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This makes me really happy to see this non social media, non algo part of the internet going from strength to strength. Having deleted my socials and regained some time, I’ve just …

A really good read. I was a bit later to the party but, my God, it was better then. But the reality of shareholder value and developers salaries had to come from somewhere, and her…

Started a challenger media business, still stressy, but I have purpose and I have much more satisfaction in life

An interesting retrospective and nice to read, though I had to chuckle at "soft" discs. Is 'floppy' now considered offensive? I started my web dev career when MSIE was accelerating…

Fucking good.

No idea, but I bet the brand equity created for the MSN brand via MSN messenger was indeed huge across a boatload of international markets. Seems like a huge amount of wasted tract…

A nice little slice of internet history. True is the lesson that scale doesn’t represent success. I wonder how many of the current tech companies will learn the same lesson, or hav…

Yeah. Hackneys weren't great, but ubiquitous and convenient in London (even if it was like travelling in blender). Mini cabs were/are ass, in every UK city, and they deserved to ge…

Property portfolios = people paying your pension one day.

I’m so pleased that someone isn’t afraid to reject the WFH kool aid. Just because certain personality types work better in solitude doesn’t mean it’s one-size-fits-all. Others are …

I use the Dyson on my Mac’s exhaust every so often for the same reason, it’s satisfying to see the amount of crud that comes out of it.

I can’t believe I got hooked in by that deceptive, clickbaity headline. Am I on the ExpressOnline and didn’t realise?!

I call bs. It was a very clever entry to the market with lots of opportunity for product improvement. 3G chip? Reason to upgrade. App Store? Another.

Good piece, and nice to see a local lad on here. waves from Park Square

As to your colleague, thank you. If I can be of any help in helping identify where support went wrong, please hit me up.

Despite the issues with support, I’m pleased to report how Stripe’s engineering team understood, took ownership and resolved this nasty little bug as it turned out. I couldn’t beli…

Postman is a decent stop gap, thanks for the suggestion

TLDR. Business impacting dashboard functionality removed. Need a drop in replacement for stripe. Oh, and support sucks. We use a couple of stripe integrations for our website and h…

Trying to click through to this piece from HN on Facebook tells me this link is malicious. Sour grapes on FB’s part?

FYI, my new 13in MBP went back after 9 days because of failed/stuck keys :(

Yep. I'm right there with you. I thought the new mac had an issue loading webpages. Turns out I was involuntarily cancelling navigation with ESC all the bloody time.

Yep, my 6S had a goosed battery, walked into the Apple Store and 15min later I had a new phone with a predictable battery (and a headphone jack, happy times)

The author sounds super fucking bitchy. Shared workspaces are crap for getting work done - proper focussed work that you go home and puts a skip in your step. But this isn't the re…

If you're having an affair or doing pretty much anything that you might not want people to know you're doing, there are a hundred and one ways for people to find you. Users aren't …

Great explanation