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I like ads, but detest cookie banners. Good ads can teach you a lesson about copywriting or storytelling, cookie banners are pure time wasters.

PHP + jQuery/Vue/Alpine + SQLite

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Yes, I don't know anyone who uses Guice, but lots of people who use Spring. The momentum was never there, nor it will be.

This trend will benefit big companies and harm small local companies. Hiring abroad is not as easy as you might think, usually you need to establish legal presence in the other cou…

Extensions will still be able to read all the requests, just not block them, so Google's argument for privacy is moot. Given that one of the biggest performance hogs are the ads an…

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Google Chrome is closed source too.

B2 to Cloudflare egress is free, they are both part of Bandwidth Alliance: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/solutions/content-delivery.html

Where does Windy's data come from?

- One tap to enter Picture-in-picture mode in Safari when watching YouTube. - Choosing an emoji in WhatsApp Desktop. - Pausing and seeing a podcast's listening progress in Apple Po…

I love the TouchBar!

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Wikiloc ( https://www.wikiloc.com/ ) | Mobile Engineer (Android / iOS) | Remote (or onsite in Spain) Wikiloc is a place to discover and share the best outdoor trails for hiking, cy…

Sorry, I'm not an expert. What am I supposed to do with the emulator-symbols.zip?

I need to add hw.audioInput=no hw.audioOutput=no to every AVD I create. Otherwise, the Android Emulator uses 100% CPU all the time, even when it's been idle for minutes. I'm far fr…

US salaries are really high. For context, in Southern Europe, most developers don't even earn $3000/month BEFORE taxes and expenses.

I live in Spain and have never heard of any salaried employee that makes $9600 per month. Not even those with 10+ years of experience.

Good twitter thread on quitting your job: https://twitter.com/adamscrabble/status/1100835023165493254

Get some quality sleep. Seriously. I thought I was mentally lazy, it turns out I was just exhausted from chronic sleep deprivation.

WeChat is a not a chat app. It's a micro universe. Imagine WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Paypal, Uber, etc. and an entire app platform all integrated into a single app. That's WeCha…

First result on Google now. Well done!

Lockless channels when?

A single set of extensions and bookmarks. With Chrome, even if you manually sync your profiles and keep the same set of extensions installed in both profiles, it runs 2 processes o…

Safari is the best choice if you care about battery life. I literally get 2 extra hours of battery life when using Safari on macOS vs using Chrome. What's incredible is that Chrome…