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This--and also, if you're a US resident traveling abroad, you can't access most health data without a US-based VPN. Everything's "in the portal" -- you're effectively helpless with…

Well, not conpletely Emperor’s New Clothes: after I got my basic chess clock, I asked for skeuomorphic changes…I got a fantastic “next steps” summary in return…but when I said “Go …

[Full disclosure, work @ Firebase] But try this: Open up a blank Flutter template in Studio: https://studio.firebase.google.com/new/flutter After everything initializes and your An…

Yep. My mother-in-law taught me this. Walking is a pretty great universal cure, if you’re lucky enough to be able to walk long distances. But also: hamstring stretches. YMMV, but w…

Wow. Blast from the past. Just tried to log in after 20 years and it worked…but I didn’t get farther than it requiring full name and a phone number and lots of other mobile web bad…

Check out Dithertron, it’s got Apple ][ (and >30 other platforms): https://8bitworkshop.com/dithertron/

It’s not just baby powder. It was in Grandma’s Coty powder puff and is in your little niece’s eyeshadow from Claire’s ( https://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/cosmetics-recalls-alerts/fda-a…

I live in Florida, where these subscription-only car washes proliferate like kudzu; they’ve crowded out the good old gas station stalwarts that you might or might not get stuck in …

This is awesome! Have really been thinking about this a lot lately, and my SES->Google Workspace solution works, but isn't viable if we ever left Google Workspace. I might set one …

I've been using it for over six years now, I'm always worried it'll stop working...but besides having to bump my node.js version a few times, so far so good, knock on wood.

When I requested to escape the sandbox, my request was granted in nine hours...admittedly, this was six years ago, but it looks like the process is the same ( https://docs.aws.amaz…

I had not heard that man’s name in several years—and was happier for it. Larry Summers making decisions for OpenAI doesn’t bode well at all.

A few years ago, my parents were downsizing and I wanted to find a respectful home for some of the amazing stuff he had in the garage, so we donated to the Vintage Computer Foundat…

* A script that periodically screenscraped booked-up campsite reservation sites for cancellations during dates I wanted and sent me text messages (thanks, Twilio!). We got to stay …

The current chatbots are kind of like a calculator for language—they’re not going to do all your work for you, but they’ll definitely speed and streamline the process.

That's one thing I really like about subscribing for services and news through Amazon or Apple, it's so much easier to cancel or pause the subscription when I want and I've never h…

Yes, oh my goodness. And it's not just software--I've been feeling this pretty acutely while holiday shopping. Have lost way too much time funneled and sidetracked onto subscriptio…

More like, move slow and jump titles. When they finally did send registration paperwork to our DMV, the state had it turned around in two days. Pretty quick!

I went through this, it was a total battle to get them to legally register our car and I wouldn’t recommend the experience to anyone. I’m really surprised to have had to have scrol…