Ive been skating the Intertek model, I've got to say these are my favorite FP shoes yet. I was skating the decenzo dgs3 shoes which are great but I'm glad FP finally released more shoes. The flick is great, the gel material on the uppers is wearing down slower than the actual rubber outsole which is crazy and it is true that the laces don't rip. I recommend everyone try these.
We keep talking about AI in terms of creative work or coding but the use case that has actually changed my day-to-day life is way more boring: dealing with companies. Billing errors, dispute letters, refund requests. The stuff that used to eat an hour of my afternoon now takes minutes. I didn't expect this to be the killer app but here we are.
We mapped our delivery process and counted 7 distinct handoff points between a merged PR and something live in production. Those 7 are: QA sign-off, release branch cut, staging deploy, stakeholder review, change approval, prod deploy and smoke test. Each one owned by a different person or function.
The average time a change spends waiting at a handoff was longer than the time it spent in active work in any of the stages. The code is done in 2 days, production in 11 days.
We've cut a few of the obvious ones but keep hitting resistance in the approval stages, mostly compliance and risk concerns that while legitimate feel disproportionate to the actual risk level.
How to compress the approval layer without messing up the compliance coverage behind it?
whenever I come across smaller or niche sites like 7oh, I always hesitate a bit before ordering
it’s not that anything looks obviously wrong, it’s just that with less known platforms, it’s harder to find real user feedback compared to bigger brands
I usually check things like site structure, product info, and whether they seem transparent, but even then it’s not always clear
especially when the product itself is kind of niche, there aren’t tons of reviews floating around
so I’m curious how others approach this
do you just take a small risk with a first order, or is there something specific you look for before trusting a site like this?