer, but if they grow and need Better, it's easy to upgrade, and their card is already on file.

Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · Mar 23

What about plans that offer great value for an intentionally low price? Ex, there are Good, Better & Best plans. Best and Better and priced as they should be: $20 and $40 per user per month, but Good is $10 per month for 10 people.

Jira had something like that, but turned it to free at some point.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · Mar 19

Share WiFi passwords between devices. When traveling and connecting to a new WiFi, first person connects, and shares the password with everyone else.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · Mar 13

"The IoT industry isn’t focused on making great products—it’s focused on trapping consumers into ecosystems" We built a new, modern family house in 2018. There's not a single smart home device in it. When old tech's better than new, I just pass.

The Illusion of a Smart Home

I woke up too early this morning to watch India play Australia in the Champions Trophy cricket. I know, I don’t have a life. But while the game was unfolding...

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · Mar 7

Touché

Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · Mar 7

What type of tools are you referring to? Editors? Frameworks? Librarirs? CLI tools?

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