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Article provides really some terrible examples of IPOs that failed. All of those companies were unable to deliver revenue even close to what were asummed during private investement rounds. System is not broken and it punishes disfunctiinal businesses pretty well.

I got advice on reading long time ago that helped me a lot: "Start reading what you like until you start liking to read". And yes, books are the best source of any information that has to be digested by you. Its very personal journey not biased by other who might digested this for you (like blogs or podcasts). Its important to learn how to understand and digest things rather than consume and reproduce thoughts of others.

Surprised that there is no fish shell in shell section. Also I miss pentadactly in my Firefox so much nowadays.

It amazes me that in some cases brand love can overpower common sense. When OP concerned about privacy and security is told by loyal brand users to "give it up". I wonder if companies realize power of blind brand loyalty and utilize this to their own advantage.

In my experience analytics usually become a hot topic in product group of the company when product evolution stop. We did all the major features but we still need growth, so to pick new direction we need some insight on our users.

Ah, this famous REPL driven development. After which we are left with highly coupled codebase that has almost no tests. After doing clojure for 6+ years I forced myself at some point to disable REPL, it allows one to go fast in short term and creates way too much debt long term.

Nowadays I find repl driven approach to be not so sustainable for mid to large sizes of teams.

It is fun on small/personal projects though.

Yes. They might not look trendy anymore, but they are still heavily used in the industry. I constantly see in the industry use cases where sold or ES would be much better choice, but those options are simply ignored because they are rarely visible at the top of tech publications.

I have a trello board with all personal ideas/projects. New idea? Write it down. Have some spare time? Do some work on one of the ideas/project. Trick is to optimize setup on anything you do in the way that it takes seconds to start working. For that you have to know an overview of what needs to be done and setup process should be as painless as possible.

Hardest for me in that regard are hardware projects. I don't really have any dedicated hardware workbench. So every time I have to get all my boxes out, all my equipment (soldering station, meeters, etc) and then pack it back. Which usually means I don't have enough time to do actual work.

I did a small app in flutter last week out of curiosity (fetching rss/atom feeds, rendering html content) and was surprised how easy it was to work with tooling that flutter provides. Also was pleasant surprised on how well Dart fits in to this use case. Go flutter!