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Ties together the latest cool WordPress features such as WordPress AI Client and the Abilities API into a fun, Clippy-style (but cuter and less annoying) chatbot experience. Wapuub…

Prompted Claude Code to flex its abilities by creating a "demoscene" style intro and to make sure it was braggy in fitting with the culture of the scene.

Hi Bill, I had a brief exchange with you about the Windows role a couple of months ago and you encouraged me to apply and mentioned you would flag it with the DRI - but I got a rej…

Hi Bill, I've seen your Senior SWE, Windows Desktop App position listed for quite a while, given it seems you're having a hard time filling it would you be willing to loosen the "c…

Please point out where Tumblr’s TOS is “weirdly transphobic”. Users who post pornography are banned regardless of gender identity. Matt’s sabbatical from Automattic was already und…

I really like GitLab as a company, just such a shame they insist on candidates having years of Rails experience, quite jarring coming from a company that is so welcoming in every o…

You are if you can do it in your pyjamas.

I applied for the Senior C# Developer role, unfortunately it didn't proceed as my C# experience is largely on the web side rather than the desktop side. I just want to say I felt v…

This isn't working on IE11, just so you know.

My first thought on reading the name was perhaps this was a business whose competitive advantage was hiring convicts and other people who are disadavantaged in the job market - I'm…

Here in NZ they are also the go-to for swallowing issues (they are called SLTs here - speech-language therapists). Our 10 month old daughter is fed 50/50 via bottle and nasogastric…

The idea of them is they pay regular people to pick them up at night, charge them, and drop them off in the morning - and they can use this process to direct the scooters each day …

I'm surprised they haven't started adding bitterant to the oil, is there a reason that wouldn't work in this case?

They're a Microsoft shop so it was C#, SQL Server, RabbitMQ etc running on AWS. What I liked the most about the pipeline: - Speed - we spent a lot of time (as the post says) optimi…

Neat to see an article from Pete on here - I worked with him at Pushpay, he's brilliant. The CI/CD pipeline the SREs built there was a joy to work with (and that's quite a complime…

Thanks, unfortunately I can't take too much of the credit personally as I've only been involved in the last few months of a multi-year project. Might be Brett that you know?

Yes, this is also true :)

Yeah, only for receiving for now as far as I'm aware. As far as the reason it's restricted to certain types, I'm not sure - I'm contracting at a subcontractor of SWIFT so we're dow…

Ha, that's interesting - validation and normalisation is the responsibility of the banks so would depend on whether the bank of the person doing the lookup accepts it as a valid em…

Yeah, the basic idea of it is faster payments + the ability to transfer to an email address/phone number/ABN. The value is in it being supported by all the various banks and being …

Also no filtering, you can just chuck raw HTML in there

I just checked and found that I did receive coins way back then, haven't dealt with cryptocurrency but did some research and this is the process I went through (can't guarantee it'…

I really like this - is the price being hidden behind the "Buy License" button a deliberate design decision? I feel the price is low enough that having it shown upfront would encou…