robinwarren

The ft has some good stuff, this is probably a good jumping off point https://www.ft.com/content/c7bb24c9-964d-479f-ba24-03a2b2df6...

That's really cool to hear. We used to make use of the toy library in Bristol when we lived there, it was a great way to get toys the kids could play with for 2 weeks then return them when they got bored :)

I did a lot of listening to the griefcast (podcast with comedians talking about people they lost) recently which I think helped me. No idea if that's good advice and the people on it skew heavily uk centric so you might not know any of them. Good luck!

The plan at the moment is to use this as a lead magnet for our main (paid) tool https://www.bluecatreports.com/

But, possibly we will discover some need for features we could add to a paid version of this in future.

I think this was a deliberate move from the Trello team not to implement this. They were very much focussed on the "not developers" market and didn't want to implement features which were mostly only of interest to a developer audience. It seemed to work quite well for them commercially :)

Trello don't allow any more fine grained access than this. Power-ups can request view and write access and that is about it. No way to say we only want access to the current board or etc. Or that we only want to be able to update labels/members but not add comments.

They have been talking about changing that, but I understand it is complex and never really becomes a priority

It would also be software dev 101 for an organisation of AWS's size and clout to do some pretty basic things - If someone's costs increase drastically (ie spending in 24hrs what they spent in the last year or etc.) then maybe flag it up to them - If the above is combined with costs on services/regions they've not used, definitely maybe contact them? - If the above is combined with a well known exploit used on compromised accounts, again maybe contact them?

Not saying the OP has no responsibility here. Just that I don't think it is that black and white. There is plenty AWS could do to avoid this sort of thing happening. Totally fair to call them out for that. Especially when the cost of phoning support is $2-3k specifically because of the new costs on your account!

Fair enough, I did read this somewhere but it is obviously wrong now I check it out. Thanks!

Note, I think, you also need to be GDPR compliant for EU users when they are not in the EU. So I don't think IP blocking actually works for 100% of cases.

I would suggest not getting too hung up on this, it is showing you the worst outcome and assuming you have made a good effort to be compliant I should think things would be fine even then. No doubt you have Ts and Cs, that document is full of clauses put in place because of things like this, and any of them could probably result in a worse letter from a customer wanting to sue you over something. But I image also that hasn't happened to you yet either?

Re: getting your team more interested in testing. This is not an easy thing to get momentum on if people aren't used to it. Yes to getting the test time down (and keeping it down)

Also, try defining (maybe in collaboration with the team) the tests you want people to write rather than leaving it up to them or (hopefully not) expecting 100% coverage. I wrote this on my thoughts a while back https://getcorrello.com/blog/2015/11/20/how-much-automated-t... We had some success with increasing testing using that and code review so others could check tests were being written. Still not total buy in to be honest but a big move in the right direction :)

One surprising thing was that after years of thinking I was encouraging my team to write tests, the main feedback on why they didn't was that the didn't have time. Making it an explicit part of the process and importantly defining what tests didn't need to be maintained forever really helped.

I think it is reasonable to question what people mean by "can't discuss". As mentioned in the article people can discuss anything, but certain things are met with some pushback which makes discussing them hard or unpleasant.

I would say, if you hold one of these "taboo" opinions there is a reasonable amount of responsibility on you for how you open a discussion on them. If you do want to discuss them you need to try and raise them in a way which shows you are genuinely interested in discussion, including possibly changing your own opinion and trying to get a better understanding of others opinions without necessarily judging them. Rather than coming from a fixed position and trying to convert people, which in my experience rarely works.

If you hold one of more of these taboo opinions and think I am being rude, suggesting you don't discuss properly it that those you discuss with are all perfect reasonable beings that is not the case. But in my experience it is not common for people to open a discussion honestly looking to assess their own opinions as well as those they are discussing with. If you aren't open to change your mind, why should anyone be open to change theirs? If you are already doing that, then good for you! Hopefully some minds will get changed and we can all move forward with a more honest understanding of the world.

Thanks for the big write up, very insightful.

I actually own my own business so focusing on things during work time isn't too hard (Always too much to do regardless of the hours I work). The need for some social contact is an interesting one as I we are also considering moving out of the town we live in with my family. I think we will use that as an excuse to join some local groups and get involved with things and hence meet people that way.

Thanks!

Thanks, this is interesting. I am considering a similar 'until the kids are at school' approach. We will see how I want to spend my time when we get to that bridge, back fulltime, or maybe more time on hobbies?

If you haven't done so already (and are male) you might try growing a beard? I've seen a few 'young' team leads go that route and it is surprisingly effective.

This is an interesting idea, maybe I should have a mini-retirement through to when my kids start school?

I had thought of a similar approach from the other side. Ie arranging my work as one off missions (ie raise activation rates 2x) and then deciding after each one whether I continue working or take a break. There are a few things getting in the way of that at the moment and I think I prefer the regular if smaller push of working part time. However, for a business owner I guess that could be a nice way to work if it fitted their lifestyle.

