This morning I filed my annual income tax return in Estonia, and thought it would be interesting to time the whole process from start to finish
It took 37 seconds
Liebe Freunde, wenn Euch während der Festtage irgendein Verwandter erzählt, dass Kapitaleinkünfte zu gering besteuert würden, zeigt ihm diese Grafik. Ich habe korrektermaßen den Solidaritätszuschlag (Soli) ergänzt, der gleich zweimal anfällt. Die Kapitalgesellschaft muss Soli
For daily product work I now just iterate on the wireframe stage (Excalidraw) and then go straight to code.
I use Figma only for visual details like choosing icons and colors or when working on fundamental look and feel (design system).
Figma is incredibly important. It allows you to think and prototype UI/UX quickly. Coding doesnt enable even 1/5 the speed of figma of iteration on this.
You need to be able to try stuff. Throw things away. See how it looks. You can always tell when someone skipped this step and
slightly contrarian opinion that will probably get no likes:
with all the well-deserved energy around “vibe coding” as a way of designing, i feel like we’re inadvertently promoting the idea that no one spends time in Figma anymore — or even just in a Notion doc or on paper,
When you take bus number 2 in 🇪🇪Tallinn (the one that goes to the airport), it’s often full with Germans.
For some reason, there’s always someone who emits some stress.
Perceived slights (you bumped into me!), anxieties (we’re gonna be late!) etc.
Why can’t Germans chill out?
