AL Object ID Ninja

Zero-configuration, dead-simple, lightning fast, no-collision object ID assignment for multi-user repositories

  • No collisions, ever: Real-time, conflict-free ID assignment that always gives every developer a guaranteed unique object ID.
  • Lightning-fast: Get your conflict-free object IDs instantly, with IntelliSense integration.
  • Zero-configuration: No setup, no onboarding, no settings — you work exactly like before, and it silently keeps your IDs clean.
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UBI won’t save us, and the nurse will tell you why Learn More

UBI won't save us, and the nurse will tell you why

I have a friend who is a nurse. Not the TV kind, with good lighting and a romance subplot. The real kind. She does twelve-hour shifts, she lifts grown men who cannot lift themselves, she cleans up things you and I would rather not put into words, and she holds the hand of someone who is dying while their family is stuck in traffic. Then she goes home, sleeps badly, and does it again. Nights, weekends, Christmas.

Lately everybody is telling me she is going to be fine. Because of UBI.

The lump of labour fallacy fallacy Learn More

The lump of labour fallacy fallacy

Every time someone says the machines are coming for the jobs, there's a guy in the back of the room who knows the term. Lump of labour fallacy. He's read his economics and he'll explain it to you slowly, the way you explain things to a child. Work isn't a fixed pie, he says. Automate one job and the economy invents three more somewhere you couldn't have predicted. It happened with the loom, it happened with the spreadsheet, it happened with the ATM - banks hired more tellers after the cash machine, not fewer, look it up. So relax. Every century the automation take the jobs, and every century we all somehow still have work.

He's right. He's been right for two hundred years.

That's exactly what worries me.

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