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This is actually an explicit decision, designed to maintain consistency of the user experience across GOV.UK services in terms of information architecture and content design. It's …

An employee's use of a company-provided communication channel like Slack isn't covered by GDPR, but the company is liable for the content that's stored in their Slack account. Unde…

Vaguely related: there's a great episode of the 99% Invisible podcast [1] about how two specific ice cream truck jingles are used to help deal with Taipei dealing with trash dispos…

I don't agree with working like this, but I'd expect that you're generally going to get marginal gains from each extra hour worked (up to a point of exhaustion or burnout), especia…

I think you're confusing the who the "user" is in this case. It's not Joe Bloggs out on the internet who wants to see fresh content on your site; it's you, the web developer, worki…

Regarding (Slack/4)... I believe that toomuchtodo is talking about the following features within Slack: * Stars: the ability to privately star individual messages (so you can easil…

I can see this being a really nice idea to use across a team, if such a thing was offered. A few use-cases / benefits: * An agile team could use this as part of their retrospective…

JSON API [1] is an attempt to standardise the request and response formats for JSON APIs, and it supports an extension which permits multiple operations in a single request [2]. Fa…

I took the article as to be more a case of using Redis as an example of a system which is reaching the limits of performance _given the current state of the kernel it's running on_…

I saw this, but decided to donate anyway.

Same here with the Slack integration: clicked on the link and got a "We couldn't find any hook with this id" response back.

That's because it's the lowest common denominator. Anyone with Git on their system can use the command line and follow along. If you choose to use a GUI for your explanation, then …

The PATCH version is the "number of commits since last MINOR release (will be reset at 0 when releasing MINOR)" — https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/12/21/semantic-versio...