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It’s interesting to me how quickly I’ve soured on the concept of open banking, which on paper sounds fantastic and originally I was very much in favour of. And which I’ve used pers…

“Everything old is new again”. Not always inaccurate, but often used to overlook nuance.

My partner and I had been working with a personal trainer up until the lockdown hit and had sold most of our exercise equipment before we moved to London, so without the gym we wer…

Yes, the company I’m contracting at currently has done exactly this. We’ve kept Slack around for calls and for monitoring alerts, but other than that it’s all in Basecamp. It has m…

I've read more in the past 12 months than in the past few years, purely because I discovered a company in the UK called the Folio Society[1]. They sell beautifully bound and illust…

Killer feature for me is being able to cmd+click on file paths in the terminal to open them. I use this constantly. There are plenty of other features too such as being able to reo…

Creating a checklist for my morning routine has been such a great time-saver and anxiety-reducer for me. I have everything on there, even the most obvious items such as "eat breakf…

Not saying that these are valid reasons however two that spring to mind are thickness (USB-C is fairly significantly thicker) and elegance (one could argue that Lightning is a more…

I'm on mobile so not sure if anyone else has pointed this out but Apple mentioned in the keynote that the escape key is still present when using the terminal. There is also a way t…

Interestingly I was getting occasional black screens (i.e. the entire screen, status bar and all) in Safari on iOS 10. Not seen that on any other site before.

I used to use this excuse to justify ridiculous levels of spending. My time is valuable, etc. It's definitely true for some people but probably not most and certainly not me. Unles…

Rails doesn't execute the query until you actually use it in some way, by which point it knows you've added a limit clause.

Adblockers on iOS require the 64 bit A7 SoC which was released with the 5S. I'm not sure if there's a valid reason why they couldn't make it work on 32 bit too, whether it was just…

You might want to look into this: http://www.lumobodytech.com/lumo-lift/ I haven't tried one myself, although I am tempted as I often get quite bad back pain (at age 23 :-/ ), howe…

Try user groups for your languages / technologies of choice. I subscribe to a couple of Ruby user groups in the UK where jobs and contracts are routinely posted - in fact, it's how…

I use Arq[1] for backing up my Mac. It's also available on Windows, but not Linux. However, it does allow you to back up to Linux, via SFTP. It also supports S3 and a few other clo…

I made Trunk as an Evernote alternative. It's open-source and web-based, using Markdown to store notes. It might be too simple for your needs however. You can try it at http://tryt…

For the past month or so I've been building a notes app as I wanted to move away from Evernote and couldn't find a good replacement. It has been really fun building something that …

First of all, thanks for your feedback - really appreciate you trying it out and taking the time to offer your thoughts. Regarding your points: 1. I'll check the search tonight and…

This article reads as if it were copied straight out of an email from a PR rep.

I've drastically cut my HN time in the past few months by following this one weird trick: Add "news.ycombinator.com##td.subtext" following to your Adblock/uBlock custom filters. Yo…