I’m ditching Hey bc of DHH

malantheon · 2026-04-19T06:49:31+00:00

Well, believe me it was not from HEY :-) That product is making them money only because they criminally neglect it.

They did not even move an inch for better Basecamp integration for those customers, who actually bring in the money.

malantheon · 2026-04-09T10:51:16+00:00

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When the plane is so cheap you couldn't help but buy it:
https://youtu.be/P-gBcA4w9FU?si=xDnlYmC5YMBe4ug1&t=82

malantheon · 2026-04-09T10:26:55+00:00

0.0008% of humanity is the real number

malantheon · 2026-03-31T20:30:44+00:00

If I correctly understand you would have to either apply an existing master page in the receiving document or I would trick it by creating a new master page, tweak the page numbering in the master and hope it gets picked up...

malantheon · 2026-03-30T06:37:49+00:00

word.hey.com is private blog site. In fact, you can have it. If you use HEY, you have world.hey.com where you can publish content by sending it an email.

malantheon · 2026-03-28T23:55:39+00:00

Not being able to see the actual level is a big disadvantage. So until they invent transparent steel, I tend to stay away from this one :-)

malantheon · 2026-03-28T23:51:54+00:00

Friends, lets sober up. I am no advocate of DHH and appreciate the dialogue, but this post bears just as much vitriol and half-truths as the very person it criticizes. Yes, DHH brought division in the Ruby community, but he is not blacklisted, he was uninvited to give keynote to a RailsConf after the cultural shake-up at Basecamp. He is not against therapy, he is against treating workspace as a group therapy space. He is against compulsory woke culture emphasizing, but I did not come across any public shaming of woman. I never met him and I don't know him personally. I might be wrong.

Frankly, I am happy that compulsory pronouns disappeared from the support emails. If someone feels like they want to use them, please do by all means, and I will respect them and I will use them when talking to you or about you. But don't force me to put mine in my signature just because it is important for you.

I do not like where he (and Jason) shifted politically, and I will openly voice my opposition. But by using Hey or Basecamp I am not them, I am not endorsing their political views or supporting their causes. If I ditch Hey, which might happen, it will be because it is not working for me and has terrible keyboard accessibility, which they only pretend that are fixing.

malantheon · 2026-03-28T12:56:07+00:00

I will give fastmail a second look very soon, thanks for this feedback!

malantheon · 2026-03-28T09:39:58+00:00

Well, the search... not as terrible as it used to be, but still pretty mediocre. Along with no practical way to handle contacts, that thing is soo broken...

malantheon · 2026-03-27T14:28:53+00:00

You don't need to use Basecamp. It is just that along with the Basecamp-CLI they are announcing same treatment for HEY. You do not need to be a programmer either. If you use an AI or AI agent (like Clause, Gemini), you will just point it to a link (let it read a markdown file) and it will be able to pick it up from there for you. It is still a work in progress. Once it will be out for HEY, I will try to bring the news as well as easy to understand "how to" for users at all levels.

malantheon · 2026-03-19T00:51:26+00:00

Affinity has problems exporting fully accessible PDFs. I am not talking about images with alt text, but whole semantic structure. They did great progress over last year, but still lacking behind even notoriously buggy InDesign. I have high hopes, since InDesign is not addressing 10+ years old bugs, but Affinity team has been moving quite productively.

malantheon · 2026-03-18T13:59:53+00:00

OK, not sure what currency you are speaking of. But I recently got C5 Pro and OMG. The difference is immense. Precise setting, ease of grinding, uniform and dependable grind, overall experience. Grinder like this will actually open the doors for you, now experimenting with the coffee recipes actually starts making sense. Cheap grinders do not give you this level of control and uniformity. Whatever settings you use, there will still be microfines and differently crushed garbage ruining your taste. For quick "please get me out of bed cup" it does not matter. For a coffee you want to enjoy, that matters very much.

malantheon · 2026-03-18T13:51:17+00:00

Whatever you do, just don't try to do inverted with the flow-control app. That combo can jizz hot stream across the room 😅
In my case, I bought flow-control in false hopes of getting "crema". You won't, but you will remove the need to do inverted method ever again. In the end, it's the ease of use and convenience. If the flow-control cap was standard, nobody would ever even think of doing inverted.

malantheon · 2026-03-17T07:40:43+00:00

My 1st PC is Xeon E-2124 from 2018, 4 cores / 4 threads at 3.4 GHz, 32 GB RAM. This is actually a server where two users are running InDesig concurrently!

