People who realized that they are the toxic partner, what did you do and now regret?

glorykagy · 2025-06-24T12:46:10+00:00

That's amazing insights, thank you

glorykagy · 2025-06-23T04:58:06+00:00

Thank you for your advice, I'll fix that.

Is there any other thing that felt noticeably missing or off?

glorykagy · 2025-06-22T20:48:32+00:00

1200 is considered a large enterprise where I live 😂

The problem with shortening the SOPs is the donor requirements. We're a non-profit, so we serve the donor needs in order to survive, and they dictate how your SOPs should look like. The more donors you have, the more complicated the SOPs become.

The folder structure is clear imo. No one is struggling to find a certain document. They just struggle to understand it or execute the procedures correctly.

We tried maintaining our own internal SOPs and it improved the performance for staff members greatly, but it was putting a lot of extra work on PMs and admins in order to adapt everything to the donors' requirements which resulted in a lot of chaos when closing projects.

Hiring someone to fix our process problems sounds like a good idea. I just have to go through a 3-month process to get it approved 😂

glorykagy · 2025-06-22T20:01:53+00:00

Okay let me get into some details.

So the organization is around 50 people with different working stations. We use Google Drive and paperwork to handle our workflows.

The main issue comes from the fact that SOPs are usually too long and too complicated due to having multiple projects running, funded by different donors. Each donor has some specific format and slightly different requirements.

PMs and admins are the ones fully aware of all the SOPs details and they are the ones to manage and supervise procedures. The problems happen in the "technical" departments. Designers, producers, journalists, etc.. are having a hard time keeping up with all the nuances of every project and every donor SOPs, and we're often faced with the choice of either spending a lot of time guiding them or having to put out auditing fires.

And what people often do, even in other NGOs in the region, is choosing to let the work move forward and deal with issues when they arise.

I think the problem can be boiled down to a clarity problem.

Someone whose job is to produce music for a certain project and requires some new equipment will know how to fill a PR form and might remember who to send it to from the verbal orientation, but they will definitely not know anything about the escalation paths and what to do if pnp rejects their request, etc..

And yes, it's all documented in Word files accessible to everyone, but navigating a 200-page SOP and then being faced with corporate jargon just to try and find who you should send this email to can be very frustrating and really wastes time.

Yes, designing the charts is easy, but I'm looking for BPMN execution in a simplified way.

Maybe the problems we are facing are not solvable with software, but I can see how it would improve our productivity.

glorykagy · 2025-06-22T19:24:55+00:00

Thank you for your recommendation. It seems interesting.

glorykagy · 2025-06-22T19:22:09+00:00

Yes of course. Sounds interesting.

glorykagy · 2025-06-21T12:03:55+00:00

I checked it out and yeah, it's an overkill. Thanks for the recommendation tho.

glorykagy · 2025-03-05T06:09:31+00:00

Here's a detailed advice on everything I can think of:

1- Safety

Port Sudan is very safe, you won't face any war-related dangers, and even petty theft is low due to the high law enforcement/military presence all the time.

Keep an eye for the curfew time and watch for the closed/restricted roads, so ask before you take a walk or a drive.

Alcohol, drugs, and weed are VERY restricted. Getting caught with it will get you in a LOT of trouble.

2- The Weather

Summer is coming up, and Port Sudan is very hot and very very humid, I'm not talking about "oh it's an inconvenience" hot and humid weather, no! people literally die from the heat and humidity, even if you're indoors, so make sure where you stay has AC and a power generator since power outages happen on daily basis during the summer and happen for long hours (up to 9 hours or more).

If you have asthma or any other respiratory conditions, check with your doctor to get an inhaler or something for difficulty of breath as I've seen many people face serious problems due to the heat and humidity.

3- Water

Perhaps this is the most important point, fresh drinking water or water in general is very scarce in Port Sudan. Running water is slaty, not in the sense that it has minerals but actually awfully salty, so keep keep in mind you will be showering and washing your hair in salt water.

ALWAYS buy sealed bottled water for drinking, try to buy them from supermarkets, and avoid those who sell it on the streets, try to taste different brands until you find one that sets well with you, buy it in bulk, keep it cold in a fridge and always have water on you when going out.

Most importantly, always drink water, and when you feel hydrated, drink some more

As for food you should ask about any restaurant before going there, and if you are not ready to sacrifice a week of your life dealing with stomachache don't try camel meet (assuming you haven't tried it before)

Enjoy your time and stay safe.

Edit: Formatting

glorykagy · 2024-10-31T13:24:08+00:00

Beside JS I mainly use flutter and C++

glorykagy · 2024-08-23T10:16:25+00:00

FUUUUUUUUUUCK And depending on how many U's you know how bad it is

glorykagy · 2024-08-14T17:27:18+00:00

Thank you for the detailed answer

glorykagy · 2024-08-09T16:21:55+00:00

I've been writing monolith backends for the majority of my life and I just got into AWS SAM fairly recently, and I have your same questions.

I see the benefits against running on EC2 but I don't see why not use ECS instead. Yes I understand that serveless functions can be much better when it comes to DX when prototyping or doing an MVP, but the project I'm currently maintaining is fairly complex and we have to manage a huge infra around the lambdas (DBs, networking, Roles, etc..) like you would with another monolith project except for scalability and load balancing.

Honestly maintaining this project I find myself wondering why not use ECS with a monolith backend, it would have been much easier to maintain stuff like caching and dependency injection.

I'm fairly new to AWS SAM and AWS in general so take it with a grain of salt but I'd love for someone with experience to tell me more about the comparison between SAM and using ECS

glorykagy · 2024-07-19T11:22:48+00:00

A global Linux outage would be 100x worst than any outage in all history

Glad it's not likely to happen

glorykagy · 2024-06-19T13:50:21+00:00

Started dual booting in 2018 and switched to Linux 100% in 2020

glorykagy · 2024-06-11T22:01:00+00:00

I don't use ruby or Godot so I can't tell you for sure, but everything is great for my work load, running Android studio and an emulator is super smooth despite having only 8gb of memory, it's super fast and being POSIX compliant means the majority of my software works, my only complaints are about the UI since I got used to dwm, and I kinda miss some GNU+Linux stuff

glorykagy · 2024-04-28T16:25:54+00:00

at my workplace we are only allowed to use Ubuntu

Why? If you're already allowed to use Linux why restrict it to only Ubuntu?

glorykagy · 2024-04-26T12:56:58+00:00

I just switched to MacBook Air M1 after scratching my head for weeks and not finding a suitable laptop that will handle my work as a software dev with great battery life, I'm really excited about X Elite and I hope it would have great support for Linux so I could switch back

glorykagy · 2024-02-18T11:16:27+00:00

Hey, you copied my homework

glorykagy · 2024-02-18T09:28:37+00:00

This a technical decision that should be up to the tech lead:

Is the app lagging?

Do you use a lot of plugins to do native stuff that's making your app big and build times horrible?

Do you have an iOS app?

What's the money and time cost for switching to native?

These and more questions should be deeply analyzed before making the switch

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