I found a bit of this recently when I went 1/2 time on my business after the arrival of my 2nd child. Only having 2-3 days a week meant having a clear plan on what needed to be achieved and made me more realistic about not taking too many things on at once. Those first few weeks back were some of the most productive I've had I think!

Thanks for this, I like the idea of looking at it as a break after 20 years fulltime. It is a nice way to think about it.

Maybe any move to part time isn't a plan to be part time forever, just that it is the right thing right now. There's a lot of people who think the only way to achieve anything (ie starting/growing a business) is to put yourself 100% into it, which then costs time spent with family, hobbies and yourself etc. Maybe going a bit slower for a while on some parts of your life is the right thing to do, then to switch the balance later if/when it is appropriate.

That sounds like a lovely way to spend your time! And also one which seems safe for some time to come which is good, ie you aren't risking your future earning potential with this approach. Congratulations!

Thanks! that's an interesting way to spend your time and nice that both you and your partner could adopt similar work patterns :)

I find if I am procrastinating in situations like that it is often that I don't actually know what the next step is. YMMV but that may be worth thinking about :)

Similar story here for most of the last year. Previously I've had a long (walking) commute to work, enjoyed swimming, running and/or mountain biking. I tried HIIT briefly last year but couldn't find a way to reliably include it in my routine. Just started swimming a few weeks back and think I will maintain that longer term. People will tell you to do x/y/z thing, the truth is you need to find something which works for you and becomes a habit and you can fit into your schedule long term. That could be lifting, swimming, zumba classes, whatever.

Either that or decide you're OK with poor health and a shorter than necessary life! :)

Thanks :)

Luckily when I started out the plugins-for-trello space was very uncluttered. It was mostly abandonware and github projects created by developers over a weekend. So since Corrello is exclusively aimed at Trello teams and was one of the only tools being built fulltime just for that I have been able to piggy back on their success without a lot of serious competition. There is some competition and I expect more will come as others realise the Trello platform is a viable place to build a business but I think that can only be a good thing really.

I started work on https://getcorrello.com (a dashboard for Scrum and Kanban teams using Trello) 2 years ago. It has covered household costs since the middle of last year. I am still a solo founder, looking to grow the business to do more than just cover costs and probably make a hire or two this year.

I've read these posts for a while on HN, it's nice to be able to reply to one finally :)

Force directed graphs. D3js has a solid implementation

Why not have a go here, I'd be interested to hear your rationale.

On a less important note, re the argument being at a level of "how could you vote for someone who said that". That may not be people refusing to engage with what you see as the important points, but them focusing on what they see as the most important points. That doesn't make it right but if it is the case you may do well to understand their point of view holds that someone with his behaviour and character can't be trusted with power, they may see everything else as somewhat irrelevant. If that is the case at least understanding it may help you frame the discussion with such people, and hopefully not dismiss their arguments as petty since they think they are the most important points.

Anyway, aside complete. Let's hear the rationale for being a Trump supporter, I would be genuinely interested to hear it even if I may ultimately disagree.

I have some experience of this in the UK at least. Here we have feeds from the likes of the press association as well as the official results coming from the electoral commission. However, networks may have their own people at some or all of the counts. These would be local journalists who are attending the counts and will feed news stories back to the studio during the night. They will also get the results from the returning officer and call them in.

In the UK at least we aren't meant to release the results until the returning officer reads them out so waiting for any of the above while showing a live feed of a result would mean we don't have the result to show on screen immediately. For this reason you would likely also have people in the studio watching the live feeds from counts and entering the numbers which would then be double checked against the official feed later. This can be tricky when the result is drowned out by cheering from a crowd of supporters! ie "Labout party, John Candidate 22 thousand... <WOOOOOO - YEAAAH> ...hundred and 1 votes"

The focus for news orgs is getting these results out accurately before their competitors, no one wants to be slow to announce the results.

I think this looks interesting for home brewers http://www.grainfather.co.uk/

I suppose you could look at the quality of the application (without any guidelines being set) as part of how you'd like to select companies/founders? So those who are capable communicators and can clearly explain what their business does (or will do) stand out vs those who can't.

I think most successful agile teams would adopt those non-functional requirements not as tasks to be implemented but as cross-cutting concerns of all work. Ie, on a Scrum team they could be part of the Definition of Done, ie "Is the code maintainable" which would not allow some work to be considered completed until it met that definition.

I'm not 100% clear on what you are saying but it sounds like you think agile teams ignore these non-functional requirements in favour of perceived progress on features. I think that may well be true in practice but it is also true of non-agile teams. It is in fact just true of immature development teams the world over. Being agile or not has nothing to do with it. Scrum and other processes do at least try to have something in place to cater for these requirements, which often sadly get overlooked when pressure is applied to make flat out progress on features.

I'm interested to know how you identify the trello cards in the commit message? Are you using your own codes to identify them? I'm thinking of building something similar myself.