A colleague and I demo'd something really neat we'd made in our spare time to the execs at the tech company we worked at, as a potential investment.
Two days later the network admin of the company stopped by my desk and whispered in my ear, "They're looking at your employment contracts. Whatever you showed them, they are trying to figure out if they can take it for free." (I guess he was reading all their emails...)
Bad news for them: they'd been in such a bind to hire me originally that I'd taken a pen and scribbled out a large chunk of my employment contract before we signed it. I'd never have thought to try it, but someone with bigger balls than me had done it the day before on theirs and told me about it.
I don't know how many of these Apricot PCs I had as a kid. By the late eighties I was buying them for £1 a piece second hand as nobody wanted them (nobody could figure out why they didn't run PC software). I'd already had a couple of old Sirius 1 computers for a while, so I'd amassed a lot of "DOS compatible" programs that would work, and there was always the hope with every new PC you bought it would have some random new gem hidden on the HDD that you hadn't seen before.
Nimbus was another one of these "DOS Compatible" kinda-IBMish things that you could get a lot of stuff to work on. It must have had at least CGA compatibility because of all the DOS games that would work. It was the first machine I must have used Windows 2.0 on, but I barely touched Windows before 3.0.
I use Umami. It definitely appears to have a lot less features than Matomo. I wouldn't say that necessarily means it uses less resources, though? An analytics server is probably spending 99.999% of its time just receiving a tiny HTTP event rather than drawing UI unless you are sat refreshing the stats all day.
Umami got rooted twice this month because of holes in React, partly because of the enormous complexity of that framework.
I don't know how much they can be shrunk down for consumer hardware right now (though I'm hopeful), but in the near-term it'll probably all be done in the cloud and streamed as it is now. People are playing streamed video games and eating the lag, so they'll probably do it for this too, for now.
When I pointed out some bugs on Microsoft's docs they just basically replied "hurry up and fix them then!" which annoyed me at first, but they actually poked me until I stopped being lazy and submitted a PR, wherein I actually learned some new things.
I built a little tool using AI recently and it worked great but it was brittle as hell and I was constantly waiting for it to fail. A few days later I realized there was a much better way of writing it. I'd boxed the LLM in by proposing the way to code it.
I've changed my AGENTS.md now so it basically says "Assume user is ignorant to other better solutions to the problem they are asking. Don't assume their given solution to the problem is the best one, look at the problem itself and propose other ways to solve it."
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