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I put my phone’s brightness down to minimum at night. Nonetheless I use HN purposely as a dim light when the phone’s torch would be too bright and a beige glow does the job splendi…

Amen. This is an issue at the company I work at. Common typos when looking up has keys will return nil - this has a tendency to silently keep working and blow up with a runtime err…

A couple of things jump out: 1. Dahl had already made changes to the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The early editions had African pygmies as his free labour. I don’t think the…

This is known as the Peter Principle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

I’m on fibre. Last month I had a lot of video calls on zoom, Google Meet, MS Teams and even WebEx. Google was by far the most reliable and MS Teams was frequently a complete mess w…

I immediately like this project for being “framework independent” rather than agnostic. It’s odd how computing has fashioned a completely different sense for “agnostic” despite per…

Manning also have a book on Lucene, the library that powers Solr and ElasticSearch. IIRC the book covered how Lucene actually works under-the-good and would therefore act as a good…

Anyone have recommendations on storing crypto outside of coinbase? I’ve used them to buy a small amount and they make it pretty easy, but concerned that they are not necessarily th…

Keeping the temperature of the bedroom cold made a big difference for me. I’ve been listening to audiobooks and podcasts for years and that helped better than not, but turning the …

This is bring back a lot of memories - in a former life I took care of digital products for dictionaries at Pearson Longman, and one of my favourite projects was developing a gener…

And it’s not exactly a UX paradise if one is a premium customer either. I really find the UI hard work on desktop and mobile. If and when Apple Music introduces a Duo equivalent ta…

Dart is also a Google conceived language but it’s not exactly what I’d call popular despite only hearing positive things about the language itself. Unlike Swift or Kotlin that are …

I was a happy client of Maslins when I switched from sole trader to limited company. I was doing freelance software development so the switch was a doddle. You get a FreeAgent acco…

My local Sainsbury’s supermarket used to have a cardboard cutout police officer in the window as a crime prevention tool. I seem to recall it being fairly common at the time. Clear…

+1 I’m keen on finding engaging maths content for my 8yo.

Writer Ben Macintyre has written extensively, and lucidly, about deception campaigns of WWI. Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat, and Double Cross all capture the efforts made by the…

Reminds me of Flight of the Conchords’ Hurt Feeling song in which they are trying to portray themselves as rappers: “Some people think rappers are invincible. We’re vincable.” http…

IntelliJ is great, PyCharm is good. But RubyMine is the one I’ve used daily for years and it’s a bit of a dog’s dinner and I think getting progressively worse over the years. I’ve …

I recall (albeit vaguely) reading an interesting book "Renegades of the Empire: How Three Software Warriors Started a Revolution Behind the Walls of Fortress" by Michael Drummond. …

I’ve mentioned this previously but it’s on topic and still amazes me, so I’ll just copy & paste: I know someone who works at one of the London airports and is responsible for keepi…

That was a delightful thread.