ha! I used to work there until 2020. They have almost no meetings because they have all those employee monitoring tools: mouse/keyboard activity tracking, browser URLs tracking, screenshots every X minutes, etc.
I made a fun little game where you have to pick the 3 names most commonly used for Peter Steinberger’s AI assistant as fast as possible. Made in Ruby on Rails.
To celebrate my 1st ever Ruby conference attendance and try to bring some tribute to the community, I made a little game called ♦ The Ruby Triathlon 2025 Challenge ♦
Have fun playing it! (ofc, it's built in Ruby on Rails )
After a long hiatus, I’m back to building my own apps/tools. So being sick and tired of sitting through endless meetings throughout my career, I wanted to illustrate just how much these meetings actually cost companies in terms of time and money.
To do this, I’ve created the Meeting Waste Calculator. A tool that shows the hidden costs of meetings. Simply enter your team size, meeting frequency, and duration to immediately see your numbers.
There are also a couple of easter eggs included in the results page. Have fun!
I think Unsplash was kind of like this until they were bought by Getty Images. Really loved they're way of presenting ads.
On a personal note, I tried getting into ads for one of my personal projects (a map of recycling points for my hometown), but Google declined my application because it doesn't have much content on it — though it's kind of absurd because people use my web app, to find locations on the map, not read content. I ended up not doing ads for now, and keep receiving "buy me a coffee" donations.
In a way it is, but I haven't done anything in the past few months, so it kinda faded. Made $250 from "buy me a coffee" this year, and yeah, I paid taxes on them.
I basically send an invoice for each tip I receive. Talked a lot to my accountant about this, and she said that if I don't invoice the people sending me these tips, I'm doing fraud, and can pay huge fines once I get caught. I think only as an NGO you're allowed to receive tips w/o paying taxes on the amount. I have an LLC, so I have to invoice every income.
It sounds like you're in Europe? They require invoices for everything there.
If you're in the U.S. though...you need to find a new accountant. You don't need to invoice every transaction. It certainly is advisable, for accounting/auditing purposes (much easier to track and verify income), but it's not mandated.
Took a long break for writing, but it feels good to finally publish about the subject of working hours. It wanders through my mind every now and then, and I'm baffled that we've changed so much the way we spend our time ever since the Internet gained traction, and all the electronic devices, yet we still obey to the 8-hour workday unwritten rule. Feels like this century we'll have to adapt the way of working to our modern lives.
