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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

MCP is a chance to rethink the interaction. Most APIs are rigid, machines spitting out data. MCP can be made into a conversation. Need to reject a request? Send response that teaches the agent how to correct. x.com/milan_milano...

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

You start a simple task, but end up moving mountains because review unearths related issues. Most of them are not important by any stretch, but you can't leave them now that you know that they exist. Since agents replicate patterns, I comfort myself that cleaning things up is good long term.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Giving Tuna a try. It brings back the Quicksilver memories, from Tiger and Leopard days. As a fresh switcher to Mac, It was a world of wonder for me back then. tunaformac.com

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Tuna

New, modern launcher for macOS.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

New ActiveCollab self-hosted release landed today: v8.0.399 🚀 Tasks have multiple assignees, each with their own estimate, for precise planning and workload management. Plus, an all-new text editor.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Customer asked for a way to remove notes from MCP, as they don't want for third parties (which Cloud models are) to have access to them. We added Restricted MCP Tools 🔐 Now you can disable whole tools or individual features of a tool (like fetching notes in get by ID tool).

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Performance is the evergreen feature. If you ever run out of ideas about how to make a piece of software better, just make it faster.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Another day, another batch of improvements: 🔐 Passkeys let you have your cake and eat it too - secure AND fast sign in ⚙️ Work with multiple assignees, each with their own estimate, with ActiveCollab's MCP server.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Agents let me quickly dig really deep. For rich link cards in the app, we need media card component in design system, and URL unfurling in the backend, with background processing, retries, SSRF hardening, rate limiting… Such detailed spec used to take a whole day, now an hour.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We began rollout of the updated text editor. Cloud only accounts at the moment. Please let us know if you notice anything broken or out of place. New editor means better foundation for new features. What would you like to see added or changed?

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

New MCP tool lands Monday: reorder 🔀 Just tell the agent how you want tasks prioritized (by dependencies, sequence, or any order) and it will arrange them for you. PS: MCP is available for self-hosted accounts in v8.0.333, in case you missed it.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Pro tip: Click on user's workload summary for the day (color-coded number of available hours) to see how ActiveCollab came up with the number - meetings, tasks, estimates, all is there.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 12/02/2026

Walking around with a book in your hand is the ultimate flex. People be like: "damn, where you find time to read".

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

AI is multi-tasking amplifier: "I'm frequently finding myself with work on two or three projects running parallel. I can get so much done, but after just an hour or two my mental energy for the day feels almost entirely depleted." simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/9/a...

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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a …

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Rare FOMO that I like as much as my JOMO's 🧀

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

MCP server development feedback loop: 1. Imagine there's an MCP for the app like XYZ, write me N prompts how a typical user would use it 2. Study my MCP server, can you run the scenarios that you proposed? 3. Fix shortcomings 4. Repeat 🔁

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

ActiveCollab 8 is available to customers with self-hosting licenses 🚀 It brings 100+ new features and improvements (we stopped counting at 100). There is no area of the application that was not touched and improved by our team. Thank you for your continued support. 🙏

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Oldschooling a big project plan.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

"May thy knife chip and shatter" 🔪

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Upgrading firmware on both cameras at once. YOLO

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

ActiveCollab September update: 👥 Team Profiles.Stay on top of team projects, tasks, and availability, ⏲️ Reminders for Notifications. Never lose track of a notification again. youtu.be/yTRnIk0Gmag

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September Recap: Team Profiles and Reminders

Now you can build custom teams in your ActiveCollab workspace, and use notification reminders to make sure everyone stays on top of their work, time, and project goals. 00:00 Intro 00:21 Team…

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Heroes completed. I still miss Tul Duru 🗡️

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

During April and May ActiveCollab team shipped: 📊 All new Time dashboard 🔌 Updated QuickBooks integrations 🏋️ Up to 5x faster Workload 💵 Cost summary report for projects and tasks 🗓️ Improved calendar filtering Read more 👇 activecollab.com/blog/recaps/...

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April and May Recap: Time Dashboard, QuickBooks integration, Workload, Cost Summary Report, and Calendar Event Filtering

Your favorite productivity and collaboration workspace got even better: check out the updates!

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

March was a busy month here at #ActiveCollab. We shipped: 🚀 ActiveCollab 8 launched to most accounts ⏱️ All new Time Report, with new ways to filter, sort and group data 💰 New ways to create invoices 📆 Improved handling of recurring calendar events

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March Recap: ActiveCollab 8 Rollout, Revamped Time Reports, Client Invoices, and Recurring Events in Calendar

From ActiveCollab 8 rollout and improved time reports, to client invoice widgets, and recurring events: March was busy over here!

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

"The IoT industry isn’t focused on making great products—it’s focused on trapping consumers into ecosystems" We built a new, modern family house in 2018. There's not a single smart home device in it. When old tech's better than new, I just pass.

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The Illusion of a Smart Home

I woke up too early this morning to watch India play Australia in the Champions Trophy cricket. I know, I don’t have a life. But while the game was unfolding...

