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retor

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About retor

Not a dev. More like a ... suit without the suit.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #45578646

    Did it take over ownership as well or just the administration of the business?

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    Comment #40405069

    Isn’t Apple already in China? There must be a reason why they are not selling much there already, but perhaps they could dump prices and increase marketing. Although China and US i…

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    Comment #32493074

    Hehe, I guess I was too late to party to experience the good ol' days. It has a good rating in app store today. Better than Slack, even. And although there are probably many reason…

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    Comment #32492822

    > I have never seen cross-platform UI that would work and/or look close enough to native. But wouldn't knowing that require that you investigated the tech choices of all the apps y…

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    Comment #28313337

    I experience them as very different. Huddles are more like the audio calls Slack already had, but without the channel notifications. It lacks the auto silence that Discord has, so …

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    Comment #27672361

    It's not tricking, but it is deceptive since they haven't chosen to submit. The current mental model of forms are to save data entries when you actively submit. Yes, there are some…

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    Comment #26829840

    Yeah, but that is only necessary if the page contains ads or ads-related resources, right? That’s how I interpret the previous quote.

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    Comment #24397312

    I've been meaning to try https://libro.fm . Maybe this is the nudge I need.

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    Comment #23915175

    Thought about the same for a while. I didn’t compare them much, but I was leaning towards write.as. Maybe something to check out.

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    Comment #23914981

    I searched for something similar. Considered Caddy and Nginx/Apache with markdown plugins, but wanted to be able to create and edit pages/files and made a small script with Flask i…

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    Comment #18169481

    Maybe. But time zones are difficult for remote teamwork, and crossing borders also have legal, language, culture and tax issues. Many remote positions on job boards are “US only”. …

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    Comment #17604077

    I mentally added a comma between “on-site NAS” and “Google Drive”. Might be wrong.

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    Comment #17318285

    I couldn't find an easy way to edit textfiles stored on github from my iPhone or iPad. But if you use Dropbox, there are several apps that were made specifically to write posts and…

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    Comment #16951389

    Oh, no! I was totally fooled by the fake verified icon :/

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    Comment #16781229

    I miss MeeGo

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    Comment #15499191

    That's one spacey metaball! (sorry...)

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    Comment #15274475

    This is genius! SSCG: Static site clock generator. * Fast (no server side scripts running on get requests) * Safe (no server side scripts running on get requests) * Version control…

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    Comment #14777474

    Wouldn't anyone with access to my two factor authenticated Google/gmail account be able to reset most of my passwords anyway? The biggest risk is perhaps a rogue Chrome extensions …

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    Comment #14777050

    Google passwords. I trust their engineering, it's free, passwords are accessible as long as I have a browser and it comes with Chrome. Negatives: I can't do backups, easily migrate…