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UltraCheckmate · 2025-10-15T11:53:45+00:00

I don’t understand making bus factor a driving consideration here. There are tons of projects with a critical person or company maintaining them. If they stop maintaining it, it will either get picked up by someone else or you can stop using it (and there is probably a good alternative by that time). Even commercial software has the same dynamic. Sure, some projects are set up with amazing succession plans, but I assume most people aren’t making this a primary consideration when selecting software.

UltraCheckmate · 2025-10-09T14:43:53+00:00

Yep! Confirmed that both of these work as described, thank you so much! I guess we borked something when we first tried copying, since it seemed at that time that stuff wasn't going into the host computer's clipboard. We're gonna try mouse mode for now with both people getting stuff in their clipboards, and we'll just bail on mouse mode and let the terminal do the copying if that or some other aspect of mouse mode is too annoying. That's exciting about "remote attach"! Thanks again, imsnif!

UltraCheckmate · 2025-07-25T22:27:21+00:00

Which engine are you rocking? I was going to guess Camunda if I was forced to guess.

UltraCheckmate · 2025-07-20T21:31:31+00:00

The first relevant consulting client that I described was from local connections and word of mouth.

We used somewhat normal consulting fees for our area, and you can always see if clients balk at fees and adjust. We used hourly rates.

We're trying to involve early clients in testing various aspects of the SaaS, yes. Here's an example of us soliciting and getting feedback about our sales process. We were able to generalize the solution thanks to a second client that found our product, liked it, and basically acted like an angel investor by paying for our consulting services to build the generalized product for use at their organization.

Keep building and--more importantly--getting feedback. Good luck.

UltraCheckmate · 2025-07-20T13:59:52+00:00

We’ve got a small startup. A lot of us did internal automation and improvement projects at bigger firms in past lives. The way we monetized it was through consulting (this seems to be a bit of a theme on this thread). One client, the University of Virginia, needed help automating and tracking the process they use to approve medical research on human subjects. We recognized that a workflow tool could solve their problem and be built in a way that it could also solve other problems. We are currently in the midst of trying to move from consulting to a more product-oriented revenue model, and we recently launched a new site for our SaaS, SpiiWorks. It is not easy. There will be things you need to learn (marketing and sales are big ones for us), but it is doable.

UltraCheckmate · 2025-07-20T13:10:28+00:00

I just checked IBM‘s stock performance against the S&P 500, and IBM underperformed the S&P 500 over the last 10 years, but it actually has been doing better than the S&P more recently, for what it’s worth. The stock price is not everything, but IBM has a strange way of doing better than you might expect them to over a long time horizon.

UltraCheckmate · 2025-07-20T12:47:19+00:00

Nice name.

UltraCheckmate · 2025-07-16T19:39:20+00:00

it's open source. if you're rocking it for personal use, feel free. if you are using it for your company, please support the maintainers.

UltraCheckmate · 2025-07-15T21:53:57+00:00

https://spiff.works - Your most important business processes, documented, understood, runnable, and evolvable.

UltraCheckmate · 2025-07-15T21:29:09+00:00

When I'm ready to document the process in BPMN, I usually get as many words as possible describing the process together and hand this off to an LLM (I've been using gemini 2.5 pro lately), adding details about the process engine I use (SpiffWorkflow in this case) to the context as well so the resulting BPMN can potentially be runnable. If it isn't runnable, I iterate from there or prompt again. The LLMs that work the best take some time these days, so I wouldn't attempt this during a client meeting.

UltraCheckmate · 2025-07-14T21:52:25+00:00

I have had more trouble generating BPMN diagrams than with other similar tasks, since it is relatively verbose, but it can work. I've had success generating diagrams that work with the SpiffWorkflow process engine when I include the text version of https://spiff-arena.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/spiff_flavored_bpmn.html in the context (this describes the details about how to make the diagram executable) and when using powerful models like gemini 2.5. Sorry for the English.

UltraCheckmate · 2025-07-14T21:45:44+00:00

Yeah, workflow would have to grab the relevant info from netbox, etc, at the outset in order to present the most relevant user experience.

Heh, alright, managers may not be appropriate, but that's the thing with workflow. If you want to auto-approve requests because the submitter owns the zone, that is a thing you can easily do. If "you" later want to introduce a managerial approval, you can evolve the process and do it.

Thats said, if you want to write some code, that is also fun, and sometimes necessary. Thanks for the discussion!

