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Never mind "vibecoding" (whatever it is) - quite a few free, paid or subscription apps can actually be improved for your own purposes by recreating them in a spreadsheet.

Could it actually be significantly lower than $5? Isn't the real benefit not the money, but that the payment creates a bit of friction plus a paper trail tied to an individual? You…

Hmm - that's a point. Thanks.

> IRL you can actually grab the middle of the plate to move it Really wouldn't recommend it though, all sorts of consequences for the food (if present), your hand, the hygiene of t…

It's not just that I haven't upgraded my Mac, but also I'm actively avoiding buying a new or refurbished one until (if) they fix all this stuff, because there will be no way to dow…

Although I don't use iNaturalist that often (because I don't want the hassle of photographing the species I definitely know) I'm always conscious of the fact it has a relatively mo…

Firstly, I really liked the way you wrote your blog post. FWIW, I experimented with dark theme extensions (paid and free) and gave up on them after a while: it just all felt a bit …

If this really is attributable to ADHD (and I’m sceptical) perhaps the opposite is those of us with (very mild, undiagnosed) OCD who insist on cleaning our tabs up several times a …

Some Moleskine cahier notebooks are wrapped in a paper sleeve that has a ruler printed on the back. Inches on one edge; centimetres on the other (a slight improvement for non-Ameri…

EDIT: hmm, actually the screenshots on Apple.com show a card with a chip, so how come contactless doesn’t work? Deliberately disabled? —- Wearing my ecology hat, you could argue if…

(UK reader here too). You could well be right, though I have a couple of theories why they Apple haven't rolled it out here: - maybe they think it'll just be too messy, having to m…

What's also sad about this is all the e-waste; everything is massively over engineered, loads of unnecessary radio chips, having to build it all to handle pairing, wifi logins, fir…

Yes.. bought a Miele Complete C3 Auto Comfort Boost getting on for a decade ago. Really nicely designed. The one bit of 'questionable' tech it has is a remote control in the handle…

There's a lot of interesting stuff in here – e.g. the Polish trains and the ventilators. Though I wish he'd tone it down a little occasionally. (This is why I'm not an activist.) I…

On the one hand, this was a lab based study, so doesn't reflect their diet in the real world. Let's hope nothing further up the food chain eats crickets in large quantities. You kn…

As I think I’ve posted previously, they’re one of those companies that have gone to great lengths to made themselves impossible to contact. Try finding a way to get in touch with t…

TLDR/advertorial halfway through: “But we at Synaptics think that we’ve met those challenges.”

One addiction to watch out for is the desire to read articles about other people's attempts to conquer their phone addiction. They seemed to start about 2-3 years ago - surely we h…

I stopped after a few seconds because I thought will staring at a black circle just give me eye strain (again)?

A lot of people are focusing on the feeds etc, but I think the genius of this is that no-one can start a conversation with anybody else.

How about each time you post it replies with an advertisement? (although that would just increase costs...)

(as a PHP web developer...) This is interesting, though of course it's only a partial picture: it doesn't talk about database optimisation or caching, and most of web development e…

Newton, apparently. But it’s subscription. https://newtonhq.com/

An observation: I switched to mainly reading my email in a text client (vi-cmdg, which is a fork of cmdg, a Gmail client that uses the API rather than IMAP - the fork has vim keybi…

I do a mix of both. Top posting when I’m making a general comment, but if I’m responding to several questions, I pare the original mail back as much as possible and reply underneat…