I came to Ghostty for the icon, but stayed because of the experience, the philosophy and your dedication and enthusiasm. Thanks!

Absolutely. Hoping 27 winds all of this back but maybe we’re waiting until 28, or 29… or maybe this is just how it is forever now.

I see these acquisitions as a reset. They spend a huge sum to acquire established, but struggling, products and strip the size of the company to the minimum required to keep it operating. This is very much the Musk model.

At this point they have stopped the cash bleeding and made profit margins healthy again. From there they can more easily rationalise how to take it forward over the next 5-10 years.

That might mean stripping unpopular product features, rebranding, going upmarket, whatever.

It’s a real shame for all the staff, of course, but from a business point of view it’s going to be interesting to see how it plays out.

Founder here. Interested to hear how people think about 'lifetime' SaaS deals. Probably some positive experiences alongside some negative ones?

I love to pay for something and feel like I own it somehow. Lifetime deal feels like that. So I opt for it in most cases.

Ok that’s good to know thanks. With Pagecord it’s already open source so you can always have the code, and you can export content in markdown or HTML any time. I always imagined that would be enough…?

Check out https://ooh.directory or https://blogroll.org

The problem with https://ooh.directory/ is that nobody can tell what gets added and what doesn't. Submissions go through an opaque review process and a lot of good submissions don't make it. If you search for your favorite bloggers there, chances are that they're missing from there.

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https://pagecord.com

To goal is to make you write more. Tonnes of features, including posting by email (my favourite way to blog).

I love blogging and I want more people to go back to writing on their own blog and reduce time on the socials. It seems to be striking a chord with people.

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Are they going to redirect office.com to microsoft365copilotapp.com while they're at it?

I've yet to upgrade from Sequoia and having read this _excellent_ article, I'm going to hold off as long as Apple let me.

I really hope the recent changes at Apple mean this will get completely overhauled and they'll return to their roots as design leaders. It will be such a shame if this mess is allowed to continue

Honestly this is so true. I have a few blogs for various reasons, and the hosted ones are where I post most because it’s so effortless to do. There’s so much less inertia. You can go even further and post by email (I use Pagecord) which removes virtually all barriers to posting.

That said, building your own static site and faffing with all the tech is generally an enjoyable distraction for most techies