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This is true for iTunes and Google Play too, I've had albums disappear from my Library with no explanation (I suspect some licensing change or label shuffle behind the scenes). I'v…

I recall someone (I think on HN) state that they created landing pages like you describe _before_ creating a product to see if the idea has enough interest to start on the project …

> I tend to listen to music with no lyrics or with lyrics in languages I don't understand because it lets me program without becoming distracted. This! When I started programming f…

I can't help but be reminded about this open source software license comic: https://burntsushi.net/stuff/wtfpl-strip.jpg

Last.fm is from the UK, and while it doesn't seem that groundbreaking of thing, they've been around quite a while and most streaming services almost certainty took ideas from what …

If you fancy posix shell (and C/C++ support) https://github.com/jmmv/atf/

Where you were born, or at least the strength of your country's passport has a huge impact[0] Depending on your passport's strength you may get visa on entry, have to apply for a v…

I've been a long-time in-browser slack user and yesterday Firefox refused to open any slack link, bookmark, or history entry I had. Closing all my tabs and relaunching FF did not h…

Using a contact form that sends you an email server-side is a good one, that way they never have your email (unless you respond). I also had a static website at one point where I d…

yes, with caveats It's a private company. If they were unable to host their own servers, and no ISP would give them an IP address then that is a problem as long as they're followin…

Can suggest this as well, also I might suggest using Terraform. The Console hides/obfuscates some things, w/ Terraform how resources are linked and work together become much more c…

If you have customers with servers, then surely (hopefully) someone remotely technical manages them but I've found that technical expertise varies greatly and in my experience not …

We've been VERY slowly moving some legacy applications from Rackspace over to AWS. After we migrate one and we're sure everything is good we delete the old VM. We've been doing thi…

You might have just convinced me to buy a bread machine... To add a similar answer, only in the past couple of years have I had a nice rice cooker (we have a Zojirushi) that keeps …

Came here to say the same thing.

No, but in our case, moving the sensitive data to a table queried less frequently than one used as a queue shrinks our logs considerably.

Just one data point, that might be of use to know: We're currently running into an issue where we've used a table as a message queue in a database. We gained a compliance requireme…

I'll be honest, I thought this was really silly at first from scrolling through the linked blog post but when working in a significantly different timezones as I have in the past (…

Got married, submitted adjustment of status forms, received notice of action 1, waiting for biometric appointment.

Do you think the new administration will have an impact on immigration and if so, what do you think will change? My wife and I have been waiting since July on an update to her K1 a…

Multi-AZ doesn't help when a whole region is down, unless you're referring to multi-region AZs (e.g us-east-1a and us-west-1a)

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned awsm.css yet: https://igoradamenko.github.io/awsm.css/

Create a domain on gandi.net (or possibly some other provider, been a gandi customer over a decade so that's what I know) create an email on your new domain. Then whenever you need…

That is terrible. As a "boss" of an SRE team, we only use the GUI for groking, testing (in a sandbox account), and for a handful of _documented_ things that have to be done in the …

I was always a fan of wall mounted PCs (As someone who doesn't have kids, pets, or other forces of nature in my house). Do any manufacturers make wall mount PC "cases"?