ActiveCollab September update: 👥 Team Profiles.Stay on top of team projects, tasks, and availability, ⏲️ Reminders for Notifications. Never lose track of a notification again. youtu.be/yTRnIk0Gmag

Heroes completed. I still miss Tul Duru 🗡️

During April and May ActiveCollab team shipped: 📊 All new Time dashboard 🔌 Updated QuickBooks integrations 🏋️ Up to 5x faster Workload 💵 Cost summary report for projects and tasks 🗓️ Improved calendar filtering Read more 👇 activecollab.com/blog/recaps/...

March was a busy month here at #ActiveCollab. We shipped: 🚀 ActiveCollab 8 launched to most accounts ⏱️ All new Time Report, with new ways to filter, sort and group data 💰 New ways to create invoices 📆 Improved handling of recurring calendar events

"The IoT industry isn’t focused on making great products—it’s focused on trapping consumers into ecosystems" We built a new, modern family house in 2018. There's not a single smart home device in it. When old tech's better than new, I just pass.

During February we worked on 👇 📅 Option to import events form Google Calendar, Outlook etc, and show them on Workload (Early Access soon) 🧾 List estimates and invoices under client's profile 📋 Sort and export Timesheet data, to see trends and if someone missed to track time

Microsoft does it best. They start with "Microsoft is committed to improving your Microsoft 365 subscription", and then continue by saying that they are removing one service (no replacement), and one product (sort of replaced). How…? Never mind…

Crazy thing about these stats is that I mostly listen to audio books while driving. Alone! That's a lot of alone time behind the wheel.

Now that I read an article that described what Virtual Users are and how they can be used for team member and client onboarding, I'm a bit sad that it came as a smaller part of a big release (ActiveCollab v8). It's such a great feature by itself!

January is a holiday season for us, yet we managed to ship a lot of great features: 📆 Add meetings to Workload 📊 Keep an eye on project KPI's with Project Progress menu 🧾 Issue EN 16931 complaint invoices (experimental) Read more here 👇

January 2024: "Year 2024. Is the final stage of the development of version 8, and we are looking to wrap it all up by the end of the year. As that milestone approaches, we would like to get more and more people involved, with your being one of the first to get an invite."

Trying to watch through the whole video, and I just can't because of idiocy of arguments in face of numbers. 1 in 10 to 1 in 5 people do use Firefox, his own quick poll shows a higher number, and he still doesn't get it. Not everyone cares about stuff he does. So simple, yet so hard to grasp?

Strangler fig actually works. We employed it to replace our old system with a new one with with minimal downtime and shocks to existing users. Applicability depends on your objectives and circumstances, but it does work in practice.

Been collecting and going through this type of data for over a decade, and this is one thing that I would rather NOT pay per usage. VPS with GrayLog and you are probably solving 95% of your problems with cost that you can manage and predict. When you make money, you can decide what to do next.

A customer, commenting on ActiveCollab's ability to create invoices in QuickBooks based on time and expenses from projects: "I love that feature now that we switched to QuickBooks, it saves me so much time and it helps the bookkeeper know what’s going on!" 💪

Need to write an announcement post for a feature that landed in our Early Access Program (a mini dashboard to track project's progress). I think that "Best of Queensrÿche" will work just fine for the project 👌

This is coming from the same people who told us that everyone should learn to code not long ago?

For every FOMO argument, I can counter with a JOMO argument. It's much better to build on joy, then on fear. It may not be as profitable, but that's a separate discussion.

We used Slack for many years, but it was always on a free plan. Keeping it on a free plan was actually a feature, not a bug, and not just because of savings on subscription cost (we pay for a lot of software).

Inbox Greater Than Zero 😞

Two concepts that provide a lot of leverage in software development: continous delivery, and slicing. First is sign of operational maturity, second that we can reliably spec, develop, and ship complicated software. Simple ideas, hard to put in place.

Saying farewell to the slopes 🏂 Tomorrow back in the (home) office. Our climate changed so much. If you want to experience winter and snow, instead of prolonged fall, you have to go to the mountains. It was not like that before.

