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GDS is really brilliant, it's true.

You can charge up mushrooms with vitamin D (D2) by placing them in direct sunlight for 30 minutes. Any ordinary mushrooms. So salmon (D3) and charged mushrooms would do just as wel…

Yeah. England&Wales legislation is fairly comprehensible. Of course it could be better. I just ran a random tax law through Hemingway and it scores between Grade 9 and 11, occasion…

I do love it. I really do. I run a free code school for refugees, with an internal division where we also build products. All our teachers are volunteers, professionals from the lo…

Here's what we do with beginner developers who have never coded before: - build pages in Codepen so they can see everything build as they go, fork from templates, and share/riff of…

Hard same. Adobe cheated me out of around six hundred pounds by making it freaking impossible to cancel. I finally escaped in 2021, after being devoted to Adobe for 16 years. I wil…

You are completely welcome. It's an absolute joy, that place!

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Aye - I wrote the front end, a loooong time ago now.

In different ways, most things I've done have been meaningful. I learnt to code through cofounding a massive non-profit fanfic website with my friends and that build helped... me! …

I notice this difference with my US friends. They do seem to think hunger is a genuine problem that must be resolved immediately. A sort of health risk. I've occasionally tried to …

Cookie bite hearing loss is more or less fixable, not CAPD. If you have both (which OP sounded like they did, or at least sounded like it was worth investigating) then you can fix …

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/auditory-processing-disorder/ Get a full audiogram and also ask them to look for cookie bite hearing loss. It's fixable.

Sure, they can raise prices but the customers who paid £350,000 for their charming holiday cottage won't pay £35 for a cup of coffee. The house prices are so out of touch with the …

Yes, of the six letters lost from the English alphabet, thorn and yogh are probably the most consequential for the spelling mess. In this, though, we can safely blame the French. ;…

Yep. It meant croquet lawn, basically. It's from Pall Mall (ultimately, ball hit / palla malleus) - the place Charles II played lawn games and around which fashionable people would…

The Forth Bridge is a very long bridge that is permanently being painted. "Like painting the Forth Bridge" is a job that (feels like it) will never end. https://idioms.thefreedicti…

I work 24h/w (TWT) for my employer. I did this by... saying that's what I could do when they offered me the job. (There are some specific personal circumstances that prevent me fro…

It's ITS derived but the nearer referent is Material via Penguin Book covers from around 1960 to 1975, like the classic Hare Sitting Up: https://www.flickr.com/photos/joekral/23148…

For my one-woman-band projects I use: Github for repos and static hosting Gandhi for domains S3 & Cloudfront for assets Fortrabbit or Digital Ocean also for hosting Runway for ML a…

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Ah, downvoted. ;) Sorry HN! Of course I meant that it's actually just a complete coincidence that so many women leave tech after having children. We all just choose this completely…

Years ago on a large project with many trainee and junior contributors, I had a sandbox.css as the last css file. Juniors could try out new things and add in naive fixes for bugs. …

I work three days a week (UK). It's totally possible but you're right that it does constrain where you work. Smaller companies where you can talk directly to the boss is the thing.…

I still can't get over the part where multiple keys just fell right off the keyboard. And you can't put them back on - the whole top case has to be replaced. Sometimes you get a le…