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XMPP / Jabber would be more than enough for many small companies. Slack is bloat!

Exactly. I think only software developers believe AI is going to kill app subscriptions, because they're the ones who can actually wrangle the output into something maintainable. F…

Just sit down and think hard. If it doesn’t work, think harder.

Me too! I usually get pretty obsessed with a new topic out of deep curiosity. I then dive deep, think about it a lot, hunt down answers to burning questions. At some point this’ll …

I’m not sure where you’ve got the stats from, but student visas granted dropped since 2022, acc to UK gov (-5% in 2023, -14% in 2024).[0] Combined with universities' increasing rel…

Yes I’d agree with that. International student income dropped, rounds of layoffs. Some universities are better at optimising for rankings, see also REF research funding and how muc…

They make a ton of sense when you’re riding long distance and when you don’t have access to a charger.

So to put it bluntly, sweet talking a president-elect can overturn a Supreme Court decision? Interesting political culture.

Also remember the viewer sees both sides and has complete information, whereas all contestants have very little to go by and no clues are given.

Rest.

It looks a bit silly but also a lot of fun!

To me, this recurring narrative of product versus engineering is both tiresome and misguided. In well-run companies, commercial, product, and engineering teams are aligned - overus…

Lots of people say the fingerprint reader should work out of the box on Ubuntu, but I also never got it to work!

I’d use Apple Maps more frequently, but business data and reviews are just not very helpful compared to Google Maps (at least where I am).

Any alternative search engine that has its own, independent index is worth supporting, imo. Mojeek results have overall been useful the last couple of times I used it and the team …

I switched back and forth between Astro and Hugo. I ended up staying with Hugo because I post loads of photos and image optimisation, or responsive images, was much easier to imple…