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I recently searched for an application to manage my agents and work streams, on top of Claude Code. Chat called them "task cockpits", but I'm sure I've seen other terms used for this category. I found a bunch that were abandoned already. And I didn't see Herdr until I already selected Pane, and committed to giving that one an honest try. It makes me wonder, is there any winners in this space yet, or is it just as fragmented as it seems?

Someone may run into some issues upgrading their one server, and decide to power through it. Enterprises create a project plan, have meetings, get QA involved, identify risks, mitigate them, need sign off from the security team, not just on the new Ubuntu version, but they may talk themselves into re-certifying the entire bla-di-blah. For them it makes economic sense (in the short term) to just pay for the support plan that keeps them "compliant" and comfortable on the current version.

And this, among other things, is why I like the agency that small companies should be able to offer you.

I'm not stoked about macros, but the overhead for newcomers to the codebase, as an argument, I find weak. There's so many things that make understanding a new (to you) codebase hard, and I'm not hearing an argument that macros stand out, there.

And that is useless if you have meetings with people that "have standardized" on Zoom, and that hold some sort of leverage over you, like clients/customers.

Roadway gluing is designed to sway public opinion -> change politics -> affect the corporations.

This is designed to... affect the corporations. (Swaying public opinion could be seen as a secondary effect.)

I also realize it's not that simple. They probably didn't affect Microsoft here, rather a construction company, who are now calling their insurance company? Or the construction company is eating the cost for the damage, because it's deemed that the site wasn't adequately secured?

Maybe it's not.

Guidelines:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, (...) If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Yeah, like how developers were en-masse ditching GitHub to go to GitLab when Microsoft acquired GitHub.

People often say they'd gladly pay a bit more, but I don't think that's how they act.

In the case of Ryanair, I think not using them often means that a casual weekend away could become a much bigger dent in my family's monthly budget.

Oh, don't get me started on Ryanair, but alas.

You go through what seems the entire check-in process, you get what seems like a summary at the end, with a link to a UK government site where you need to go next to get a travel authorization, I spend an hour doing that, finally finish that, I show up to the airport the next morning to be told I'm not checked in, having to pay a hefty fee to do a late check-in for each of my five passengers. The staff at the airport isn't really Ryanair's, so recourse there. (As if having real Ryanair staff would have made a difference.)

Same trip, coming back, we wait in the central terminal building until our gate is published. We go over to the gate, one of our passengers being in a wheelchair, needing an elevator, which are out of service. Friendly airport staff help us with the long detour to get to our gate. By now the doors are closed, we missed our flight. Again, having to pay a hefty fee to rebook for each of my five passengers. This is Ryanair staff, still no recourse. (But plenty of contempt.)

I admit defeat, but my wife is still motivated to talk to customer support. This is months ago, I don't think that went anywhere either. They're mostly impenetrable.

I don't mind their baggage policies, it's a known thing that there's upsales every step of the way, that's baked in by now (pretty much across the industry). But there's still plenty deep-dark patterns left.

Thank goodness that we can vote with our feet, right, and just don't buy from them anymore. But guess what, we booked another flight for next month :)

I find it hard to judge how much, if at all, this will help, but I'm all for email being more secure, to the point that organizations (banks, governments, insurance companies) stop creating walled-email alternatives: please log in to our secure message center, where you can only see our messages poorly formatted, and for a short time, until we permanently delete them. I like that my Inbox is a somewhat-searchable, historical record of my life, and these alternatives break that.

I think the layout _wants_ to look like a newspaper, but just doesn't quite end up looking like one. where a newspaper may have longer columns mixed in with shorter articles, this one has mostly short articles that then don't quite align. But hey, good luck to this project!

> you can use it for recurrent payment, split payments, financing, cashout and almost all things a CC can do nowadays

But can credit cards really do all those things? You just entrust your credit card number to a party that does it for you, but the credit card system itself isn't taking care of those things like recurring payments.

That it's a fishy story?

That is certainly the point where it started to feel arbitrary for me.

>I tend to not actually read more than a 100-line markdown file

I tend to not actually read more than 100-lines of anything anymore. I've long referred to myself as "the Google generation": only being able to read the summaries in a search result. That, and the typical doomscrolling model of social media have affected my attention span. Reading anything more substantial takes real effort now.