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> What's the confusion here? Acknowledging that developers are in fact customers, is often where it comes undone in my experience. In a lot of places, only revenue paying people ar…

My very first purchase on eBay was to buy a used copy of Visual Basic 6 Enterprise Edition sometime while I was in school. Then for a period of time I lost the physical CD it came …

This has been the case for ever. I recall opting to use Windows Server 2003 over XP back in the day for desktop/workstation use. Could even enable XP themes IIRC.

It’s been a while (a decade?!) but if I recall correctly Capistrano did this for rails deployments too, didn’t it?

It’s not a simple plug in and stream product, but ever since replacing Sonos with Control4 we’ve been incredibly happy. Josh on top of it for voice and it “just works”. As I said, …

Half-Life, and Valve generally, were such a big part of my life in the late 90s and early 2000s. Exploring this definitely brings back a heap of memories. Not sure if it is new or …

I found some info on setting up DNS for other providers, but it isn’t officially supported and for something as important as email I don’t want them randomly breaking it one day, w…

We just went down the rabbit hole of trying to migrate to Microsoft 365 Family with custom domain. You (officially) need to move your domain to GoDaddy, which was unfortunately a b…

Mercedes EQA.

v11 update was the straw that broke this Tesla owner's back. We just purchased a new EV from another manufacturer and are selling the Tesla. I'm so glad there are an increasingly l…

There is an expectation that during core working hours people will be somewhat responsive. That will differ org to org, and perhaps in your org there are no set working hours. In t…

I’m talking about the opposite where you are the boss. I don’t send emails at night so my staff don’t feel the expectation to be constantly checking and replying to me. Just becaus…

It sets the expectation for a lot of people that they should be checking and responding to messages at all hours. I’m a night owl, I like to do thought work after the day of busy m…

My current box of books that I recommend to new managers on my teams: Technology Specific: * An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (Will Larson) * Accelerate: The Sc…

The town of Mallacoota is essentially surrounded by a moat of fire at the moment. The residents are trapped inside this ring, one part of which is the ocean. The Navy, as well as s…

Have you checked out Sorbet?

I was complaining about this with a coworker today. AirDrop 1 was flawless, since 2.0 it has been more often than not unreliable between Macs. I’d love to know if anyone knows the …

Up, a relatively new digital bank in Australia does this already - I had my card setup in Wallet about 2 minutes after signing up online, a full week before the physical card arriv…

Nope I’m the same, my 2018 MBA keyboard is the best keyboard I’ve used, and I loved the old Thinkpads too. The 2016 MBP keyboard on the other hand is terrible.

I print my stuff on actual paper and do a manual proof read when I think I’m done. I’m constantly surprised by how many spelling mistakes I still find during final proof reading th…

TFS/VSTS/DevOps (Microsoft)

I check hacker news regularly and this was the first time I saw it. Reposts aren’t inherently bad. I’m glad it was reposted and I’ve now had the chance to learn about it.

DevOps toolchain you've got covered. Your pipelines are pretty neat. One thing I really like about GitLab is seeing pipeline errors in the merge request. For instance, we have rspe…