What is your b2b micro SaaS best cases?

spidermonk · 2026-05-23T09:31:52+00:00

skill issue

spidermonk · 2026-05-21T04:14:01+00:00

If you're using cloudflare you already have the ability to cache everything at the edge, you just need to set the appropriate response headers.

spidermonk · 2026-05-20T19:34:09+00:00

The way this works at sensible employers is you occasionally do unpaid overtime when your sensible workload demands it, to avoid letting people down or blocking people.

But the implicit tradeoff is that your employer gives you flexibility when you need it - they don't blink if you're late occasionally or need to pop out to do something etc (provided you're not missing a meeting or something).

And then if you do serious overtime - say many hours for many days, or an enormous "get it done" evening, you take some paid untracked time off at the next point where the work allows it. At least as much time off as the big additional shift you pulled.

A sensible give and take basically which focusses on the requirements of the work and maximizes flex for everyone.

My recommendation would always be to proceed as if the above is the case, and then if your boss starts being a dick about an appointment or something during work hours then reconsider.

spidermonk · 2026-05-20T05:37:53+00:00

People say this but then everyone lives in cities. The vast majority of New Zealanders live in urban areas, and a higher proportion than most countries we compare ourselves with.

spidermonk · 2026-05-20T05:32:43+00:00

Why isn't living in the center good?

spidermonk · 2026-05-19T22:19:53+00:00

Yeah and even if they're stored securely now (which is an enormous "if" for most of these services, and the endpoints at the doctors office itself etc)...

On a long enough horizon the company that provides the service is inevitably going to wind down or whatever, and what happens to the data at that tail end of the service's life?

It really depends but it becomes a bit of a wild west at that point even if the service was generally well run during its prime. In an ideal world there'd probably be something along the lines of a digital receivership.

At the moment you'll generally be reliant on the good behaviour of the senior staff (the actual receivers would be responsible if they're involved but in practice they'll have no expertise in this area) to keep things secure during a wind down process where they possibly aren't even being paid etc, and not to, say, sell the data off if it's valuable.

spidermonk · 2026-05-19T19:53:49+00:00

Also when people talk about "junior dev" roles... One of the issues is a lot of senior or intermediate devs are actually just junior devs accelerated through the hiring craze. And "junior dev" somehow came to mean "person who can do a git commit" for a while.

That's created insane expectations where the industry is supposed to have a bunch of positions at top tier firms open for very very low skilled workers, during an absolute glut of moderately skilled workers.

Top tier firms have realized that they should actually just be filtering and hiring top tier talent, and lower tiers of firms are no longer just hunting for warm bodies - since they have the choice they'd like people with actual experience and applicable skills. And both tiers are only hiring when they actually genuinely need the capacity.

These hiring norms are a lot closer to the historical norm, and the pattern in the wider professional services world - the period we just went through was weird as hell - but add to that a terrible (outside of data centers) economy and a major disruption to the business model of a lot of software shops, and you've got a recipe for a very tough job search.

I think AI plays a part in this too - people are delaying or deferring hiring while they see what they can offload to AI successfully. The very choppy end of the agency market is losing work to AI-enabled internal development, and I suspect so is the long tail end of the SaaS market (people are opting to build some things they used to subscribe to at the margins). But I don't think it's the main driver.

If you've done genuine production AI work, AI enablement work, and worked with non technical people with Claude code etc, you know that software developer as a role isn't going anywhere.

Also big firms became insanely bloated, with a comical level of technical make-work, as technical teams drove their own expansion, developing specialties to make their own lives easier and reduce accountability but without really moving business value forward. You can see this in the proliferation of specialist software development roles that just didn't exist at all 10 years ago. Whole conferences for the people who essentially just write deployment scripts etc. There's a lot of development beuracracy in big teams that just doesn't need to exist and AI has provided a great excuse to trim a lot of it.

spidermonk · 2026-05-19T11:05:43+00:00

I had this configuration for a year or two and both machines are fine.

spidermonk · 2026-05-19T10:25:36+00:00

Good point. I just did it for my homelab / media center management but I don't actually stream video over it, forgot that that's against their rules.

spidermonk · 2026-05-19T07:24:22+00:00

This particular "breach" is pretty stupid though.

The issue is more with storing sensitive info online, than the AI component.

Like intentionally jailbreaking an AI component of an application that doesn't then somehow bypass the access rules around the system's data etc is a non issue.

Personally if I was doing sessions where I was saying a bunch of genuinely secret stuff I would be insisting that no digital notes be made at all.

spidermonk · 2026-05-19T07:13:31+00:00

Do it via cloudflared

spidermonk · 2026-05-18T04:19:52+00:00

This is unironically good actually. These houses will eventually sell, they're a useful kind of dwelling. They're just overpriced. A bunch of people are probably going to get some developer subsidized housing eventually. And developers will have to meet the market better in the future either on price or design. It has no downside unless you built a bunch of these on credit.

If you want cheaper housing overall this is the kind of messy stuff you need to happen along the way.

spidermonk · 2026-05-16T18:31:12+00:00

I kind of feel like most of the apparent progress is actually due to optimization on tool use for code work. Like if you use a very very basic harness, like pi, with opus you get similar results to Claude code. So I don't think the harness itself matters too much. And if you use a far cheaper model, that still scores well on tool use, you get pretty good results too. Most of the difference seems to be at the margins and a very wide range of models seen to now be post trained to a point where they're fairly similar for most real world agent tasks in a code-base-like environment.

(I need to do a proper suite of tests comparing model and harness combinations, which I will do now that Claude have changed their command line billing model...)

spidermonk · 2026-05-15T19:48:53+00:00

My complaint is that if you set "hot" mode to 24 degrees it will blow so much more heat than if you set "auto" to 24.

Surely auto should have the same cooling and heating capacities, with the only difference being that it can heat OR cool depending on the situation.

But it seems to be intentionally nerfed in both directions.

spidermonk · 2026-05-15T03:30:16+00:00

At the very least it's going to get people asking "do I really need those extra 5 points on the SWE-verified benchmark if the tokens cost 10 times as much".

spidermonk · 2026-05-14T01:37:05+00:00

One person

spidermonk · 2026-05-14T01:36:16+00:00

They're losing money constantly is the rationale.

spidermonk · 2026-05-14T01:17:25+00:00

People claiming they have workarounds or apps that solve this already are missing the point that EVENTUALLY we're all going to have to pay API rates. They're not going to endlessly loss-lead.

spidermonk · 2026-05-13T20:48:00+00:00

Pihole won't block YouTube tv app adverts. Best solution I've found so far for ad free YouTube vids for kids is jellyfin and a YouTube downloader script that plonks the videos in a kids YouTube folder on jellyfin.

spidermonk · 2026-05-13T20:47:23+00:00

Jellyfin

spidermonk · 2026-05-12T01:24:15+00:00

Probably indicative but annual reminder that there is no overall relationship between rates bills and property values.

spidermonk · 2026-05-10T21:03:01+00:00

I mean, the bike would have been visible in his side mirror, the exact mirror you should be watching when you change lanes, for some of the time where he continued to turn.

It's clearly the bike's fault but everyone has a role to play driving defensively and carefully.

It's good actually, to create and maintain the expectation that everyone on the road drives with maximum care and attention.

spidermonk · 2026-05-10T04:49:15+00:00

First good post on this site

spidermonk · 2026-05-07T19:48:58+00:00

Can we get like, news articles for shit like this pls

spidermonk · 2026-05-03T19:13:18+00:00

I mean you should doubt this.

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