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Who of the three do you feel speaks much faster naturally?

Ditto. I love his ideology, and have watched a few of his videos over the years, but his lengthy roundabout style of delivery doesn't keep me engaged. Super glad he does what he do…

Woof, yes! Though I'm glad Heroku remains, and I ought to also be glad that it has been stable all these years, …it's clearly neglected. The very first interaction I have with Hero…

The WWDC keynote is a software, not hardware, announcement…?

Interesting take–– I feel the total opposite; I love the UI.

“Work has continued apace on my existing projects and client work of course.” (Emphasis mine)

Oof, hard disagree. I absolutely hated writing Objective-C for years– I felt like I had to write unnecessary 'glue' with header files, handling of 'nil' was always jarring, and squ…

FYI: I just get redirected to an "Oops" (/not-found) page when I try to sign-up. Tried twice

The support chat transcript is so uncomfortable to read– the person on the other end 'at Three' (aka a contact centre on the other side of the world, contracted out at the lowest p…

Yeah, this stood out as odd to me also– "these are who you highlight?"

Their offering perfectly fit the bill for what we needed, but they turned us away; citing a requirement of transacting €5M per year, despite us needing a payment handler /for launc…

Anecdotally: I've been looking to get answers from Stripe, about fees-related questions that either make my proposed use viable or unviable, and I've received nothing but copied & …

Just some context: Spotify's official iOS library used to serve streaming [unencrypted, 'raw'] PCM data to the app for playback[1] "The good old days" [1] Trace of this, from 2013:…

"If you can't write it down you can't do it." - elaborate?

This doesn't work for me FYI; I get the same paywalled page. Fresh browsing session, logged in to Google account.

What is 'VMT'?

Can attest to being bitten by an unexpected tax bill, after a previous employer years before had the wrong tax info for me.

Delusions of grandeur

I find that a lot of sites seems to be designed on, and looked at internally on, large-screen desk setups (e.g. 27" iMac), so everything looks somewhat huge on smaller laptop-size …

Friends was also shot on film, and cropped to 4:3 for broadcast. Like Firefly, Friends also had unintentional things (crew, microphones, un-dressed sets, etc) appear in the edges i…

Ease. If you're already logged into Google, it's essentially a one click process.

I once had an ‘Intempo Rebel’ radio[1], about a decade ago, which had the selling point that it would record songs, from radio, as MP3, without any ads or DJs. It actually worked, …

VSCode is the most sluggish app I use on my 2019 Mac, by far. I genuinely don't understand how people can say that it feels responsive and like-native, unless they have much more p…

I remember reading from an authoritative source (Probably the Apple Support website, but I don’t remember alas) that this is done to retain functionality of wireless-based system s…