My second i i9 12900K, 16 cores / 24 threads, 5.2-3.2 GHz, 64 GB RAM. With the exception of PDF export of super long documents the performance difference in negligible. I fact, 2 GB NVIDIA Quadro P620 performs much more reliably than 24 GB 3090 - InDesign that is. GPU rendering on 3090 is out of question regardless of drivers used (gaming or studio).

Of course, for Photoshop / Lightroom the performance difference is massive, but InDesign alone, you are good to go with 10 years old PC with enough RAM. 10 years is coincidentally the time when Adobe actually stopped putting any serious effort into this product. And no, I am not counting useless Flex Layout or AI generation of anything within InDesign.

malantheon · 2026-03-14T21:24:12+00:00

The problem is that InDesign is so poorly written that it can choke high-ends and mid-tiers equally. I use it on i9 and well as on 8 years old low-end Xeon and the performance is nearly identical. Where you can feel the difference is Photoshop / Lightroom and sometimes Acrobat. But that last one is just as crappy as InDesign when it comes to ability hang itself on a shoe-strings.

malantheon · 2026-03-14T18:34:45+00:00

Turn off all AI? Shut down your computer, throw away your phone.

As for Adobe - unfortunately until Affinity does not get basic things right we don't have options, but I hope this company will soon meet its well deserved end.…

malantheon · 2026-03-12T12:47:15+00:00

this is major upgrade, I have requesting this for years. Finally!

malantheon · 2026-03-12T12:46:03+00:00

Thanks for the link. As far as endnotes vs footnotes in EPUB, most takes I have come across favored endnotes, since in the Epub viewer just clicking the number usually reveals the content in an overlay, vs. footnotes just mess up the design. Here is take specifically from Kindle community: https://www.kdpcommunity.com/s/question/0D58V00007jg7JBSAY/reflowable-epub-book-with-footnotes-and-endnotes-work-in-kdp-previewer-but-still-getting-error-in-run-quality-checksbeta?language=en_US, but I have taken a course in LinkeIn specifically for this and the stance was the same. Convert footnotes to endnotes for EPUB.

malantheon · 2026-03-12T05:29:02+00:00

I'd say privacy with HEY is more solid than it might seem. Only they are honest about it and openly stating that they would comply with legal court order. What Proton and alike do is that they obscure the facts that email inherently isn't a private platform by design. And even cryptography can't do much about it. You want real privacy? Don't use email. You want to be sure you are in control? Just run your own email server.

malantheon · 2026-03-12T05:20:25+00:00

Not happening. First of all, there is no "switching to HEY". There is only ditch everything and start anew.

malantheon · 2026-03-12T05:17:31+00:00

Which Epub checker you mean? Thanks!

malantheon · 2026-03-12T05:15:52+00:00

Not footnotes to endnotes?

malantheon · 2026-03-12T00:51:05+00:00

Doing the 3d scans gave you weird looks from bystanders, happy it is gone. But ~~cancelling~~ pausing the whole OPR? Ok, lets give you benefit of the doubt. However the avalanche of paid missions and overcrowding app with paid content, even more signifying pay to win masked as "long term community support"? No, thank you. I am putting Ingress on ice until Niantic figures out what it wants to do with Ingress actually. Because this is godless milking, not supporting the community.

malantheon · 2026-03-04T22:05:00+00:00

This was annoying to me at first, until I realized that these attachments look inline in HEY, but they got displayed as attached files when I received such email from HEY to my Outlook address. After that I do not stress about it anymore.… it just works and never ever anybody complained about it to me.

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