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The Best ROI in My Office Is a Standing Desk
A year ago I was knocking on doors all day, active without trying. Now I'm heads-down building software, sitting for hours, and my neck started paying the price with a real case of tech neck. Then my mom got me a standing desk and it already feels better. So here's a PSA for every software person: sitting is the new smoking, and a standing desk might be the highest-ROI few hundred bucks you ever spend.
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No, Claude's Watermark Isn't Spying on You
Anthropic reportedly added a "watermark" to Claude's text for EU compliance, and the internet promptly panicked. Here's the plain-English version: it's not hidden characters, tracking pixels, or your name stamped on anything. An AI is fancy autocomplete, and the watermark just nudges its word choices in a pattern you can't see in one sentence but can detect across a 30-page paper. My take? For almost everyone, it's a non-event. Relax.
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Don't Just Talk to Your Users. Watch Them.
Talk to your users. Great advice, I love it. But what people say and what people do aren't always the same. This past week I watched my new hire Chris onboard a client and click through the same three default settings almost everybody changes, and the client got tripped up. Nobody would've filed a bug about it. So I changed the defaults to match the data. Don't just talk to your users. Watch them.
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Product Review: Microsoft Power Automate (It's Trash)
New series: product reviews. First up, Microsoft Power Automate, and it's trash. The logic is brittle, it face-plants on edge cases, the OAuth connections break every few days, the AI features are just marked-up ChatGPT credits, and a two-step file automation somehow needs five. Too technical for beginners, too shallow for pros. Overall: 2.5/10. Here's the full teardown.
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