A workplace productivity tip argues that opening chat messages with greetings like 'hi, you around?' before stating the actual request wastes time. Because typing is slower than speaking, making a colleague wait through a greeting exchange before hearing the real question delays responses unnecessarily. The advice: state the question or request immediately in the first message.
nohello.net
· 2026-09-17
A blogger recounts frustrations with Signal, including missing message-edit support until late 2023, unreliable notifications, broken Do Not Disturb call handling, and inconsistent emoji rendering, despite the app's praised encryption and open-source status. The piece uses these gripes to pivot into a broader discussion of why XMPP struggles for adoption compared to alternatives like Matrix, which offers a single documented client implementation versus XMPP's fragmented extension ecosystem.
gultsch.de
· 2026-09-14