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I roasted MySpace hard back in the day, but now I kind of miss it. I was all too happy to move over to Facebook and leave MySpace behind. For me, the exodus from MySpace to Faceboo…

Eki-melos are the things that I really liked about taking trains in Japan. The chirping bird sounds to help blind users find their way to and from the platforms is also a pretty in…

Emurse | https://emurse.io/jobs | Outbound Sales Specialist | Remote | Part-Time Emurse is a platform for learning languages with a focus on instructor-led courses, phonetics and c…

I mostly get AI slop ads for scam products, though slop videos do creep into my shorts feed.

We're using Stripe to run our marketplace where teachers can sell their language courses. It does MOST of what we want/need. I've done numerous checkout/payment processing integrat…

Most of these are common sense. As a tourist foreigner, you also aren't expected to know all the customs but it's appreciated when you try. The one about which direction to NOT poi…

The UI for loopmaster looks really good. The color scheme is really pleasing to look at and it is easy to jump right in and start editing stuff. I've owned a bunch of different syn…

Fish sauce is also really popular in southeast Asia and Worcestershire sauce is often made with fermented fish so can also be considered garum adjacent.

Anki is great for what it is, but it has some annoyances when studying languages. They were annoying enough for me that I build some tools for Anki to try to address the problems. …

Multiple variations "per-card" are the way to go. It was one of my big gripes about Anki too! My other big complaint is that it only really is tracking one metric when it comes to …

It's hard for even developers and small companies TRYING to make a living there. Keeping an app active in the app stores requires a lot of extra overhead, but doesn't add significa…

I've been developing with .NET since version 1.1. I feel like it's always been pretty easy to use for beginners. You install Visual Studio, create a new project and BOOM you've got…

I am working on a platform for learning languages called Emurse. It has some neat features, like tools to help improve your pronunciation. You also have the ability to study conten…

I just got back from Japan. I did not notice a difference in performance between tapping with a Blink credit card and tapping with an IC card. I only used the ICOCA card. There wer…

I am working on making it easier to learn languages. We provide a platform for teachers and educators to create their own language courses. The platform offers features similar to …

The author specifically said he didn't ready the book.

We had a history teacher in high school who noted that. He always tried to cover the factors that led up to an event happening. I always appreciated that. Ultimately, there's only …

I struggle when trying to solve math problems without context. I learned enough trigonometry to pass the final exams in high school, but I didn't REALLY understand it until I took …

Browser based apps are better than ever. As a developer who has delivered applications on CD-ROM and downloadable installers, I do not have a strong desire to return to these times…

I've been following Mattias' work for a while now. It's impressive the amount of really big projects he has finished over the years. His YouTube channel has all sorts of interestin…

jQuery UI was a step up from the time, but it was still painful to do basic things compared to now. I much preferred developing front-end for apps deployed on the web in Flex and l…

This will be great for custom maps. I am on QGIS 3.30 and many of the street labels at 1:31860 scale show up in red and are not aligned correctly.

I didn't check to see if Thai was supported, but it hangs when I try to perform TTS on the text "ฉันพูดภาษาไทย" and then comes back with an error message several minutes later.

Using an AI for A/B testing. Hmmmm. At the end of the day, the AI model would produce a prediction of what your modeled users would prefer. The quality of the results would depend …

Kaoss Pad! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaoss_Pad