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As far as I know, incorporating a BV in the Netherlands can be done in 1-2 weeks, with a lot of less pain. Many services are integrated and available online.
You call €25k liability? I just decided I won't work with a company that can't cover €25M in liability. Should the state force you to block that in your bank account just in case you want to work with me?
https://zed.dev/blog (somewhat quirkier, sidebars)
https://tailscale.com/blog (overall clean)
https://arun.is/blog (sidebar, colors)
https://www.vitsoe.com/us/voice (general feel)
https://github.com/TryGhost/Headline (interesting article header, open source)
To be clear: as a prototype, it's more than fine. As long as the UI isn't the innovation, make it real first and experiment with it as much as you can. Show it to users, see whether they understand it and see the value. As a domain expert, making your ideas real in any way will make it easier to bring others on board who can create a pleasant experience.
The UI you're showing now looks more like a bag of controls thrown on a page by a backend engineer in 2006 and less like a B2C product in 2026. Various boxes all over the place, weird colors, misalignment, inconsistent spacing, confusing what does what, a random calculator(?) in the middle of the screen, unclear abbreviated labels. It needs so much work that a full rethink might be in order.
If you continue developing this, I recommend completely scrapping the UI and finding a person or AI who can create something usable. What you're showing there is really that bad -- if you consider it acceptable, and expect to be able to sell it, then you really need to partner up with someone who knows what they're doing.
You did not do the work, why should you feel any ownership of it? You asked someone else to do it, they did it, and you used the result. You could have just as well used Fiverr.
But you're right to have an existential crisis if you're in the creative industry, we all have that capable someone else on our phones now for $20/month.
I don't understand Casio watches. I know that aesthetics are highly subjective but, outside of retro nostalgia, does anyone actually enjoy looking at this thing on their wrist?
The massive plastic bezel shouting PROTECTION, G-SHOCK, G-LIDE, random text on the display like SOLAR POWERED, HEART RATE, START-STOP, SHOCK RESIST, WATER RESIST 20BAR, TIDE GRAPH, besides the permanent function labels, all strike me as childish at best, not something an adult would wear unironically.
For another genre suggestion: handpan music. It's rhythmic and repetitive, but warmer than electronica, and fades nicely in the background:
You can run something like Qwen 2.5 Coder on a regular machine (https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B) but it's really not in the same universe with Claude Code, it will be slow and generate bad code.
It might make sense to run a small LLM locally for general conversation or very specific tasks, but they're not a serious option for agentic coding.
Most likely, and nobody cares.
Already many years ago I remember installing a firewall on my phone and noticing in surprise that Outlook was not connecting at all to my private mail server, but instead only sending my credentials to their cloud and downloading messages from there.
The only Android mail client not making random calls to cloud servers was (back then) K-9 Mail.
Indeed, the current state of affairs is rather sad.
To employ a regular (non-management) employee in Spain (and it applies anywhere else in Europe), an Estonian company would to at least have a local address, then register and maintain regular contact with several authorities there (chamber of commerce, social administration, tax office). The bureaucratic overhead makes it practically impossible to have employees across several countries (definitely as a small company), the only practical option is to pay an employer of record ~600 EUR/month extra (significant salary difference) only for the joy of maintaining the employment paperwork.
The really fun part happens if a managing director moves. Then the company is considered to have a permanent establishment in Spain, needs now to maintain ALL administration like a Spanish company, and to comply with Spanish corporate law, in parallel to what it was already doing at home. Both countries' laws apply, both expect taxes, and it is not even clear cut how much of the company activity and profits should be taxed by the company's home country and how much by the director's country! And having multiple managing directors in several countries is probably an exercise in frustration.
Then, if the director has enough and moves somewhere else, it all starts again in the new country (and you also have the headache, costs, and risks of closing the Spanish entity).
The EU may have free travel, but you can basically forget actually freely moving around as a small business owner, the company administration is prohibitively complicated.
_Every_ ticket system with an API (all of them) is a ticket system in a box. You can add that functionality to your application by talking to the API directly.
I think what you are thinking about is a standard API for ticket systems, that would allow you to transparently swap them. Unlike authentication, nobody has bothered to standardize something like that because ticket systems are more varied, not as often integrated into other platforms, and even more rarely replaced.
