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Rather than going cold turkey, I’ve found it much more effective to find ways to reduce my engagement e.g by turning off notifications for all platforms, unfollowing friends, group…

Rather than going cold turkey on Social Media, I’ve found it more effective to reduce the amount of content I’m exposed to e.g. for Facebook unfollowing all groups, turning off all…

I've been reading Berry's The Unsettling of America and am finding it a very comforting counterpoint to my career in tech and associated feelings of burnout.

Jira Agile already includes this functionality for Software Development projects. A Board is created for these projects which exposes issues in this kind of interface.

The article raises some Interesting points, even if all conflated under the banner of 'everyone should code' being wrong. "Not everyone enjoys coding" Sure, in which case there's n…

The phrase is a little crude but I see no reason for it to cause offence to any particular gender more than another.

I've use a poor man's shell script that does pretty much this and works on OSX https://gist.github.com/1144996

Remember that these are the guys that rated 2008's toxic bonds AAA. Does what they say really matter?

You need Visual Basic for that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU

Unfortunately, "Open Source" is easier to market than "Free Software". The real benefits of true free software evidence themselves in the end and that's what counts, not what you c…

Oh cool, it'll be interesting to see if that makes a switch more compelling.

I disagree, Viper mode is a very thin imitation of a few Vim commands. Slightly too thin for my liking, even on the most compatible of modes :p Besides, to really experience the be…

Wonderful project, it seems I'm not the only one who was reluctant to switch to Emacs just for org-mode.

All good points, I find summarization especially useful. In this case, since I've actually finished my degree, I just wanted to flick through a bunch of these on the train (without…

MongoEngine just brings some structure back to MongoDB to make it easier to work with and reduce bugs in your code. This doesn't mean to say that it imposes strict mappings, you ar…