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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 · 27/03/2026

Saw one recently, they said that it is awesome. So your comment is a +1 for me. Now I definitely have to watch 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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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Don't over analyze any publicly stated reasoning for the good old "third theme makes no different (low usage, irrelevant user group etc), so we are dropping it".

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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 · 10/02/2026

This is a great question.

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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 · 23/01/2026

Gimick. Mesecima ne taknem "veliki" foto aparat (R6) sa "velikim" staklom (35mm f1.8, 85mm f1.2, 24-70mm f2.8 itd), kao, telefon je dovoljan. Onda uzmem foto aparat i bukvalno je SVAKA fotografija bolja od one koju telefon napravi.

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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 · 20/01/2026

One of the characteristics of weak local currency is higher export, and lower import competitiveness. Some countries have used it intentionally to bolster up their exports (Japan, China…). Not saying that it's the game here, just that it's a game that is sometimes played.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I did not make up the term - it's been observed and discussed by developers in the past. For modern software it's usually environment and dependencies, but there are also cases where software has bugs that take decades to present themselves (NES Tetris after level 155 for example).

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Software rot is a phenomenon where software starts to misbehave even when nothing in the code changes. It's not always present, but it does affect a lot of software, especially highly interconnected software, which most of the modern software is.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I'm not an economist, but I would reasonably assume that I have $10K hourly rate if my businesses bring me 2M a month in income and value appreciation directly through my activities (approximation based on 200 effective hours a month).

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Not saying that I agree with the direction. It's either intent, or neglect, or potent mix of both, that gives us these interfaces.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Windowing (toolbars, scrollbars…) is fading away to give space to content. General direction is to have it only when needed (scrollbars), explicitly requested (toolbar text), or not at all (visible drag handle for window resizing). Most are now considered accessibility features, off by default.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

That is bad way to set up the system. People who actually care about app icons don't have it set up like that. Default is far from perfect, I would expect far more in decades of development, but not as bad as your second screenshot for sure…

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Simplest form, as it can be added to all accounts (or selectively activated for suspicious login attempts) without user pre-configuring anything. System is exposed if we wait for users to set up 2FA, this is a way for product to take security seriously and provide 2FA to everyone.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

All sorts of ideas, yes. We don't have free plan, so I don't mind tire kicking, as they don't incur much cost. It's the intent why we're keeping a close eye on such accounts. It's either: * low (perfectly fine, not everyone's ready to buy) * malicious (looking for ways to send malicious spam)

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

We added email normalization years ago, did not help a ton. More important is that they actually have to have that Gmail account (can't make it up), and they have to go through Google's confirmation loop (extra steps). This reduced, but did not completely remove spammy Gmail trials.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

We have an email input and a Google button as a way to create a trial. If they enter @gmail.com address in the email input, we force them to use the button. The ones who proceed verify that it's a legit Gmail account. Which list of disposable domains do you use?

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Me and my family bought 5 new VW group cars between 2007. and 2015 (up, Polo, Golf, A5 and A6 allroad). Still own them, still run them, and we passed on newer generation cars. They prioritized all the wrong things - multiple screens, touch for climate and media, capacitive pads. No reason to upgrade

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Don't use the app, use web UI. Ignore For You. Create a list of people that you actually want to engage with and use that as default stream. Post and reply using a specialized tool, like Buffer or Hypefury. Never casually read, intentional only. And finally, don't overthink. It's just a network.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

One of the takeaways from Capital in the XXI Century by Thomas Piketty is that path of a successful entrepreneur is to become a rentier. Don't get a job, become an investor and make your capital work for you. It's a job, especially in the beginning, when transitioning. Food for though.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

There's also Primitive War (2025), which combines dinos and historical war theater (Vietnam War). Based on its reviews and reviews of Iron Sky 2, it looks like a really hard story to pull off well.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

I highly disagree with using artificial satellites to destroy planets and all of its inhabitants. Good news is that they did not ask me for an opinion they made Star Wars. Trouble with modern Hollywood is that they are more focused on being politically correct than telling great stories.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Why vs? A movie where axis forces use dinosaurs in creative ways in their war efforts sounds way more entertaining. 🤔

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Several changes to spreadsheets, in the past 15 years: 1. Move away from files to Cloud documents. Not total, but significant, 2. Multiple people working on the same document, 3. AI assistance. Imagine Microsoft not pioneering or following through on these changes.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Software is a different ballgame. Platforms that we run our software on are a quicksand, long term, and customer demands are always changing. But there are types of products where this does apply, just not in digital realm. One of the reasons why I love agriculture: there's always market for wheat.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Such a black or white worldview is damaging, if strongly held. Some people will think less, but there will be more thinking, in similar way that there's more movement or construction today, with less walking or back-breaking work. Recreational thinking, an idea to explore.

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Ilija Studen @istdn.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

You are in a much better position to observe the industry. My perspective is such that writing code is a waste for vast majority of scenarios. Since writing code sucks in so much economic resources, it's destined to be automated. It's just not yet practical, but we're getting there.

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