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I’ve noticed a lot of changes on the site recently, which I believe is powered by Ghost which makes messing around with feed links a more advanced (for lack of a better word) tweak…

I thought the two sounded similar, then I saw at the bottom they both have come from the same two founders. Nice to have a straightforward alternative to NextDNS to recommend to re…

This is very close my personal struggle; summarised by “I can do anything except one thing”.

Agreed. We bought my wife an NC last year when the criteria was “cheap, petrol, naturally aspirated and Japanese”. The criteria was in response to my Land Rover (Discovery / LR4) w…

I have a small flask - about the volume of a cup of coffee - made by Kinto. It can deliver those surprise burns hours after filling. It’s almost too good, and has been relegated to…

That was my sense too. Used it for a few similar programs today (like converting HTML to Markdown but parsing certain elements to shortcodes) and scaffolding a Rust web app. It's d…

I did this recently when a blog post described the exact, very niche issue I was having with a production server. This post described the symptoms of the issue clearly and included…

And if you can't read German, it's very similar to the IR35 [0] rules that we have here in the UK. Effectively... "Don't work as a freelancer for a company if they are your only cl…

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Thanks! I've always been a surfer, but split my time with other activities. Post-accident everyone thinks I'm scared of getting back on the bike — maybe a bit? — but genuinely my f…

Ah, thanks for the clarification. That post-ORIF pain being worse than the break was my experience too. Even with the plate I became quite paranoid about shifting the screws becaus…

Mine felt immediately worse after the ORIF. After two weeks getting comfortable in their new positions, all the ligaments really resented getting wrenched back into place. Good ill…

I shattered my collarbone - and I do mean shattered, ~8 pieces - in a mountain bike crash September 2023. I went over the bars after the back wheel of my hardtail caught a berm. La…

I bought a 16 Pro after the camera on my previous iPhone stopped working. Despite being a camera-led purchase - and I do care about the camera on my phone - I would have bought thi…

Using fish shell has largely solved my gripes with complex commands. It’s not AI autocomplete, but it remembers the complex commands perfectly, so I only need to work it out once. …

My German peaked during an exchange, where after a few weeks of it "washing over" me I was using the language more naturally, even if still making frequent errors. Equally my Frenc…

So … what does the consensus on best technique for learning a new language? I remember seeing some techniques mentioned here over the years - specifically in response to a question…

Can’t argue with that! :D

I’ll confess to being ignorant on the science. For instance I know that many of the local guides don’t use oxygen, but attributing that capability to time at altitude (“training” f…

I'm only pointing out that those SaaS starter kits existed over ten years ago, and I've got the invoice to prove it! :D

There was a time about ten years ago I worked with a few people who had climbed Everest (one multiple times) and a handful more that were due to in the next couple of years. We wor…

I've not encountered "Brave New World" but I love (and can see) the metaphor!

34 year old who grew up on Guernsey (small island south and independent of Britain but with very much the same values) and went to a state-funded Grammar school for secondary and c…

Hate to break it to you but this trend of selling people a system to make money where the seller is actually enacting the system they’re selling is older than the internet. I can r…