Sad that it's not a WYSIWYG. The old Visual Basic will forever be the benchmark for how easy it is to make a GUI. If it's not that easy I don't wanna hear about it.
Wanted to unsubscribe but they require you to login to do that. Can't recover account due to some recovery information supposedly being wrong? So I just mark them as spam. A bit insufferable but nothing else to be done about it.
STIGs are just references for implementations. The actual security standards are CMMC, made up of various DFARs, and FedRAMP for the cloud. Like you say, it does take on average 6-12 months to certify a new vendor.
The big problem is it's all self-attestation. I've worked for one of these vendors, and it was a lot of jackass business people who didn't actually care if anything was secure, they just wanted to "pass" their certification as quickly as possible and cut as many corners as they could. Didn't want to spend money on a contractor who knew how to actually pass these certifications, so instead they'd just lean on the IT dude and demand he complete things he didn't know anything about on impossible timeframes, asking him to do things which they might be legally liable for, and basically trying to avoid doing any actual security work if at all possible. Lowers cost, gets their project going faster which helps them land more contracts and get a promotion.
It's a strange thing to watch someone admit their own ignorance, and then immediately disregard it, in order to make a case for something that they - by their own admission - can't possibly understand. It's a doublethink poem. I don't think; therefore, I am.
Perhaps the disconnect is his belief that "what I do know is technology and UI/UX." Perhaps he really believes he knows how to build technology like this. But his complaints are those of a person who clearly only thinks of technology, as technology. Not as the stupid redneck in Arkansas who needs to use a shitty mobile connection in order to find out if diapers are on sale yet; but as the lofty technologist, surveying the digital landscape from his 100-gigabit 16-cpu latest-generation pocket powerhouse, flicking through content faster than it can render, concluding that the technological marvel of dreary old-world tech to be wanting.
The poor fools! They don't understand what I, a technology UI/UX expert, want in a mobile app! How foolish that they have not implemented what their competition has. It can only be incompetence. Not to worry though. I, the technological wunderkind, will write a blog post. I will educate them on their shortcomings, and inform them of the correct path to profitability. It's my duty to help these poor sods realize the truth: that they are not yet advanced enough. But with my help, they'll get there.
You wrote three long paragraphs without mentioning a single point where the big post was wrong or an explanation for one of the shortcomings. Impressive!
For what it's worth, this website is geared more towards software developers than writers. That's probably fine? But your market is going to be much smaller than if you focused on writers and regular people. It wouldn't take a lot to make this better for regular people, but you would need to get a non-software-developer to sit down and tell you all the stuff you should remove, and product copy to rewrite.
Keen observation! We needed to start somewhere with our messaging, and that place is basically to reach out to people in my own position. Given that familiarity, we could build a message and test it out in this niche.
In some regards I'd love for that niche to be large enough to provide a good revenue stream for our team. The features we'd build would be more obvious to us, and they could be designed for a more technically-skilled audience.
That seems unlikely, though. And while building for the technical folks is enticing, I also would love a world where more people from various backgrounds are blogging. I would love to be able to go read 20 years of blog posts from my parents, or to read blog posts that my children write as they enter adulthood.
We've already done some user testing with non-technical folks and there are, of course, glaring challenges. Building for regular people who'd like to write will be hard work, but we have a team with lots of experience in this area!
As someone who got very good at DDR at a young age, and is now older, it's clear that if you do any exercise which challenges your balance when you're young, your balance will be better when you're old. I haven't practiced slackline or DDR in decades and I don't really exercise now, but I can still walk across a log found during a hike like it's nothing. Strength may come and go, but balance is clearly some kind of long-term muscle memory.
I'm "getting on a bit" as they say. I was pretty active as a kid and am still a reasonably active 42 yr old now but I've noticed that when I go a few weeks without regular activity and the strengh diminishes, the balance goes with it.
I can totally understand how with ankles or core a bit weaker it would be easy to lose balance. Dunno how regular your hikes are but they are probably keeping you strong where you need to be, especially if there are hills involved.
https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/unitedhealth-antitrust-i...
https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/united-we-scam/