If AI replaces workers and pays taxes, should it also vote and receive social security?
Belgium is not not exactly known for its functional government. They have a lot of them and can't seem to quite keep them together.
https://www.brusselstimes.com/1862716/542-days-brussels-brea...
https://contexts.co is another good way to jump around windows in macOS.
You Cmd-Tab, release Tab but keep holding Cmd, and type the name or shortcut of the window. No preconfiguration necessary, it becomes automatic to just tell it what you want.
Are you using "building" to mean "creating content" for the web? Then yes, in absolute numbers, it's more worth it (monetarily) than ever to create content. There are more people than ever making serious revenue with things they are publishing on the big platforms -- even if competition is increasing, consumption is also high.
"Building" websites? Indeed eroded by social media, many businesses are happy with only a Facebook/Instagram presence.
"Building" software? Yes and no: it's all still on the web but the increasing number of developers, and now AI, are making it easier to fill niches. There aren't many low hanging fruit left, you won't get rich quick with a todo app.
The value of the space is whatever the user/team finds valuable.
You almost had the right idea there: the value of what this emits is really in the summary of diffs. I'm certainly not going to go through each commit and read the diff each time I look at the log, but I still want to understand what happened and be able to find individual commits. If extra information about the author's thoughts is just not available, I'd much rather have summaries than a blank log of "WIP" comments.
It's absurd to gatekeep commit messages to only "the thoughts of the author", even if that's what usually goes in there. A good diff summary might even be more useful than a ramble that doesn't mention important changes.
Oh don't get me wrong, I have nothing against publishing notebooks, on GitHub or anywhere else. That was the convenient part. The negative feature was Jupyter mixing output into the file source code, making it difficult to version.
With Marimo, the way to achieve the same result is to have it (automatically) export the notebook to a _separate_ static HTML file: https://docs.marimo.io/guides/exporting/#export-from-a-runni...
From the looks of it, CoreWeave is a crypto company now turned AI company, currently offering infrastructure/cloud services. Definitely no focus on data or developer tools. (Also see the recent "CoreWeave is a time bomb" recent articles here, https://hn.algolia.com/?q=CoreWeave).
It's sad Marimo got sucked up into this, I fully expect it will not receive the love and support it deserves, especially now that it was shaping up to be an amazing tool. I can only hope it will fail quickly and painfully, so as to spawn an open source fork that will outlast the AI bubble.
Would love to be wrong.
It's not reasonable to expect a source code management system to display the last output of every Python script.
It might have been convenient for Jupyter notebooks, but that was a side effect of what's essentially a negative feature, the last output of every cell being thoroughly mixed with the source code.
Same here, Fedora and iOS. I've mostly stopped using it because I couldn't rely on the app working when I needed it.
The computer doesn't even change addresses, there is no need for mDNS or anything fancy, setting up devices manually once would be just fine.
Even today many apps still fit perfectly within those constraints. I'd gladly accept a fixed layout and no internationalization if that would mean sitting down and writing a rich app with one single dependency (!), zero boilerplate setup, and easy deployment.
The alternative I'd suggest to someone using Hugo for a simple site/blog would be https://www.getzola.org. Single binary, batteries included.
Does anyone have a better go to?
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For example, you can get a kit around $32: https://a.aliexpress.com/_Eya0rSM
You're spot on. Thanks for drawing this out and making it clear that, no matter what might be going on in the industry, the original poster's issue obtaining (and probably keeping) a job is about their contrarian attitude and lack of social skills.
There is no canned way to do it in one shot, but using regular Django session authentication together with a PWA frontend hosted separately is not that difficult.
The actual authentication remains on the Django app, using the standard way of POSTing to a login form and receiving a session cookie -- only instead of a server-generated page serving a HTML form, you have the PWA lipstick sending data directly. This approach is so much simpler than dealing with id/access/refresh tokens, encryption keys, black lists, and all of the OIDC dance.
So we should stop the coding challenges, stop LeetCode, stop whiteboarding, stop profiling candidates, stop asking for their GitHub page. How is hiring supposed to work then? Just post the contract online and the first one to mail it back gets the job?
I like live coding challenges, something like a ~2 hour pair programming session, ideally modifying an existing project. I invest as much time as each candidate, while we are both exploring whether we want to work together.