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Just because you are a founder, does not mean you "are" the company. To build culture as a company, you need people to "grow up" within said company. To be sustainable for a long term, it's more important to have a team that is familiar with your company, the way you do things and the issues you encounter along the way. Someone "growing up" in your company will be way more valuable long term. Sure, you might say a senior dev will be able to grow much the same way but 1. He will cost more upfront 2. He might have (justifiably) have higher standards of his own and leave you for a better offer 3. He will be less flexible in trying out new things

Those are generalizations but in my experience, once the 5-Year mark passes, a junior is pretty much always a better colleague than a senior.

This is not to say that you should not hire seniors but you need a good mix of trainers and trainees. Training employees can also make a senior much more effective at his own job.

Have you looked into VyOS?

Nice work, but I feel like it's not required to use AWS for this. There are small hosting companies with specialized servers (50gbit shared medium for under 10$), you could probably do this under 100$ with some optimization.

For whatever reason, apps need to request the microphone permission first to show up in the settings menu. For other permissions you can drag/drop the application into the settings window, but not for the microphone permission.

The bug with the outlined windows really threw me back a decade. It's exactly how a bad KDE MacOS rice looked back then lol

I did try that amongst other things. Launching Ableton via Terminal also brought up the microphone permission pop-up...for the Terminal app. One has to wonder if a System that regularly "forgets" permissions is even secure at all.

What you are describing is a symptom of a system already in the process of breaking. The "OG Hacker Mentality" is a thing of the past, corporations are run by executives looking at money, maybe at shareholders but never at users. Most companies have internal processes with complexity comparable to government processes and outsourcing/using a SaaS for everything is just what managers do to get a short term win and thereby a promotion. UI/UX design on the other hand has to be done by a small group, with a very thought out concept and lots of freedom and no financial pressure. However, executives see UI/UX developers as glorified icon-generators. They are already talking about doing UI/UX design with AI. Tell me, when has an AI ever cared for usability?

A UI/UX Dev has two choices in 2026: 1. Try to execute their own vision and get shot down into burnout by management 2. Just make everything look shiny and modern, create demos that look great and get promoted

I guess they only work on Apple Silicon software by now and only do the absolute minimum on Intel/AMD support. It's getting phased out anyway next update, which is also a shame for a machine that 5 years ago cost more than a pretty great car.

Exactly. The whole permissions system, while nice in theory, just does not work in practice most of the time. Apple needs to understand, that unifying experience across mobile/desktop is neither possible nor the right thing to do.