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About 6 years ago, the company [0] that owns most of the local newspapers in my state did a "mobile first" redesign of their website ... which actually was a "mobile ONLY" redesign…

I am glad I'm not the only person who has had this thought, and I think it every time I see how many people some of these random tech companies employ. Those are the kinds of emplo…

I’m in my early 40s. I know a guy from my college years who is now making a TON of money because he got into COBOL development early in his career and most of his peers are now in …

Similar story for me. I went to college at Auburn, which is located in eastern Alabama about 20 miles from the Eastern/Central timezone border. Half of our broadcast TV stations ca…

Disclaimer: not in the EU, but have lived through some natural disasters that involved power loss for extended periods of time. So this is some kind of general advice. If you own y…

This is an excellent comment that really does distill down what an EM is supposed to be. As someone who's been on all sides of this (currently an EM, been a tech lead and an indivi…

I just sold my 11 year old Hitachi plasma TV a few months ago. Honestly, despite its age it had the best picture quality of all my TVs until I bought an OLED to replace it. The big…

> This whole comment section is pretty frustrating. I agree. The amount of misinformation and/or active disinformation in this comment section is horrifying and disheartening. > My…

One of the big reasons I have always like CDE/Motif was that it, to me, is the epitome of function over form when it comes to a desktop UI and widget toolkit. It's actually the sam…

> But then if you were spending 90% of your time online as a teen/early 20s it's not that surprising on a second thought. You know, this is a very enlightening point. I never reall…

A few years back I was going through some old floppy disks I found in a box and, on one of them, I found a screenshot I took of my desktop circa winter of 2000. In it was a window …

20 years ago or so I wrote a LiveJournal client that used the XML-RPC interface. At the time the choices were that or an older custom text interface. The XML-RPC interface was more…

That makes sense. I remember hearing a story while I was out there of a race car driver that got ticketed doing like 130mph. His argument was that, for him , that was a reasonable …

Around that same, the US implemented the National Maximum Speed Law [0], more commonly known at the "55mph speed limit" for the same reason. It is widely regarded as one of the lea…

I don't know why it isn't being mentioned. I am not in the Bay Area myself, but about half of my friends there have relocated in the last couple years. A bunch to Washington or Ore…

Very similar experience here. Like you, I'd heard my fair share of HOA horror stories, so my first home was in a non-HOA neighborhood. * One house near the entrance was bordering o…

Jira is just infuriating. It is super configurable, but that configurability comes the cost of making it so ridiculously complicated almost to the point of unusability. See: "how d…

What I usually recommend at that point is that users do one of two things: 1. Switch to a hosted solution like Shopify for actual order processing, inventory, etc and keep Wordpres…

Not a bad question at all. It's all about what the client needs. The advice I give on this subject these days is that Wordpress is fine to use for a blog or a very basic, low traff…

I've done some Wordpress consulting work in the past. I wouldn't say I hate Wordpress. I advocate for it's use in some cases! I think it is a fantastic piece of software for what i…

To me it's analogous to buying a house. If you buy a house over a certain age, especially one that's changed hands several times, there's a pretty fair chance someone died in it. Y…

I've lived in four of the top 10 "most rainy" cities on the list. They way it normally happens in all of them is that you'll have a bunch of sunny days, then a day where you might …

One of the reasons rail trails are fairly popular is because it preserves the railroad right-of-way for potential future use. Even if the rails are removed and pavement put down, i…

I once made a homebrew GraphLink parallel port cable so that I could upload games and programs to my TI graphing calculator. Made it a lot easier to write programs than to tap them…

I remember seeing an SGI Octane [0] at Comdex. I think it was 1997 or 98? I was still in high school, but I remember thinking that it was just the absolute coolest thing ever. When…