Based on my experience from 2-3 years ago, I would say to avoid it. It would be a decent pick for a really small team without a lot of product management expectation, which would probably be served just as well by something like trello.
Example: We wanted to create tasks from Intercom conversations and the only way was a custom implementation. Using their api was not a pleasant experience.
Also there were annoying UI bugs that made the product feel unpolished. I ended up using tampermonkey to fix and improve the UI.
We ended up switching to jira and it’s 100% an upgrade, we were happy with the change. People shit on it when it goes down, same as github, but then it’s all fine and dandy the other 99% of the time.
What I did to reduce the noise in my mailbox is to unsubscribe from all marketing emails, and I move the ones that still come through to spam folder. It was a bit tedious at first, but now gmail is doing a pretty good job at automatically filtering out senders that do not respect my request to unsubscribe.
I saw a post about ST4 beta here on HN about a month ago. Decided to pay for the license to support the devs, as I was using just the evaluation version before I’ve started by programming career, and then I’ve switched to IDEs and went back to editor world with Atom. ST introduced me to the world of multiple cursors and easy to usr shortcuts. Atom ported that well, and it’s the first thing I set up in vscode (thanks to the atom keymap package).
Sadly, I agree with the post I saw on the other thread month or so ago: “too little, too late”.
I see a lot of mention of how ST is fast, and that’s impressive. But being fast does not make my job web dev easier.
Vscode still delivers a superior developer experience, it’s easier for me to understand what’s going on under the hood and work with plugins. The speed is good enough, I work around the slower startup by having a window open at all times while working, so opening a new file is nearly instant.
I’m still glad that I’ve paid for the license. It makes me happy to see small apps that pack a punch and are fast, rather than going for the lazy way of using electron and eat up resources like crazy.
I intend to give ST more time on my personal projects. But I just don’t feel as productive, and to me it matters when I’m using an editor almost 8h a day.
I have a ModMic 4 and I am disappointed. I used it for voice calls with my Sennheiser Momentum headphones.
- Accidentally pulling on the wire will cause it to turn on the magnetic handle and create unpleasant noise for others.
- It picks up signal from the phone trying to connect and transmits it to the listeners as buzzing sound. So I had to put my phone far away to avoid that.
- The mute switch does not really mute, it’s more like turning the volume to 10%. Learned that the hard/awkward way.
- Sound quality is mediocre, to me it always sounded like any generic mid-range headphones+mic combo.
If I could test ModMic before buying it, I would pass. I’d rather put the money towards a standalone mic (e.g. yeti) + boom arm. It’s expensive, but the quality is way better. I now use Røde PodMic with Scarlett Solo. It’s whole other price tier, but I do not regret spending that money, which I cannot say for the ModMic.
> Asana IPO'd last year and still wasn't profitable
This is interesting to hear. From my research last year, it’s more expensive compared to Jira. I had to use Asana at work for high-level planning and it was, in my experience working as an engineer, an inferior product compared to Jira. The only upside I could see is the reporting/project overview and search. But these features are only useful to the manager. For me, it’s just a cumbersome tool. I’ve tried to get used to it, but I wasn’t sold.
Some things that made it difficult to use Asana:
- No markdown support for the longest time.
- No code block formatting.
- Old comments collapsed by default, which hides the full context. This caused people to miss information and ask questions that were already answered.
I do realize Jira and Asana are not trying to address the same problem space. But to manage a team of engineers I would pick Jira every time.
Given your goal, I’m surprised you haven’t found a solution to this already.
I had a similar goal, and with Atom, I’ve solved it with a hacked-together script that automatically backed up the installed packages and replayed the apm install when I called the script.
I’ve used it since the beginning and it works flawlessly. I’ve even used it between macOS (primary device), Windows and Linux (popOS) machines and it works great. VSCode does a great job in keeping platform-specific settings so you don’t break it for the other device.
It’s much better than the approach I’ve used with Atom because I do not have to think about it, it just happens in the background. The only thing you need to do is to enable the sync and then let it do its job.
I solve that with multiple desktops feature on macOS. You also get that on Linux and newer versions of Windows. I use either trackpad swipe or ctrl+[left/right] to navigate.
The important thing is to set the desktops to be static (disable the “smart” rearranging) and set the windows to always open in the same desktop.
This makes my experience on a 16” screen so great that I have a hard time adjusting to using two monitors.
What I dislike about Linux in general is how often the mentality for an app is “you’re using Linux, just find the repository and figure out how to get the release to your system or build it yourself”.
I get better “ Product vs. Product” and “Product Review” results with ddg these days.
Once I took the time to read one of the sites and it’s obvious it’s generated content, and awful at that. I still reading pros and cons of one of the product and the same thing was mentioned under both, just with different wording.
GPT-3 or similar is going to make this way worse.
The only time I still use google (via !g on ddg, what an awesome feature) is to search for local info or in native language. But even here ddg is getting better, especially if I append the name of my city or country.
