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chris__butters

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About chris__butters

Digital handyman

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    Comment #18544192

    iwantmyname.com for domains, simple registration with very little upselling or marketing gumpf CloudFlare for DNS Vultr or DigitalOcean for hosting

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    Comment #17818156

    The process of deleting your account isn't something that has to be you can do yourself using a "delete my account" button with half a dozen confirmation boxes. They can process it…

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    Comment #17809398

    Forget about the money part for a while; look at problems to solve and things you can build as learning exercises to try and get your skills up to scratch. Look at a todo app - bor…

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    Comment #17800065

    I get this glitch too. Nice concept though

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    Comment #17756399

    Current reading material Dark Matt and Trojan Horses by Dan Hill Interaction of Color by Josef Albers Simplicity by Edward de Bono

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    Comment #17507608

    iMac with an extra monitor, keyboard and mouse, notebook, sticky notes, water bottle and a tub of almonds for snacks. Temporarily have a fan too due to weather at the minute.

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    Comment #17310708

    Most recruiters still need your CV/Resume in a PDF or Word doc so it can be scanned by their software. This is mine [ https://code-designs.co.uk/ ] it's fairly minimalist with a si…

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    Comment #17301260

    I'd look at nextCloud https://nextcloud.com/ Open source and can handle most file types.

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    Comment #17301252

    Koken is more of a solution for building a photography based website. It wouldn't work for photos you'd want to keep private.

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    Comment #17254234

    You can create a segment and export it as a CSV, that way you can then reimport into a new list with the related GDPR fields and delete the old list. I wouldn't necessarily say it'…

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    Comment #17254213

    GDPR fields aren't accessible through the API at the minute, MailChimp are apparently working on it but I wouldn't hold my breath.

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    Comment #17152337

    I've used MailChimp a lot and it's good Campaign Monitor is awesome from a templating standpoint. Sendy is by far the cheapest and is self hosted (I haven't used this so can't say …

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    Comment #17151850

    Drip seems really focused on marketing automation for ecommerce rather than general email marketing with its built in ECRM

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    Comment #17143351

    Where do you live?? If you are within the EU you must have been living under a rock for the past 6 months. GDPR is new legislation that evolves most data protection laws to make it…

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    Comment #17125137

    If the data is anonymised when collected you can't follow through with the right to erasure as they're should be nothing uniquely identifiable for that user. Otherwise you have to …

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    Comment #17125113

    Get legal advice now! As long as you are looking into GDPR and how it affects your business you can evolve it over time rather than completely change everything by the 25th.

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    Comment #16818804

    As someone who lives in the UK not even I would move to London; it is the economic hub of the UK but with that comes huge rent and high competition to find office space. Look at ot…

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    Comment #16800793

    Anything to do with company formation to protect yourself from arbitration you should talk to legal counsel. Other considerations would be GDPR if doing anything within the EU.

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    Comment #16639026

    It isn't just Facebook that collects this data and allows others to use it - it's the business model for dozens of other organisations including Google. Two people quitting one org…

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    Comment #16575169

    Head of digital for a small design studio. And not really happy here due to the sometimes hostile environment between the egotistic designers and myself and even the partners who d…

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    Comment #16550764

    Thanks, makes perfect sense; not sure of what other features to add right now so might base it on number of seats to suit other organisations more.

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    Ash HN: How much would you pay for.?

    I'm building an app to give designers, developers, marketers or anyone the ability to create a directory scaffold for their project whatever that could be. I'm looking into monetis…

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    Comment #16316304

    Great idea and well done with balancing it with a full time job and a child. The only thing I can pick up on is spelling and grammar on the website, the main thing that jumped out …

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    Comment #16237950

    Are Google still trying to brainwash everyone into trusting them? I find it funny when they are the ones who, if they could, would track our every movement to then try and sell us …

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    Comment #16223188

    This really doesn't work, I've taken a few "sick" days but to be honest, we are that quiet sometimes that nobody even notices if I'm not there