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rackforms

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    Comment #26712312

    Personally, it's much easier for me to be invested in a task when what I'm doing is 'interesting' to me. Almost always and ironically, when something's interesting to me it's usual…

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    Comment #25945633

    Id like to propose an alternative to the alternative posed in the article: Years ago I was tasked with building dozens of basic web forms. Immediately recognizing the inherit silli…

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    Comment #25647573

    Ignoring the odd turn of this topic turning into a grievance for login and account access lol, from my read of https://www.goodcheapandfast.com/articles/best-noise-cancell... I'd o…

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    Comment #24828661

    Great feedback but yeah, big picture we're talking pretty small numbers. The 10 (or so) spam accounts posted about 30 times. The longest lasting survived a weekend, after which I e…

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    Comment #24823329

    Yuuuuuuup lol, under penalty for almost a decade now. In my case I had a forum (remember those!) in support of my software product. Bots would occasionally create accounts and post…

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    Comment #24367062

    No association what so ever to 'em but I so dearly love what they do, I'd encourage users to donate to keep them going healthy and strong! https://letsencrypt.org/donate/

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    Comment #22141822

    Consider the following from personal experience: If you rank highly on Google search as I once did you may become the target of malicious actors trying to leach from your ranking. …

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    Comment #20896633

    Interesting. The recent 1903 update has a significant flaw where any disconnection from an RDP session (I work remote) completely resets all window positions. I was saved by this w…

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    Comment #20556933

    It's been absolutely fascinating to watch the YouTube v. community drama play out. I think many forget the exact same situation has been and continues to play out for Alphabets oth…

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    Comment #18372143

    Yeah, looking for I should qualify in overall presentation yes. My comment was more a remark on the de-noise Apple's default camera app applies. Again, I'd check out that image I l…

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    Comment #18371873

    The basic point and shoot camera tests are fascinating. A cursory glance shows the Pixel 3's camera the best of the bunch, sometimes by far . That said, as an iPhone user it's anno…

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    Comment #15615238

    Leading by example, the author's site makes no external connections of any sort.

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    Comment #15614519

    If you're on iOS you should try my Podcast client, SkipCast. http://skipcast.net/ The marquee feature and indeed, the app's name, is for this exact reason. Large buttons make skipp…

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    Comment #15240778

    Blenders such a great tool! Just donated and created a quick-start video for anyone interested: https://youtu.be/q0PMNISK0KY [Edit, somehow dropped h from [h]ttps in link)

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    Comment #13791422

    Neat! My favorite way to show the impossibly large scale of our universe: http://spaceengine.org/ . Set your speed to 10 light years per second and watch the Andromeda galaxy just …

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    Comment #13477140

    That's great news, and can only lead to, if nothing else, better informed users and a more engaged developer.

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    Comment #13408442

    Yes, and I should have said as much.

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    Comment #13408439

    A valid question. So I've never done any "SEO" work on the site outside of Google's own recommendations with regard to site content, ease of use, etc. In other words no link buildi…

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    Comment #13407774

    I've got a long history here, stretching all the way back to 2007. At that time 80% of my traffic was organic, and most importantly, was spread equally between MSN, Yahoo, Google, …

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    Comment #13338688

    The point being made is your house is on fire and the firefighters show up with an ice cream cone. It's a lovely gesture in the right context, but we've got way bigger problems at …

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    Comment #13338340

    It's perception I'm talking about, the real damage being done by releasing this type of tone-deaf product at the same time good, hardworking and long-time users can no longer affor…

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    Comment #13338257

    How is Tim Cook still CEO of Apple? Forget sales for a moment and just consider the damage Apple's brand is suffering. $300 books, headphone jacks, unreliable cloud services, misse…

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    Comment #13221712

    I positively adore Firebug, with the DOM panel alone being worth its weight in gold. As far as our new environment: The scratchpad seems like a neat tool for larger code 'experimen…

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    Comment #13053284

    My brother, a comparatively well paid teacher in the Midwest desperately wants but cannot afford a new MacBook Pro. At the same time his school and many others are awash in perfect…

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    Comment #12894472

    https://www.rackforms.com Started in 2007, profitable every year since. Web-based form and application creation software offered both as a stand-alone purchase or fully operational…