Ilija Studen

I’ve been writing the Do Not Disturb docs and I've already typed 'Disturbed' instead of 'Disturb' like 7 times 🤘 youtu.be/09LTT0xwdfw

MCP is a chance to rethink the interaction. Most APIs are rigid, machines spitting out data. MCP can be made into a conversation. Need to reject a request? Send response that teaches the agent how to correct. x.com/milan_milano...

You start a simple task, but end up moving mountains because review unearths related issues. Most of them are not important by any stretch, but you can't leave them now that you know that they exist. Since agents replicate patterns, I comfort myself that cleaning things up is good long term.

Giving Tuna a try. It brings back the Quicksilver memories, from Tiger and Leopard days. As a fresh switcher to Mac, It was a world of wonder for me back then. tunaformac.com

"MCP moves from a bidirectional stateful protocol to a request/response model."👍

New ActiveCollab self-hosted release landed today: v8.0.399 🚀 Tasks have multiple assignees, each with their own estimate, for precise planning and workload management. Plus, an all-new text editor.

Customer asked for a way to remove notes from MCP, as they don't want for third parties (which Cloud models are) to have access to them. We added Restricted MCP Tools 🔐 Now you can disable whole tools or individual features of a tool (like fetching notes in get by ID tool).

Performance is the evergreen feature. If you ever run out of ideas about how to make a piece of software better, just make it faster.

Another day, another batch of improvements: 🔐 Passkeys let you have your cake and eat it too - secure AND fast sign in ⚙️ Work with multiple assignees, each with their own estimate, with ActiveCollab's MCP server.

Agents let me quickly dig really deep. For rich link cards in the app, we need media card component in design system, and URL unfurling in the backend, with background processing, retries, SSRF hardening, rate limiting… Such detailed spec used to take a whole day, now an hour.

We began rollout of the updated text editor. Cloud only accounts at the moment. Please let us know if you notice anything broken or out of place. New editor means better foundation for new features. What would you like to see added or changed?

New MCP tool lands Monday: reorder 🔀 Just tell the agent how you want tasks prioritized (by dependencies, sequence, or any order) and it will arrange them for you. PS: MCP is available for self-hosted accounts in v8.0.333, in case you missed it.

Pro tip: Click on user's workload summary for the day (color-coded number of available hours) to see how ActiveCollab came up with the number - meetings, tasks, estimates, all is there.

Walking around with a book in your hand is the ultimate flex. People be like: "damn, where you find time to read".

AI is multi-tasking amplifier: "I'm frequently finding myself with work on two or three projects running parallel. I can get so much done, but after just an hour or two my mental energy for the day feels almost entirely depleted." simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/9/a...

Rare FOMO that I like as much as my JOMO's 🧀

"I encourage people to use these services [AI] as much as they can, while they can. We as users are getting a great deal today on a service subsidized by investors" hbr.org/2025/11/ai-c...

MCP server development feedback loop: 1. Imagine there's an MCP for the app like XYZ, write me N prompts how a typical user would use it 2. Study my MCP server, can you run the scenarios that you proposed? 3. Fix shortcomings 4. Repeat 🔁

ActiveCollab 8 is available to customers with self-hosting licenses 🚀 It brings 100+ new features and improvements (we stopped counting at 100). There is no area of the application that was not touched and improved by our team. Thank you for your continued support. 🙏

Oldschooling a big project plan.

"May thy knife chip and shatter" 🔪

Upgrading firmware on both cameras at once. YOLO

ActiveCollab September update: 👥 Team Profiles.Stay on top of team projects, tasks, and availability, ⏲️ Reminders for Notifications. Never lose track of a notification again. youtu.be/yTRnIk0Gmag

Heroes completed. I still miss Tul Duru 🗡️

During April and May ActiveCollab team shipped: 📊 All new Time dashboard 🔌 Updated QuickBooks integrations 🏋️ Up to 5x faster Workload 💵 Cost summary report for projects and tasks 🗓️ Improved calendar filtering Read more 👇 activecollab.com/blog/recaps/...

March was a busy month here at #ActiveCollab. We shipped: 🚀 ActiveCollab 8 launched to most accounts ⏱️ All new Time Report, with new ways to filter, sort and group data 💰 New ways to create invoices 📆 Improved handling of recurring calendar events

"The IoT industry isn’t focused on making great products—it’s focused on trapping consumers into ecosystems" We built a new, modern family house in 2018. There's not a single smart home device in it. When old tech's better than new, I just pass.

During February we worked on 👇 📅 Option to import events form Google Calendar, Outlook etc, and show them on Workload (Early Access soon) 🧾 List estimates and invoices under client's profile 📋 Sort and export Timesheet data, to see trends and if someone missed to track time

Microsoft does it best. They start with "Microsoft is committed to improving your Microsoft 365 subscription", and then continue by saying that they are removing one service (no replacement), and one product (sort of replaced). How…? Never mind…

Crazy thing about these stats is that I mostly listen to audio books while driving. Alone! That's a lot of alone time behind the wheel.

Now that I read an article that described what Virtual Users are and how they can be used for team member and client onboarding, I'm a bit sad that it came as a smaller part of a big release (ActiveCollab v8). It's such a great feature by itself!

January is a holiday season for us, yet we managed to ship a lot of great features: 📆 Add meetings to Workload 📊 Keep an eye on project KPI's with Project Progress menu 🧾 Issue EN 16931 complaint invoices (experimental) Read more here 👇

Trying to watch through the whole video, and I just can't because of idiocy of arguments in face of numbers. 1 in 10 to 1 in 5 people do use Firefox, his own quick poll shows a higher number, and he still doesn't get it. Not everyone cares about stuff he does. So simple, yet so hard to grasp?

Strangler fig actually works. We employed it to replace our old system with a new one with with minimal downtime and shocks to existing users. Applicability depends on your objectives and circumstances, but it does work in practice.

Been collecting and going through this type of data for over a decade, and this is one thing that I would rather NOT pay per usage. VPS with GrayLog and you are probably solving 95% of your problems with cost that you can manage and predict. When you make money, you can decide what to do next.

A customer, commenting on ActiveCollab's ability to create invoices in QuickBooks based on time and expenses from projects: "I love that feature now that we switched to QuickBooks, it saves me so much time and it helps the bookkeeper know what’s going on!" 💪

Need to write an announcement post for a feature that landed in our Early Access Program (a mini dashboard to track project's progress). I think that "Best of Queensrÿche" will work just fine for the project 👌

This is coming from the same people who told us that everyone should learn to code not long ago?

For every FOMO argument, I can counter with a JOMO argument. It's much better to build on joy, then on fear. It may not be as profitable, but that's a separate discussion.

Inbox Greater Than Zero 😞

Two concepts that provide a lot of leverage in software development: continous delivery, and slicing. First is sign of operational maturity, second that we can reliably spec, develop, and ship complicated software. Simple ideas, hard to put in place.

Saying farewell to the slopes 🏂 Tomorrow back in the (home) office. Our climate changed so much. If you want to experience winter and snow, instead of prolonged fall, you have to go to the mountains. It was not like that before.