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props for still using Skitch to annotate images in 2026

I've been using a bash encapsulation of this for a long time, works great. https://github.com/laurent22/rsync-time-backup

This wording is ambiguous- it's the first to support 5GHz, but it's not their first RISC-V core.

Sibling comments are bashing MS. I read your comment to the end, and it read like a punchline to a joke, given who owns Azure?

I think the original sentence was written more in of "Your loss is my gain" competitive advantage vein. The real trick is, as you say, to critically assess the output, and many peo…

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/327/

ska?

In talking about a switch to USB-C, one point seems to be missing - Lightning gives Apple absolute control over which devices can connect. If you don't pay up your MFI fees, and ge…

"Dropbox also went public. It had a first-day pop of 36 percent; however, with only 200,000 paying customers compared to its 500 million users, I would be hesitant to rush in to bu…

Dogfooding your driverless car software by driving your fellow employees around in a van powered by it? There could be some awkward moments in the cafeteria chatting with your work…

I think people are always looking for a take on a new product that can be shown with 20-20 hindsight to be proven wrong... " No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." for the or…

If your only value metric is about personal storage, then you might see Dropbox as 'doomed' by its more-space-for-less-cost competitors. I've worked with Dropbox and OneDrive and d…

I've written batch scripts with WP-CLI and mysql to spin up new sites, from scratch, including database creations, install latest core, a suite of base plugins, install themes and …

It looks great. I find it intriguing that it's a 2D platformer done in a 3d environment. Were you ever tempted to move the camera?

You've added another dependency into the mix here. I've been comfortable storing my database in Dropbox, with a decent length master password (15char+) on the assumption that it us…

I've had this experience with 2.x and as I recall, on machine B where the file was already open with unsaved changes, I was prompted to merge changes after Dropbox updated the file…

This talk of contracts sounds to me just like Android's intents, which have been in there forever - one example being a app having a share button that then pops up a list of all ap…