Most likely they're happy to offload version control to add-ins. There are a few, but most of them are way out of budget for small businesses or small IT departments. Which means version control usually doesn't happen.

This has been such a problem for me with clients that I started a side project[1] to try to help fill the gap. If anything it's shown me that the problem is more widespread than I originally thought.

[0] https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2016/11/21/source...

[1] https://www.versionsql.com/

It's something that seemed small and simple to implement, but has filled a not-insignificant portion of nights and weekends for over six years now. Then covid came around and dried up most of my consulting income, so I figured why not really prioritize it and see how far it can go? Still small, but growing nicely now.

Also reluctantly abandoned the flawed "build it and they will come" mentality and started splitting time evenly between development and marketing. This has probably contributed more to the project's recent growth than several thousand hours of dev time. Take heed, o ye ambitious developer-founders! :-) Recommended resources: Product-Led Growth, Developer Marketing Does Not Exist, 80/20 Sales and Marketing, BusinessOfSoftware.org talk videos, Microconf talk videos (on YouTube).

I have 18L of Spirulina, which appears to be having some effect, though not anywhere near a complete offset. Though, my setup is quite sub-optimal, and I've seen articles that suggest Chlorella is a couple times more efficient at biofixation than Spirulina. Continuing to tinker :)

However, n=1. The timing might have been coincidental.

Answers were one-click response buttons: Strongly Agree, Agree, Neither Agree nor Disagree, Disagree, Strongly Disagree (top to bottom, in that order).

The first time I clicked "Strongly Disagree", a few questions in, the next question had the order of the answers reversed so that Strongly Agree was on bottom. Submitted an opposite sentiment before realizing what happened.

Strikes me as manipulative, like the survey really isn't so much for discovering my opinion as it is for collecting favorable ones. I wonder who will get the results, and to what end?

Released as a partial report last year; a quick search didn't find if it had been completed yet or not.

Other relevant links I've collected, hoping to do this someday:

- Writing like Engadget [2]

- Story Generator [3]

- MANOWAR Lyrics Generator [4]

- Song lyrics generator [5]

- How Neural Storyteller Works [6]

- A Japanese AI Almost Won a Literary Prize [7]

[1] https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2017

[2] https://www.engadget.com/2015/12/02/neural-network-journalis...

[3] http://www.seventhsanctum.com/generate.php?Genname=storygen

[4] https://dmatoso.com/manowar-lyrics-generator/

[5] https://www.song-lyrics-generator.org.uk/

[6] https://web.archive.org/web/20170602194354/https://www.somat...

[7] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wnxnjn/a-japanese...

Everything online tells me the display lag is unacceptable, but I haven't noticed it personally even when FPS gaming. Maybe it's the conditioning from gaming on an underpowered PC growing up :)

Or I could just curate my playlists more carefully.

Everything else is either too low information density (this is why I get the weather from an app, not The Weather Channel) or more efficiently handled manually (music control, search queries) in most situations

Priorities in its design and why I prefer to use it: It lives where I work, in SSMS. It's as close to zero-friction as possible, so I'm not getting slowed down or sitting around waiting on it when I could be working. It commits SQL code to a subfolder right alongside the application code in Git/SVN.

Cons: Skips some of the more complex features of other apps in the space, like building migration scripts for deployment or rollback of changes. Also, the add-in is maybe a bit too zero-friction -- it's nice that it doesn't get in my way, but that makes it easy to neglect committing code altogether. Have a couple rough ideas about how to solve that one (suggestions welcome!)

[0] https://www.versionsql.com/

Or dig into the JS and figure out how to execute the send manually?

[0] https://www.languagetool.org/

Favorites:

- FTL

- Crypt of the Necrodancer

- Shatter

- Skyrim

- Deus Ex (all)

- Frozen Synapse

- Mirror's Edge

- Anno (all)

- Civilization (esp. Beyond Earth)

- Transistor and Bastion (skipping vocal tracks)

- Ori, Journey, Flower

Also House, Dubstep, etc., though it's hard to find mixes without vocal tracks.