A CEO answered on Twitter:

> Mine runs my auto parts company.. tracks 395K products on Amazon, manages 3 warehouses, scrapes competitor pricing, handles email, posts to social media

https://x.com/BrianRoyBarber/status/2023389093648884000

Lol, I believe this thread is a bait:

> Do you still have friends?

> Fortunately, I do. My OpenClaw agent keeps a personal friends CRM and reminds me to actively maintain my friendships using a weekly CRON, it event suggest what to write/plan/talk abou

Been using tachyons.css

Would love to take this for a test if it is available for public use

I just created a repo: https://github.com/marchildmann/IDS-Think It's MIT licensed. Would love feedback, especially on the data table component.

Remember blackhat SEO? This is the new blackhat AEO

Doesn't bsky support rss: profile_url/rss ?

For example: This is rss for Simon Willison: https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/rss

I wish I could host the RSS and the bsky network can accept them.

I use predictions to prepare rather than to plan.

Planing depends on deterministic view of the future. I used to plan (esp annual plans) until about 5 years. Now I scan for trends and prepare myself for different scenarios that can come in the future. Even if you get it approximately right, you stand apart.

For tech trends, I read Simon, Benedict Evans, Mary Meeker etc. Simon is in a better position make these predictions than anyone else having closely analyzed these trends over the last few years.

Here I wrote about my approach: https://www.jjude.com/shape-the-future/

I want to get good at "taste"

I am a software engineer and I have trained to think logically and structurally. In that processes, I have lost "taste". I don't have any design (user facing) capability. I bet in the near future, developing apps and hosting will become so easy that we will soon see "substack for apps" [1].

If I'm right, the thing that will set me still apart (I'm currently a CTO with 30 years of experience) will be taste and not engineering. Or putting it differently, taste + engineering will set me apart than just engineering.

I don't know what that will look like yet. But that is what I want to learn in 2026.

[1]: https://jjude.com/substack-for-apps/

I love the design and content. Keep writing Nicolas

What service(s) are you using now? What did you move to?

A small one (afaik) in a location that I wanted in the US [1]. I'm not running a bank so I'd prefer to just go down if I'm ever attacked.

[1] https://shifthosting.com/

I blog using 11ty and host with netlify. No cost. There are gitlab pages, github pages and so many different options to blog for free.

I have been blogging since 2003. My reasons,learning, and rewards and why I still blog:

- It is a personal blog = 1st audience is me. Best self-improvement investment I made - I blog for my present self: I blog about what I read, what I'm thinking about a topic, what I learned etc. But also I blog for my future self: the trends I'm noticing, how I should prepare and I am preparing - Since it is a personal blog, sometimes I blog about books I read, sermons I preach, technical notes. All mixed up. - This year got about 40k YTD traffic, which is not bad for a personal blog. Highest traffic came for my post on openwebui.

Benefits I've seen: - I am not selling anything or running ads. So there are no first order monetization - Since I blog about topics that matter to me (career, tech trends), I already have a clear thinking on those topics. So when they come up for discussions, I am able to speak clearly and with depth. That has landed me in promotions, faster career growth, coaching opportunities, and more - People share my blog post when certain topics come up for discussion. This has increased my influence and their respect towards me.

If you are interested to see how my blog has changed over time, I have kept a changelog: https://www.jjude.com/changelog/

I love the idea of a personal site/blog changelog!