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

During February we worked on 👇 📅 Option to import events form Google Calendar, Outlook etc, and show them on Workload (Early Access soon) 🧾 List estimates and invoices under client's profile 📋 Sort and export Timesheet data, to see trends and if someone missed to track time

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February Recap: External Calendars in ActiveCollab, Client Invoices and Estimates, and Improved Timesheets

Now you can import external calendars in ActiveCollab, see invoices and estimates in clients' profiles, and better manage timesheets!

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Microsoft does it best. They start with "Microsoft is committed to improving your Microsoft 365 subscription", and then continue by saying that they are removing one service (no replacement), and one product (sort of replaced). How…? Never mind…

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Crazy thing about these stats is that I mostly listen to audio books while driving. Alone! That's a lot of alone time behind the wheel.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Now that I read an article that described what Virtual Users are and how they can be used for team member and client onboarding, I'm a bit sad that it came as a smaller part of a big release (ActiveCollab v8). It's such a great feature by itself!

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Onboarding Made Easier with ActiveCollab Virtual Users

Virtual Users are ActiveCollab's signature feature that helps you plan capacity and prepare for team member and client onboarding, free of charge!

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

January is a holiday season for us, yet we managed to ship a lot of great features: 📆 Add meetings to Workload 📊 Keep an eye on project KPI's with Project Progress menu 🧾 Issue EN 16931 complaint invoices (experimental) Read more here 👇

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January Recap: Events in Workload, eInvoicing, and Project Progress Menu

We worked on events in Workload for capacity management, eInvoicing, and Project Progress Menu.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

January 2024: "Year 2024. Is the final stage of the development of version 8, and we are looking to wrap it all up by the end of the year. As that milestone approaches, we would like to get more and more people involved, with your being one of the first to get an invite."

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Trying to watch through the whole video, and I just can't because of idiocy of arguments in face of numbers. 1 in 10 to 1 in 5 people do use Firefox, his own quick poll shows a higher number, and he still doesn't get it. Not everyone cares about stuff he does. So simple, yet so hard to grasp?

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Strangler fig actually works. We employed it to replace our old system with a new one with with minimal downtime and shocks to existing users. Applicability depends on your objectives and circumstances, but it does work in practice.

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bliki: Strangler Fig

Inspired by the strangler figs in Australia, a strangler fig application gradually draws behavior out of its host legacy application

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Been collecting and going through this type of data for over a decade, and this is one thing that I would rather NOT pay per usage. VPS with GrayLog and you are probably solving 95% of your problems with cost that you can manage and predict. When you make money, you can decide what to do next.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

A customer, commenting on ActiveCollab's ability to create invoices in QuickBooks based on time and expenses from projects: "I love that feature now that we switched to QuickBooks, it saves me so much time and it helps the bookkeeper know what’s going on!" 💪

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Need to write an announcement post for a feature that landed in our Early Access Program (a mini dashboard to track project's progress). I think that "Best of Queensrÿche" will work just fine for the project 👌

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

This is coming from the same people who told us that everyone should learn to code not long ago?

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

For every FOMO argument, I can counter with a JOMO argument. It's much better to build on joy, then on fear. It may not be as profitable, but that's a separate discussion.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

We used Slack for many years, but it was always on a free plan. Keeping it on a free plan was actually a feature, not a bug, and not just because of savings on subscription cost (we pay for a lot of software).

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Inbox Greater Than Zero 😞

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Two concepts that provide a lot of leverage in software development: continous delivery, and slicing. First is sign of operational maturity, second that we can reliably spec, develop, and ship complicated software. Simple ideas, hard to put in place.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Saying farewell to the slopes 🏂 Tomorrow back in the (home) office. Our climate changed so much. If you want to experience winter and snow, instead of prolonged fall, you have to go to the mountains. It was not like that before.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

You know the "bugs are fixed, not tracked" principle? It's part of the zero defects philosophy. Instead of tracking bugs, you stop what you are doing and fix them.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

While generalizations can be dangerous, some are fun. When looking from #productivity perspective, I see two distinct groups: grid people and list people.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

In the past couple of days I managed to get a major upcoming new feature unstuck with RRULE, and today got stuck with RRULE on a minor API. Five steps forward, one step back is fine I guess👌

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Always prefer rollback to last known good release, and fixing an issue at your convenience , than fixing a live and broken system with new builds. Yet programmer's optimism always gravitates toward second option.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 06/01/2025

LinkedIn is losing it. They are using AI-generated fake profiles to push ads, disguised as direct messages into the inboxes of everyone... including paying customers like myself who already pay ~$600/year for LinkedIn Premium. What a low. (This is real, from my "inbox")

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

During December #ActiveCollab team shipped: 📅 Show unavailable people, reminders and manage tasks on Calendar's day view 📋 Save and reuse sets of filters in Tasks Report 👥 Improved people archive ⚙️ New calendar settings Read more 👇

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December Recap: Calendar, People Archive, and Task Report Presets

We added new features to Calendar and People Archive, and we implemented Task Report Presets

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