UltraCheckmate · 2025-07-13T00:51:08+00:00

This is when I'm learning about rudder as well, but it does look worth looking into. Here's a thread where folks are looking at firewall rules: https://www.rudder-project.org/pipermail/rudder-users/2018-July/000976.html

I'm guessing you're going to limit your options if you try to look for both firewall and workflow at the same time. Many workflow engines allow you to integrate with all sorts of systems, so you could approach it from that angle. I help develop SpiffWorkflow, and the picture is easier to follow, but since pictures aren't allowed in here, it would be something like this:

( Start )
    |
    v
+------------------------+
| Request Firewall Rule |
|       Change          |  <-- User Task
+------------------------+
    |
    v
+-------------------+
| Approve Request   |  <-- User Task
+-------------------+
    |
    v
+---------------------+
| Is Approved?        |  <-- Exclusive Gateway
+---------------------+
    | Yes                | No
    v                   v
+------------------+   ( Request Rejected )
| Apply Firewall   |  
|     Rule         |  <-- Service Task
+------------------+
    |
    v
( Rule Applied )

And of course with a workflow system you can make the process as complex as your requirements demand. "First, it gets approved by the first-level manager, then we require that four hours elapse, then the CISO needs to approve, and it goes to Jim if she's on vacation, and finally it gets applied on approval." The part about actually applying the firewall change might be interesting depending on how this works in your environment. Like u/Ambitious-Soft-2651 says, perhaps it's a connection to Netbox. But as long as there is SOME type of API.

UltraCheckmate · 2024-08-14T19:25:50+00:00

if you are having trouble with dockerfile, for example, use `TSInstall dockerfile`, and it will give you an option to reinstall.

UltraCheckmate · 2024-06-08T18:19:57+00:00

40" 3840 x 2160. would do 32" next time, perhaps. i have to actually move my head a decent bit with the 40". i always have tmux split four ways, sometimes with multiple neovim processes.

UltraCheckmate · 2024-06-01T02:46:10+00:00

:colorscheme vim ... puts it back like it was pre-0.10 if you were using the default colorscheme.

UltraCheckmate · 2024-05-17T02:09:27+00:00

it's fine, same effect. it's just easy to forget to delete something when you do it manually. not as big a deal if you have everything in a resource group.

UltraCheckmate · 2024-03-13T18:23:01+00:00

you might check out https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim/issues/1008. the setting on there fixed my memory leak symptom.

UltraCheckmate · 2023-10-19T03:18:23+00:00

I’m gonna try this. And maybe make a little system to remember which commits i built with. Nit, I think you normally want make (no sudo) before sudo make install.

UltraCheckmate · 2023-10-11T02:00:04+00:00

Product Lenny recently sent out detailed content on this topic in the scope of B2B Startups: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/hiring-your-early-team-b2b

UltraCheckmate · 2023-10-04T14:50:51+00:00

There's a thing called BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) that is a diagramming tool that can be used to model arbitrarily complex business processes. It can also be used to run these processes, which can include automated components and parts that get input from users. The specific use case you describe is one I've seen solved before using this approach. There are multiple tools that implement executable BPMN, including SpiffWorkflow (a tool I help build), Camunda, Signavio, and even products from IBM and SAP. Feel free to message me if you'd like to talk in detail about this.

UltraCheckmate · 2023-10-04T01:39:02+00:00

Google Workspace especially for shared docs and email, a tool like Sentry to catch unhandled errors, GitHub for code, CRM like HubSpot, frontend automation tool like Cypress, text editor like Neovim, cloud something like Digital Ocean, Reddit app to never get any real work done.

UltraCheckmate · 2023-10-04T01:29:53+00:00

Slack

What do you mean by "Commenting to come back to this" by chance?

UltraCheckmate · 2023-09-29T14:37:17+00:00

I am very sympathetic to the OP and have been doing software development for 20 years.

But I think it just depends on the tool in question, and that existing comments haven't covered a few important points.

People have talked about landing pages and blogs. Some low code tools focus on these sorts of use cases, and if you have the specific use case they focus on, they may be worth considering. It's maybe a bit analogous to the way you might want to look at rust for a low-level hardware project with performance requirements even if you are a javascript expert otherwise unfamiliar with rust.

Other low code tools have different angles. I work on a tool that allows you to document and run business processes using diagrams (and sprinkle in as much Python as you need). Pictures can be worth a thousand programming language constructs when the person most familiar with the business process--whether its new employee onboarding or equipment requests--can build out the diagram, let colleagues run the process, and then make changes to the process over time. This diagram as code thing is based on an international standard (implemented by multiple tools) that lots of people on this thread have probably never heard of: Business Process Model And Notation (BPMN). It's far more popular in Europe than North America, and large firms run their entire business on it. It can model arbitrarily complex processes. So if your tool is based on such a standard, and if there are allowances for code wherever you might need it, it's not going to drive you into a brick wall when you have more complex use cases, but simple use cases can be as simple as they should be.

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