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Off-topic: just one look at that homepage, the icons in particular, brought back such fond memories of the pre-flat design time. Those halcyon days when it was normal for buttons t…

This reminds me of Dense Discovery ( https://www.densediscovery.com/ ) and Tom Scott's newsletter ( https://pad26.aweb.page/subscribe ).

Perhaps they thought such a clever person wouldn't be suitable for a cat, since cats like to have "owners" they can actually train.

Nowadays they're just called data visualisation engineers.

Is "Trung Nguyen" the same company as "Trung Nguyen Legend"? Dropped by their cafe in Hanoi (old quarter) and loved the no. 5 blend (at least I think that's what I got — memory is …

Context: I still drink, but significantly less than I used to; I don't think I ever qualified for an alcoholism diagnosis. I'm also very much into coffee, tea, and good food: every…

Two things make Google Sheets infinitely more useful than Excel to me on a daily basis: - Regex support in find & replace and regexextract(). - FX rates as a formula instead of as …

When you purchase Bitwig, is it a one-off, rather than working on a subscription model? Sad to say that's rather refreshing if so.

I had a long conversation about this a week ago. My worry is that "hacking" things — in the sense of "finding a way to use a program in a way that the developer didn't directly int…

Could it be the [Forgotten Employee: The American Dream]( https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/ )? > After 30 days, I became convinced that I was a forgotten, non digest…

Google Docs does this.

Any pointers on getting started with the postfix/dovecot method?

Absolutely agree. This is why my closest friends today are those I met in primary and secondary school: we were all there, though we didn't always want to be; we all had homework t…

Strongly disagree. I'm Canadian-Hong Kong, grew up in Hong Kong, and have family in China. Chinese citizens (by which I mean only mainland China, and excluding Hong Kong, Macau, an…