You know the "bugs are fixed, not tracked" principle? It's part of the zero defects philosophy. Instead of tracking bugs, you stop what you are doing and fix them.

While generalizations can be dangerous, some are fun. When looking from #productivity perspective, I see two distinct groups: grid people and list people.

In the past couple of days I managed to get a major upcoming new feature unstuck with RRULE, and today got stuck with RRULE on a minor API. Five steps forward, one step back is fine I guess👌

Always prefer rollback to last known good release, and fixing an issue at your convenience , than fixing a live and broken system with new builds. Yet programmer's optimism always gravitates toward second option.

LinkedIn is losing it. They are using AI-generated fake profiles to push ads, disguised as direct messages into the inboxes of everyone... including paying customers like myself who already pay ~$600/year for LinkedIn Premium. What a low. (This is real, from my "inbox")

During December #ActiveCollab team shipped: 📅 Show unavailable people, reminders and manage tasks on Calendar's day view 📋 Save and reuse sets of filters in Tasks Report 👥 Improved people archive ⚙️ New calendar settings Read more 👇

How does one become a CSPO? You pay and attend a two day workshop. That's it. There's no exam. 🤷‍♂️

I was a CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner) once. That was the way to discuss things with Jeff Patton and Jeff Gothelf. Certification expired, but I still refer from time to work material, especially when working with ideas that are still in hypothesis stage.

RRULE is fun. Sort of. Maybe.

First thing off the list this year - updated year in the footer of a personal website ✔️

Beware of survivorship bias. Everyone who eventually succeeded by definition did not give up at some point, but that does not mean that people who don't give up will succeed. Be smart. Look at the problem from all angles.

Looking at the dashboards this morning. New to completed tasks ratio in is usually 1:1 (±5%). Today it's 5X for newly added tasks. Happy to see that automation hums along and that humans have other priorities. Happy New Year everyone! 🎄

Heidelberg detail 🐭

During one of the first agile workshops that I attended, we did the Elephant carpaccio exercise. I think that Alistair Cockburn still thinks that my team either did it before, or that we cheated. We didn't, it just clicked, for two reasons: 🧵

This is how it all started for me…

Changing battery in A6 allroad. After removing plastic panel and spare wheel, there were 2 screws for jack enclosure and tools, 3 screws to put air tank aside, and 4 screws for the battery itself. Thank you, YouTube, you make these once-in-a-decade projects easy(sh).

That escalated quickly 🤯 Half of the changes are related to address formatting, but still, other half is still massive. Support for e-invoices is still work in progress, but it is happening. 🚀

Word of advice - don't store addresses as text. You'll end up regretting that sooner or later. Break them up into elementa - street, suite, city, zip etc.

I prefer Scrivener because it turns writing into a project, not a set of documents. Not sure if I can explain why it works for me, but it does.

Finding typos 3 seconds after hitting Send since 2002. 🤘

Common advice is to skip the talk about features, and instead talk about benefits, use cases, circumstances, be the power up for your users 👇 etc. And I agree…

I used to comment everything. Now I comment almost nothing, only gotchas, fixes to strange bugs (with links for reference), deprecations… If there's a comment, there's a really strong reason for it.

November was a big month for #ActiveCollab 🚀 ActiveCollab 8 released, after three years of development 📊 New interface for Tasks report, with new filters and grouping options 🧾 Revamped Invoices section Take a look 👇

One of the biggest problems with UI development is about to be solved! Customizable <select> brings allows us to create totally custom dropdowns with HTML and CSS. Accessible, gracefully degrades and requires no JS! 4.5 min video explainer + demo → www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA9W...

As we are wrapping up November recap, I think that it's a good time to reflect a bit on this part of our process. At the end of each month we prepare a post and a video where we describe what we completed in that month.

Guy Singh-Watson "Farmers copy success, in particular success generated by people like them, on soils lile theirs. That's the way to influence a farmer." https://buff.ly/49pG8Pi @ 37:00

Same experiment as with German. Option A is straight request to translate English to Spanish, option B is to translate English to Spanish, given that it was already translated to another in a specific way (additional context). Which one sounds better? A or B?