Max Clark
@maxclark
I hate IT sales & marketing lies. We help you beat the IT sales machine. Find, buy and optimize the right tech without vendor noise, lock-in, or regret.
The tragedy that has struck Texas is incomprehensible As Sharon and I have been waiting for news from friends we’ve been praying for miracles - I wish I could say they’ve happened We are so heartbroken - the absence will always be felt We love you 💔
3rd party JS will break and nuke your site perforce The best thing you can do is have RUM in place and make sure you can easily turn off individual tags Early 00’s companies were pushing Apache Modules as the integration The CMO fell in love with a company promising real time…
It's sad how a lot of sites sprinkle analytics + tracking throughout their app but these scripts absolutely nuke frontend performance Looking at a site right now and Microsoft Clarity is burning ~30% CPU per page load, with further huge bursts from any user action 🫠
The more we learn the less we know The JWST continues to produce observations that are out of sync with our models of the universe Incredibly exciting time for science k-state.edu/news/articles/…
Do real people actually use the term “shelfware”? Have you ever heard it in conversation? Asking for a friend 🤪
Something that holds me back from migrating to @heyhey is mailing lists I can’t figure out a way to auto allow email from the list, and having to screen each list sender just sucks How do people deal with this? What am I doing wrong?
What’s next for Tea App? If you’ve never been part of a security incident this is a snapshot of what the next six (6) months looks like for them. Part of it assumes that they have a cyber insurance policy (who knows). At the end I’ll share how they could have avoided all of…
Really interested in what @usepylon is doing around Slack and Teams integrations If you’ve migrated from another ticketing system I’d love to hear your thoughts on what’s working and what isn’t
Was about to install an unroll.me competitor (privacy reasons) Not I’m just waiting for Gmail’s native subscription manager to hit her account If you’re a feature and not the product just understand the ground can disappear at any moment
Oh this is so bad if true
TLDR the Tea app stores everyone's photo and ID enuncrypted in a public firebase storage bucket. Hahahahahah. Was this vibe coded?
The longer it takes to get pricing from a salesperson Is directly inverse to the length of time before they’ll ask for updates on when the contract is being signed As the end of quarter approaches the time is halved
I’m the kinda nerd that recognizes the equipment by the captive portal
eDiscovery on AI tools is gonna be wild
Listen carefully to what Sam Altman says here before you use ChatGPT… “If you go talk to ChatGPT about your most sensitive stuff and then there's a lawsuit, we could be required to produce that … It makes sense to … really want the privacy clarity before you use it a lot.”
10 years after the Apple Watch launched Google has finally shipped Calendar support
If you were designing a social media network today would you limit the amount of connections/friends a person could have? Ex: Nobody is friends with >1k people, that’s a distribution platform not a social network.
Surge pricing on female drivers is gonna be wild
Uber, $UBER, will let women drivers and riders request to avoid being paired with men starting next month, per CNBC
Today’s Synthetic CDO???
Secondaries are quietly doing more damage to the tech ecosystem than most people realize. If you thought Windsurf would cause issues (which it won’t), this will cause way more. We’re in the middle of a wave of SPVs, secondaries, and backdoor deals that are fundamentally…