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At Octopus Energy, I think we’ve made negative prices available to retail customers (at least in the UK, not sure about the other countries we’re retailing in). People getting paid…

It's not a law enforcement issue, it's a city planning issue. The practical solution is to reallocate usage of the street to prioritize all modes of transport. i.e. Take a car lane…

It depends on the level of rain, but there are affordable solutions to cycling in the rain to prevent you from getting drenched. I use the Rover cycling poncho from Cleverhoods to …

That's the one. Thanks for the correction. Forgot my keyboard, which has a ctrl key in place of the caps, so I've stopped mapping it.

Cmd-a and Cmd-e work in most/all native controls, no? Really ergonomic once you've remapped caps to cmd as well.

Yes, it's called Vouch and it's documented well on the indieweb wiki. https://indieweb.org/Vouch

The Japanese country side isn't too different than the US. Sure there's trains, but not an extensive network ala Tokyo, and you drive everywhere. The way they handle the issue is "…

Japan used to have a bad drunk driving problem until they changed the laws to be mostly zero tolerance. If your caught it's an automatic 90-day suspension of your license. Over 0.2…

Blogs like the author is looking for still exist (I write one at https://jamesvandyne.com ) and there's heaps more on https://micro.blog . Blogs that aren't SEO fluff to get adsens…

You may like micro.blog. It’s a blog/rss based social network. You can create a blog with them or import an existing RSS feed (what I do). It’s all chronological. And since it’s “j…

The indieweb is what got me back in to blogging and RSS again. Being able to be social on the net without FB/Twitter has made being on the 'net fun again. Adding your feed to micro…

Webmentions are a great way of getting back to a decentralized web. Being able to comment on someone else's site _from your own site_ feels like magic. It brings back memories of t…

Off topic from the main thread, but Travel map looks really good. Reminds me of all the travel blogs I used to read when I was in high school / college dreaming about getting out a…

Agree 100%. Integrate hosting via iCloud. Blogs and personal websites are our best hope for the web in a world dominated by social media.

I've not quit Twitter, but I've reduced my usage of it (and gained control of my data) by syndicating my posts/statuses from to Twitter and backfeeding any replies/likes as comment…

While the UI UX in macOS has degraded a bit, minimizing windows you’re not using as the main way to manage a desktop is, I think, a Windows habit. macOS works much better if you ma…

Rams is great. Bought it on Vimeo shortly after it came out. You won’t regret it. When Rams speaks about design, it always makes me reflect on modern software and how we’ve regress…

If you’re looking for a remote job in Japan it’s worth checking out the remote in Japan repo on GitHub. Heaps of good companies that do remote (including the one I work for). https…

It really depends on the culture of the company. In my company (95% Japanese/non-gaishiki-kei) it’s the norm for people to take a couple months off when there’s a new addition to t…

You can take them to the shop and repair / replace the heel and cork. Cost-wise I think my Bostons were $150 new and to fully replace the cork and sole was about $90. Much cheaper …

Yes it’s partially cultural, but it also depends on the company. I work for a company in Tokyo (about 35 - 40 people, 90%+ Japanese). We work 7.5 hour days, go home on time, and ca…

Thank you for the feedback. Yes - more screenshots / a properly filled out marketing site are on the list of things to do. Good idea about an "About" section. Workshop is the name …

Brilliant. Thank you for this response.

Did you view our marketing site at https://kwoosh.com/ ? Good point though, we could update the footer on workshop to be a bit more specific.

author here. I agree with what you're saying in broad terms. And yes, you're right that handling sales tax perfectly at launch won't kill your product. What's the killer is all of …