Can I ask, how accessible is it? Is the knowledge base accessible to people using a screen reader for instance?

Thanks!

I built a tool to extract the calendar data (mentioned in abother comment, don't want to spam). I'd really appriciate any feedback you have :)

I'd be interested in any alternatives that people rate highly. In particular I have a client who wants forums and live chat in the same solution.

[1] https://www.discourse.org/

I've been shopping around for logging solutions like this for years. I can't find anything that meets our requirements:

We're a small team of devs working on various projects for multiple clients.

We don't have enough person-power to host something like ELK or Greylog. Keeping client projects running is enough DevOps for us.

Each project has very low logging rates, but we'd want to retain logs for a decent amount of time so we could do month-on-month comparisons etc.

For many projects I wouldn't feel comfortable logging to a cloud provider, there's too much possible user data that could get logged.

I'd like it if our team could have a single place where all logs went. Without having to switch accounts per client.

As cheap as possible.

Axiom would be great if the Enterprise license didn't start at $600 per month. We could self-host and the team would only have one tool to learn (and a very pretty one at that).

Our current solution is that each project has a bespoke "log some JSON to some files" solution and we try to pull data out of that when we need to. Many project don't have any logging system properly in place and we just end up tailing the logs when we're reproducing bugs :) Plus we don't have nice graphs or dashboards, or any QOL stuff really.

One of the points was that migrations should always be reversible. I’ve struggled with this in the past when it comes to migrations that change or drop data. How do you write a downgrade script that recalls the previous data?

I’ve given up with downgrades now. I make sure to take a dB backup or snapshot before running an upgrade. I’ve never had to test this solution in a tense situation though...

I kinda suspected this would be the answer really. I'll have to be more proactive about communicating these things. I'm generally on top of other communications.

Setting myself a 4 week advance notice period seems like a good idea.

All this means that I don't tend to schedule my week with my clients in any meaningful way. They'll say what their priorities are and I'll try to work as quickly as I can on those features, but I try to avoid deadlines (where possible).

Recently I went on holiday for a week. It struck me that I had no process for communicating my holiday plans. No structure for communications whilst I was away. No fallback or out-of-hours support. I phoned/emailed my clients and they all said that I was to have a great time, so no big deal this time.

Next time I go on holiday I'd like a clear plan for how to do it. This might not be something that my clients ever see, it might just be a process that I follow. Or it could be a bigger system; perhaps I'll find someone else to triage issues whilst I'm gone? Or something else?

What do you do?

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As with any social network, the hard part is getting lots of people to use it. There's no benefit to me if I have a card but none of my friends do. How are you going to tackle this problem?

I'd really like to use this kind of product at the company I work for. We have a fair amount of people churn, with contractors coming and going. It would be great if my address book could auto-update with their details. Do you have any plans for some kind of company tier, where you could add/connect cards to a company on behalf of the user?

I built myself a solution that means I can add events to a calendar that describe my day. Different calendars for different clients and different event titles for each project.

This worked well for me and now I’m trying to build it out and sell it. If you’re interested it’s here: billabl.co. I’ll warn you though, it’s early days and likely to break (although I’ve been using it for years).

In the list of "When does the right to erasure apply?", I'm not sure which one you would argue if you wanted to have your HN comments deleted.

1. The data is still necessary for the original purpose

2. HN doesn't rely on consent for this data (I don't think?)

3. I think HN are using legitimate interests, so you could try to object to the processing. I think HN could argue that their legitimate interests override the objection?

4+ Don't apply

So the only one that might work would be point 3. IANAL but it is in HN legitimate interests to keep the comment.

I'm not certain, it seems a bit woolly now I've written it down. It might depend on the seriousness of your objection.

Overall though I think it's important to remember that the right isn't absolute, you can't just have all your data deleted whenever you like. That's not the point of the law.

vantage manages the environment for these scripts. Meaning that I can do:

    vantage db migrate

    vantage -e production db migrate

Recently I added bash completion, so I thought I'd post here to see what other people thought.

Let me know :)

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Events get a title that provide the project. They then get more detailed in the description. I also have a Google Apps Script that pulls this information into a spreadsheet so it's easy for me to report on my time.

What I like about this system is that it's pretty universal, fits into my current workflow, and it's flexible. Every platform has a calendar app, I don't have to do anything fancy to get my time tracker up and running on a new device. I'm already using my calendar to tell me what things I'm doing today, now I'm also using it to tell me what I did yesterday. Changing dates, times, and descriptions is easy, you just edit a calendar event, you can even do it on the train home when you realise that you've forgotten to update.

If I find an awesome poem published on a website and I'd like to use it, I have to find the copyright holder. The notice tells me; when (roughly) the poem was written, and who it was written by. I can then find the correct people and hopefully obtain a license.

In 50+ years the notice might tell me that the work is likely to be in the public domain. It won't tell me for sure, but it would be an indicator.

A date range tells me that the poem has been altered over the years. It was first written in X and last altered in Y. You certainly don't want a copyright notice that simply updates to the current year. You're then misleading any person who might be trying to find you. As has been mentioned before, putting an incorrect date would not change your actual copyrights.

I'm currently part of a project (in the UK) looking to simplify the rights processes (focussing on video atm). I've been to several meetings with copyright lawyers and attended some copyright workshops. IANAL though, I just know some.