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Reading this, I am immediately reminded of Al Bundy in Married with children, isn't he An American hero quite similar to Arthur Dent? Other than that I always thought of the Show K…

I think it is important to stress that both, color _and_ shape should be visible distinctive, and as you say it is important that the color palette is chosen in a way that even if …

I have resisted that move for a long time, but this year I moved to using a hosted and managed nextcloud instance for all my file syncing needs. It is run by a small local webhosti…

Thanks for the link, I think I ride with a similar style in the city, but I wasn't aware there is a word for it.

Android Tablets with Mobile Internet are perfectly fine phones. I've used a LTE Samsung tablet exclusively as my only "Smart" phone for a while, and had a Dual-Sim to share the sam…

Looking forward to finally have the i-dont-care-about-cookies add-on for my phone.

Sometimes you get cron jobs with a cheap webhost, so you would not even need to maintain a cheap VPS

Just as satisfying as the git man page generator https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/

Can say from my professional experience, that this is definitely a problem worth solving.

Google-Fonts could be made part of Google-Chrome and would never be downloaded ever again for Chrome Users

Most of the currently popular frameworks follow the pattern of organizations that make the case that "Designers" and "Programmers" need to be strictly separated.

But how to retrigger all jobs that are loading a plugin, when the plugin is updated?

Nice, but I just got myself a Casio F-91W

This is a very simple principle, yet I see it constantly violated in big projects with plenty of redources. Even though it seems obvious, it takes a lot of effort and arguing to ke…

16K $ is quite a mild punishment for a top executive, but I guess the families of those dead, und other harrassment victims will sue for damages after the criminal trial.

I take plenty of trains in Europe, and booking well in advance, I never pay the "full" fare. It is usually quite easy to take advantage of early booking offers.

I've been using cookiecutter for this mostly. But in general I feel like excessive boilerplate is more like a code smell. Reusable code should live in libraries, and frameworks sho…

Watch Movies and channel your favorite Monologues.

I gave Notion a quick try on my Android Handset, but it felt quite slow and unresponsive, adding a subpage gave me a spinning wheel animation, that took a little bit, and trying to…

Probably way more people are dying from car accidents, yet people are starting a major hysteria about a few wolves returning. Millions of cars running through european towns at spe…

This whole proposal sounds just like one that a spoiled teenager would make. Instead of feeling lucky to have a skill highly sought after, and to live in an economy that can afford…

I would speculate (without exact justification) that this is because Americans are nowadays heavily indoctrinated in neoliberalism. Though Europeans are catching up there too.

That sounds basically like a Credit Rating System, similar systems exists in probably every first world country. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_rating

Obsessing about the design of a landing page is like obsessing about the floor layout of a retail space. Sure, it might be interesting and eventually pleasing to look at, but in th…