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That's the public data. I can tell you I've worked in this industry for 20+ years and run probably one of the biggest sites in this space selling boat graphics. The most popular na…

I'm testing it in my business. I'm in a unique position of running a business totally unrelated to software dev, handled customer service personally for 15+ years. I developed a AI…

I'm not sure how this is a good thing. There are already very limited options to accept payments online, consolidating two of the major ones is not a great thing.

Braintree was a legit competitor, last time I checked they won't even onboard you if you don't have an established business grossing over 100k/yr.

On Aug 27th 2025, Braintree (owned by PayPal) introduced a policy that forces merchants to accept pre-arbitrations for disputes under $1,000: https://developer.paypal.com/braintree…

I used this about 2 months ago going from MySql 5.7->8.0 Really awesome feature.

Entirely predictable train wreck in the making. The vision based transition from the start has been a complete mess for years now. Here is a short summary for those that don't unde…

This still doesn't add up. The new HW4 Model 3 "highland" doesn't have more cameras. Notably there is a no front bumper camera. It also have one LESS camera in the windshield. The …

I'm thankful to have a very low percentage of chargebacks for the amount of transactions I process. However,the process sucks. These days if a customer wants they can essentially g…

Haven't verified it but former congressman Adam kinzinger claimed Canada did just that. It took over 1000 rounds and 4 hours to accomplish.

Yep, provided as much detail as possible with code samples. Pretty much as if you were emailing someone for help.

ChatGPT is already chipping away at my Google searches. I'm more and more just starting there for coding related questions. I've had chatgpt help me with the following just this we…

More and more I'm finding myself just going to ChatGPT for answers I would otherwise find on stack overflow or search engines. In that respect I think bing would be dumb not to pro…

If it isn't obvious this is the new norm for Twitter. Elon is making up the rules as he goes and ruling like a pissed off insecure reddit mod. I don't buy into all the freedom of s…

I'm not sure why anyone expected twitter not to be run like another of his other companies. This freedom of speech play will always be secondary to Elon's whims.

Not really, in court filings there are text messages with him pretty clearly discussing his rationale. https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-texts-joe-rogan-larry-elllison...

What an epic debacle. Since hangouts has been phased out there isn't even a way to one click video call someone anymore in google chat, it is a hacky meet link. There was a time wh…

Windows has become a complete UI disaster. I feel like Windows 7 was the last cohesive UI. The control panel is a great example. I'm not sure how it could possibly be more of a tra…

If I was starting from scratch I would probably use an micro ORM like dapper or in my case I have experience with Petapoco. There are so many "gotchas" to using EF that I'm not sur…

We had a Gen 1 Volt for nearly two years. A greatly underrated car in my opinion. No maintenance issues at all, it just worked like it was supposed to. Frankly people are scared of…

I've used Sendy for years and haven't found this to be true at all.

It is tied to their session ID / shopping cart. They are free to modify the cart and it recalculates the discount.

Online design products like signs, lettering, and digital graphics.

I encourage people to save their order confirmation email which contains a secure URL back to the website which has their original order and links to reorder the same items. Simple…