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It's Go on the backend, Postgres DB, Go HTML templates, a bit of jQuery but otherwise everything uses pure JS. It was (and is intended to be) deployed to AWS, and uses SES for noti…

Sure thing. Feel free to get in touch and we can chat :)

I agree. I'm happy to open source it, and will likely end up doing so.

Good advice, thanks :)

That is definitely an option, and I am completely happy to do that.

I've been working on this product in various forms for 20 years. It's never been a commercial product. It's effectively site building (e.g. Wix or Squarespace) plus e-commerce (e.g…

One of the most significant ones is with constant network dropouts. I'm not talking about Wifi or some weird and wonderful adapter either. Wired ethernet on an Intel i219 - constan…

Debian Stretch (see my separate post here for more info)

Unfortunately, I think Canonical has lost their focus on the desktop user. Every version of Ubuntu since 16.04 has had major issues for me. I have given every one of them a chance …

I suspect that part of the reason that "as traffic rises, the quality of journalism is dropping" is because the types of articles that increase "engagement" appeal to the type of p…

Thanks for taking the time to do those comparisons. Very interesting. I was always too afraid of using a "terminal text editor", but the last 12 months or so I have made the effort…

I've been using Debian Stretch (which was previously Debian Testing) for the last 2 years. I didn't ever have a single problem. But as the months passed I kept getting miffed about…

I haven't had a single issue with Firefox (54) out of the box. I know that some add-ons can break the multi-process windows feature, but out of the box has been fine, both with cle…

You can use the "Dash to Panel" extension in Gnome to provide a Windows 7 like bottom panel. I discovered it recently, and it has made my Gnome experience 1000x better.

Thanks for your considered thoughts.

Firstly, what I use and where I'm coming from: I've distro hopped in VirtualBox (so I can experiment) for more than 5 years, trying out every distro I can find. I currently run Deb…

I am looking for the location of an article I read a year or so ago. I think it was on a reputable scientific journal site. The basic premise of the experiment was that a particle …

I think that most people would answer your question by saying "because I need Mac app XYZ and Linux doesn't have a nice equivalent yet". I used to have a MacbookPro. I'm now 100% L…

All true. We're all free to install any DE environment we want. But defaults are definitely useful to the entry level Linux users. I would love to see the day when the first (and e…

I agree completely that experimentation needs to occur. I definitely don't begrudge them for making the decision to implement Unity. My initial thoughts were more hypothetical - an…

I'm sure they lost a lot of fans with Unity. They lost even more with the Amazon search debacle. But it's almost certain that they won just as many with both of those changes. I do…

Well said, they need to do things smarter. But I guess that's what they are doing with this decision. They've determined that Unity has failed as a commercial endeavour, and now th…

I like that quote: competition is good, but replication is a waste. One of the comments below says that Unity was a necessary experiment, and it could have resulted in something am…