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15 Months, 20k Visitors, and 0 Product-Market Fit
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15 Months, 20k Visitors, and 0 Product-Market Fit

A 15-month retrospective on building a remote pair programming tool, technical and growth hurdles, future plans and unknowns

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Iason P. ·
MacBooks, Apple Neural Engine, and overheating 🔥
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MacBooks, Apple Neural Engine, and overheating 🔥

Newer MacBooks can heat up fast when you turn the camera on. Here is how I measured it second-by-second with macmon, InfluxDB, and Grafana, and what Apple Neural Engine (ANE) had to do with it.

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Costa Alexoglou ·
Year in Review 2025
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Year in Review 2025

What happened in 2025 for Hopp

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Iason P. ·
How to Start a Rust App on Login in macOS
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How to Start a Rust App on Login in macOS

A deep dive into the challenges of starting Rust apps on login in macOS, comparing Tauri's autostart plugin with a native approach using smappservice-rs.

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Iason P. ·
Remote Pair Programming: VS Code, JetBrains, Zed (2026)
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Remote Pair Programming: VS Code, JetBrains, Zed (2026)

Compare VS Code Live Share, JetBrains Code With Me, Zed, and CodeTogether for remote pair programming, including support status and limitations.

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Iason P. ·
Tuple alternative: Hopp vs Tuple for pair programming
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Tuple alternative: Hopp vs Tuple for pair programming

Compare Hopp and Tuple for remote pair programming: $15 vs $30 per paid user each month, supported platforms, open source, and self-hosting.

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Costa Alexoglou ·
We are starting Hopp
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We are starting Hopp

We are starting Hopp, a new way to pair program remotely.

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Costa Alexoglou ·