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The article pretty much sums up why I've been a bigger fan of OData than GraphQL, especially in the business cases. OData will still let you get all those same wins that GraphQL do…

Does that setup work ok outside in windy environments? A lot of the 'active' audio systems I've found really focus on the wind noise while hearing aids will try to filter that out

I enjoy the cat-and-mouse! I've been writing the Teams plugin for Pidgin for the past few years and its great to be able to give users the kind of features or privacy options that …

The Pidgin plugin for WhatsApp uses very little ram, if people are looking for low-ram alternatives. Although doesn't support calling. (disclaimer, I help out a little with that pl…

Ah yup eMMC https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_tab_active2-8897.php

We had that thought too. I'll have to try dig out what the tablets were to find out exactly what type - this would have been 3 or 4 years ago now. We sort of ruled that out because…

One of the biggest contributors I've had in the past for SQLite blocking was disk fragmentation. We had some old Android tablets using our app 8 hours a day for 3-4 years. They'd c…

Could you underflow the signed value until it was so negative it was > $5?

Can confirm, as a Teams and Skype protocol reverse engineerer for Pidgin, that most of the Teams protocol including text messages started as Skype (not the decentralised one) and h…

For a multi-page app, one of the important uses of serviceworkers is pre-loading and caching resources that aren't on the first page. eg you might have a background image that's on…

Maybe in reference to his political party which failed to gain any seats in parliament? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Party_(New_Zealand)

I didn't think NZ was part of that treaty in 2012 when this all went down? https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/treaties/parties/remarks/NZ/... says it wasn't until 6 years later that i…

If their complaint is that there's no lightweight API or cli app that provides this info, why not make one?

I'll get there one day ;( The frontend/backend split of Pidgin/libpurple makes this tricky, and we still don't have voice and video in a Windows release (my main dev OS these days)…

Yay! Thanks for the shout-out <3

Ooh we had a one of those! They organised an in-person demo at our office after they filled in the online forms for their "multi-million dollar drinks distribution company", right …

Have you tried using act for that? https://github.com/nektos/act Has saved me a bunch of CI debug pain.

Works for me! Although I'm the plugin's developer, so I may be a little biased :D