Great work on the 20% of making a working chat app. Now somebody has to do the remaining 80% and then the other remaining 80%.

Thanks. It was just a fun exercise and I had fun writing about it.

It’s against money laundering. Onerous regulations being interpreted highly defensively create these kind outcomes.

Neither the people creating the legislations nor the people at Apple responsible for these flows care very much about collateral damage.

I think it's a combination of money laundering and phone scams where people are told they owe money to the IRS or something and are tricked into buying a bunch of gift cards.

That said, if buying and redeeming gift cards are such an indicator of fraud that people are legitimately afraid of getting their accounts permanently locked, why doesn't Apple just stop selling them?

Apple keeps money from the gift card after banning you. Just business, nothing personal.

Digital feudalism

All these platforms are kind of a non-starter at scale. The thing that would really stand out is something that has the user friendly workflow definition but then for production running, bakes it into a container that's orchestrated on k8s natively.

We figured out a decade ago or so that Slack was entirely unsustainable for any kind of community type usage. Glad to see that more people are coming to that realization.

I suspect that the same applies to discord.

NPM is a Github company and when there was a relatively serious attack in Github Actions a while back there was also pretty much zero response from them.

Github is SOC2 compliant, but that of course means nothing really.

The amount of times I've used `git bisect` productively can be counted on one hand.

It takes altogether too long for many people to find out that they have a body.

I agree, it's not until something breaks that people realize they need to take care of their body.

Is it better than Cleanshot?

No idea. I got Shottr and it was just right. If Cleanshot doesn't have enough, then maybe give it a shot.

> An AWS consultant who’d been covering my bills disappeared, citing losses from the FTX collapse.

Yeah, well. The dog ate my homework.

GitHub’s incident response to this took 17 hours give or take.

Actions is a paid service but Microsoft probably replaced all the security teams with AI.